PROVIDENCE, RI – One of two men charged in federal court in April with stealing mail from United States Postal Service collection boxes in and around Providence and Pawtucket by “fishing” out envelopes, today admitted his role in a conspiracy that resulted in the theft of mail and of more than $97,600 worth of checks from envelopes deposited in the collection boxes. Continue reading
United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that four employees of the United States Postal Service were indicted for various crimes in connection with the distribution of marijuana. Continue reading
Deputies with the Collier County Sheriff’s Office are looking for four men who they said robbed several US post office employees at gunpoint Wednesday morning. Continue reading
HILLSBORO, Ore. — An Amazon package delivery driver admitted stealing a package off a porch in the Aloha area, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Continue reading
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – For many residents in one Queens community it hasn’t been a matter of when the mail will arrive, it’s been a question of if their packages will ever be delivered.
The mail emergency in the Rockaways has been going on for nearly a year.
Now, one man whose life literally depends on receiving medication through the mail is getting action after CBS2 demanded answers from the U.S. Postal Service.
Joe Coughlan says he can’t believe what a difference a few minutes made after he shared his story on CBS2.
“Packages that have literally been missing for months are suddenly showing up here,” Coughlan told CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez Monday.
Source: USPS Finally Delivers Mail To Bedridden Queens Man In Need Of Medication « CBS New York
From the National Association of Letter Carriers:
The National Election Committee met on November 30 at NALC National Headquarters in Washington, DC, to review the election-result appeals that the committee received in November from two NALC members in the 2018 election of NALC national officers. The results of the national election were published in the November 2018 Postal Record. Continue reading
ST. LOUIS – The US Postal Inspection Service is offering up to a $50,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest, and conviction of a suspect wanted for Thursday night’s armed robbery at the Richmond Heights Post Office. Continue reading
Business Community Responds to USPS Task Force Report: Recommendations Likely to Make the Situation Worse for Prices, Services & Affordable Access; Focus Should be on Reforming the Prefunding of Retiree Benefits
Washington, D.C. (December 4, 2018) – The Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service (C21), an organization of public and private companies, trade associations and other industry groups which rely on the U.S. Postal System to do business, today raised grave concerns with the recommendations outlined by President Trump’s Task Force on the United States Postal Service.
Art Sackler, manager of C21, released the following statement on behalf of coalition members:
“While we’re pleased to see the Task Force agrees that the Postal Service should not be privatized, the reality is that many of the report’s recommendations will functionally privatize mail and package delivery by impairing the USPS’ ability to deliver everywhere and every day at an affordable price. Driving up prices will accelerate the departure of mail from an already declining base, and, at the very least, damage the USPS’ package business, which has been its lone and very profitable bright spot in recent years. If the Task Force’s price strategies become reality, they will decrease the Postal Service’s revenue and compromise its capacity to serve all of its delivery points.
“Among other things, we believe the ‘elasticity models’ relied upon by the Task Force are outdated and inaccurate. Other recommendations, such as recycling the previously rejected ‘fully distributed costing’ model, separating packages from mail and diluting the universal service obligation, are generally problematic – perhaps acutely so for rural Americans, who stand to lose the most if competitors and customers are incentivized to more rapidly divert USPS volume out of the system. Less volume means less revenue, and compromises mail and package delivery, which is especially crucial for millions of rural Americans who rely on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver medications, food, clothes and communications to every citizen, no matter how remote.
“What the Administration truly needs to do is work with Congress to reform the prefunding of USPS retiree health benefits. The existing mail and packaging price caps remain fully functional if retiree health prefunding is adequately addressed through bipartisan legislation that enjoys broad stakeholder support and is currently pending in the U.S. House and Senate. By lifting tens of billions of dollars from the USPS balance sheet, at no cost to taxpayers, the Postal Reform Acts would help stabilize the Postal Service for several years – giving everyone, especially Congress, breathing room to come up with long-term reforms.”
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The Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service (C21) consists of public and private companies and industry associations representing newspapers, advertisers, catalogers, e-commerce, parcels, greeting cards, financial services, telecommunications, insurance, paper, printing, technology, envelope manufacturing, and mail services, which understand the essential role of USPS and want it sustained for the future. C21 broadly represents an industry generating $1.4 trillion in sales and supporting 7.5 million private sector jobs, and supports both versions of the Postal Reform Act (S. 2629/H.R.6076), which would stabilize USPS in the short-to-medium term.
Source: Business Community Responds to USPS Task Force Report – Postal Coalition
From the American Postal Workers Union: Continue reading
