USPS wants employees to help design its next generation of delivery vehicles. The Postal Service’s surging package volume and aging fleet have prompted the organization to begin developing ideas for newer, better vehicles. One goal: to take advantage of the automotive industry’s recent advances in safety, fuel efficiency, design, and convenience features, as well as…
By OSHA’s Campaign to Prevent Heat Illness in Outdoor Workers When you’re working in the heat, safety comes first. With the OSHA Heat Safety Tool, you have vital safety information available whenever and wherever you need it – right on your mobile phone. The App allows workers and supervisors to calculate the heat index for…
The Postal Service is focused on growing revenue, but the organization remains stymied by its outdated business model, CFO Joe Corbett told the nation’s top chief financial officers recently. “We need to continue doing what we are doing — and we need legislation from Congress to change our business model so that we can be…
The United States Postal Service is proposing to close or reduce hours of operation of the post office in the center of town at 10 Lonetown Road — across from town hall. A community meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 9, at 1 p.m. at town hall in order for residents ask questions and…
(July 2, 2014) DALLAS, TEXAS — At its June 20-23, 2014 annual meeting, the US Conference of Mayors (USCM) adopted a pair of resolutions endorsing postal banking, co-signed by eight mayors from six states. Their goal is to bring $1 trillion of job-creating economic stimulus primarily to low-income neighborhoods, over the next decade, at zero…
Friday, July 4 is Independence Day, one of the six days each year postal facilities are required to fly the POW-MIA flag, but because the holiday falls on a non-business day, the POW-MIA flag is raised on the last business day before July 4. The flag and its display at postal facilities honors the sacrifices…
In a saga comparable to Bleek House, Charles Dickens’ classic novel about a legal case that would never end, Bill Moore, a Texas businessman, has waged his own never-ending legal war against the United States government. At the center of the drama, which has now dragged on for 25 years, is an agency that prides…
Postal Service plans to cut Norfolk mail processing The U.S. Postal Service plans to eliminate all mail processing at the Church Street station next year, an official said Wednesday. The retail counter, however, will remain open, spokeswoman Freda Sauter wrote in an email. In 2011, the Postal Service announced that it wanted to move all…
