APWU: AFL-CIO Endorses Staples Boycott

Web News Article #: 107-14 May 30, 2014 – The ā€˜Donā€™t Buy Staplesā€™ campaign got a significant boost on May 30, when the AFL-CIO notified the APWU it would support the boycott of the office-supply chain. The labor federation is comprised of 56 unions representing 12.5 million members. ā€œOur brothers and sisters in the labor…

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APWU May 30 Press Release: Postal Workers to Protest at Staples Annual Meeting

Company Challenged on No-bid Sweetheart Deal with US Postal Service as 21 San Francisco Post Office Stations Reduce Hours of Service For Immediate Release May 30, 2014 – PALO ALTO — Members of the American Postal Workers Union will protest a no-bid, sweetheart deal with the United States Postal Service on Monday, June 2, immediately…

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APWU May 29 Press Release: Postal Service Cuts Hours at 21 San Francisco Post Offices

USPS Documents Show Hours Reduced at Post Offices Near Staples Stores; Public Postal Counters Are Shrinking, Not Growing, After Secretive Deal with Retail Giant For Immediate Release May 29, 2014 – SAN FRANCISCO ā€“ In the wake of a secretive, sweetheart deal to outsource postal operations to low-wage, high-turnover Staples stores, the U.S. Postal Service…

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APWU: Friday Alert from the Alliance for Retired Americans – May 30, 2014

The Alliance Releases Annual Voting Record Rating Congress On Thursday, the Alliance released its annual report detailing the voting record of every U.S. Representative and Senator on issues important to current and future retirees. The voting record looks at 10 key votes in both the Senate and the House and assigns a ā€œPro-Retireeā€ score for…

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USPS: The next level – CIO Cochrane touts new devices

Letter and rural carriers will soon receive Mobile Delivery Devices (MDDs) to help them perform their jobs more effectively, Chief Information Officer Jim Cochrane told Federal News Radio recently. ā€œItā€™s a smarter device,ā€ Cochrane said. ā€œIt takes it to the next level.ā€ The Postal Service will initially deploy 75,000 MDDs between August and December. ā€œThis…

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USPS OIG: Semiannual Report to Congress

October 1, 2013 – March 31, 2014 The Office of Inspector General is tasked with ensuring efficiency, accountability, and integrity in the U.S. Postal Service. We also have the distinct mission of helping to maintain confidence in the mail and postal system, as well as to improve the Postal Serviceā€™s bottom line. We use audits…

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Village Post Offices ā€” are they worth it for the USPS?

The United States Postal Service introduced yet another program in July 2011 to sell stamps somewhere other than a normal post office. Located primarily in small towns, Village Post Offices have only two missions: to sell booklets of stamps and to have Priority Mail flat-rate boxes available to take. The VPO has no scales to…

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Postal CSI: Preventing crime by mail

WASHINGTON (WUSA9)– Any time the United States mail is used to commit a crime, you can bet the investigators at the National Forensic Lab of the US Postal Inspection Service are analyzing critical evidence. Latent Print Analyst Stephanie Toth offered a demonstration. “This is an Ab Roller box that we got in. They foamed the…

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