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Canada Post and Hamilton square off in landmark mail delivery case
It’ll be a historic day in Hamilton courts on Tuesday as Canada Post faces off against the city over where it can put super mailboxes.
Canada Post is installing community mailboxes across 
Hamilton Mountain as part of a nationwide plan to phase out urban door-to-door mail delivery.
But the city wants a say in how they do it and has gone to court to assert those rights. Canada Post rejects this notion, saying federal legislation gives it a mandate to deliver the mail, and that trumps municipal powers.
The fight is being watched by many other municipalities across the country, all of which are facing similar plans from the postal service to install super mailboxes.
Canada Post is already facing a lawsuit from a union representing postal workers that wants the Federal Court to declare the cancellation of home delivery unconstitutional. And a group of Montreal-area mayors last week said they were considering joining the action, accusing Canada Post of ignoring their concerns.
In the face of declining traditional mail volumes, Canada Post announced a plan in December 2013 to end door-to-door delivery and gave itself five years to implement the move to community mailboxes.
Video: New Mexico man in jail after terrorizing mail carrier
Police say Jered Leatherman is accused of frightening a postal worker by following her and cutting her off while she…
Posted by Roswell Daily Record on Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Connecting rural India: Network-connected handheld devices for postal delivery soon
NEW DELHI: The Department of Posts is likely to soon start a Rs 1,370-crore mega project that will allow India’s 1.3 lakh postmen in rural regions to use network-connected handheld terminals for postal delivery.
The project, awarded last year to a consortium that includes state-run Telecom Consultants of India (TCIL), system integrator Ricoh India and Hyderabad-based VisionTek, which provides handheld devices, was delayed due to unavailability of components.
Big IT companies such as HP and Wipro were also in the running for the contract rolled out by the ministry of communications & information technology.
“Based on terminal devices on network, the DoP initiative is likely to happen later this month. The project was delayed as the private company took time to deliver the components,” TCIL’s chairman and managing director Vimal Wakhlu told ET.
USPS settles with NLRB on data breach complaint
From Politico:
POSTAL SERVICE SETTLES DATA BREACH LABOR CASE: The U.S. Postal Service agreed to settle an NLRB complaint alleging it refused to bargain with its unions over how to rectify a data breach that compromised personal information for hundreds of thousands of employees.
The issue was a novel one for the board, which, experts say, has rarely, if ever, considered whether employers have a duty to bargain with labor groups over data breaches. The settlement constitutes what is essentially an admission by the Post Office that it had a duty to negotiate with unions over how to address the breach. http://politico.pro/1PzoE6L