U.S. Postal Service pays employee to drive letter carrier who lost license due to DUI

What happens if you lose your license due to a drunk driving arrest, and you have to drive a truck for your job? If you are a U.S. Postal Service employee, your boss just pays somebody else to drive you around for a while. That’s what has happened in Lititz, where James E. Avers, 34,…

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USPS: VPO on wheels – Mobile market offers postal services

The nation’s first mobile Village Post Office (VPO) recently rolled into Dallas District. The “VPO on wheels” is part of the Hummingbird Market, owned by Pam Slate, the widow of a Marine Corps veteran. The market sells food grown by veterans who participate in a farm cooperative, as well as gifts made by veterans. Originally,…

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USPS OIG: Dim Weight, Bright Idea?

Dim weight. Sounds like something you might call your not-so-smart cousin. It’s actually a way to price parcels based primarily on how much space they take up during transport and delivery. FedEx is the first major carrier to announce plans to charge prices based on the dimensional weight of all its ground shipments. Retailers and…

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USPS: Saturday delivery update

Latest proposal would help highway fund House Republicans last week proposed allowing the Postal Service to stop delivering most mail on Saturday and to use the savings to keep the federal Highway Trust Fund from going broke. In a statement, USPS said, “Allowing the Postal Service to implement a five-day mail/six-day package delivery schedule is…

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Pittsburgh ‘Stop Staples’ Rally & Protest – June 17, 2014

STOP STAPLES RALLY & PROTEST Tuesday June 17, 2014 12:00pm – 2:00pm North Hills Village Mall 4801 McKnight Road Pittsburgh, PA 15237 (Click Here for map) Clerk, Maintenance, MVS, Carrier, and Mail Handler Crafts Please stop by before or after work. Sponsored by all 4 Postal Unions and open to the public. All are welcome, bring…

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Reading, Kansas questions permanency of post office plan

While Reading residents are happy the U.S. Postal Service plans to re-establish a post office in the community, they also are concerned about the permanency of that plan. Reading, a town of 231 in Lyon County, lost its post office in May 2011 when an EF-3 tornado barreled through the town, killing one person and…

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Postal officials still not sure of Brookside’s fate

REDLANDS >> While the city and its residents await news on the possible closure of the historic Brookside Avenue Post Office, so are local postal officials. Rumors around town have been swirling that the post office was off the “sale list,” but nothing has yet to be decided. “The status of the office hasn’t changed,”…

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