Mail service and Congressional issues are in the news every day.  Below are the latest articles I found.

Postal worker robberies and other mail thefts are becoming a daily event. These are the ones I found today.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The U.S. Postal Service announced they are temporarily suspending operations at the Bluff Park Finance Branch at Shades Mountain Plaza in Birmingham due to unspecified safety concerns.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) first brought this case to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and our Office of Investigations.

On June 11, 2024, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sent its proposed standard on indoor/outdoor heat illness prevention to the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) for review.

For Leave Year 2025 (begins Jan. 11, 2025 and ends Jan. 9, 2026), APWU-represented employees aforementioned are entitled to carryover a maximum of 520 hours of earned annual leave.

As my team and I continue our work and advocate to ensure that the Chokoloskee Postal Office returns to its previous standard of operation, know that I remain committed to holding the U.S. Postal Service accountable in its service of our community."

The program, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year, is based on a simple idea: Postal Service employees know the habits of their customers and the rhythms of their communities and are often the first to notify emergency personnel and render aid when something is wrong.

Postal worker robberies and other mail thefts are becoming a daily event. These are the ones I found today.

Mail service and Congressional issues are in the news every day.  Below are the latest articles I found.

CISO did not take all critical steps necessary to prevent fraudulent access to the PostalEASE application, such as implementing multifactor authentication (MFA) or providing security awareness training to all employees

We performed a self-initiated audit at the Curseen-Morris Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) and three delivery units serviced by the P&DC during the week of February 5, 2023. The delivery units included the Brookland Station, Lammond Riggs Station, and Ward Place Annex located in Washington, DC.