The Fire Island community of Cherry Grove is rallying to keep its tiny post office open. Betty Faraci, the postmistress of the 10-foot-by-10-foot post office, said she hasn’t received a contract renewal for her job this year from the U.S. Postal Service, causing fears that the post office itself — open three days a week…
May 12, 2014 (RARC-IB-14-002) “Big Data” — large, complex datasets combined with sophisticated, powerful analytics — is helping transform science, research, and many industries by providing a level of insights previously unavailable at unprecedented speed. For businesses in particular – including the mail and shipping industries – the knowledge gained from the real-time analysis of…
Published on May 12, 2014 APWU members and supporters ramped up the fight to Stop Staples and its bid to open postal counters in 1,500 stores nationwide at events across the country on April 24, a National Day of Action. Protests were held in 56 locations in 27 states. via “Stop Staples’ National Day of…
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Syracuse, NY – A Central New York postal worker, who captured his battle with a cat on video, won $100,000 on “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” Joe Cassidy, of Baldwinsville, works for the U.S. Postal Service in Syracuse. His showdown with the cat appeared on the show in January. The video, dubbed “Mail Slot Menace,” won…
By David Yao In a May 9, 2014 press release, the Postal Service issued another quarterly press release turning an operating profit (of $261 million) into a loss. The supposed loss, an accounting fiction, was caused entirely by the 2006 law which generates a long-term loan to the Federal treasury, under the guise of “pre-funding”…
Amazon is taking full advantage of the U.S. Postal Service’s commitment to extend its package delivery schedule to Sundays. In November, Amazon announced the availability of Sunday delivery to Prime customers located in two cities – New York and LA, and it is now expanding the service to an additional 15 cities in the U.S.,…
