Dallas NALC President Puts Abusive Supervisors on Notice

Fed up with an endless stream of calls from letter carriers pleading for help from abusive supervisors and managers, NALC Branch 132 President Sid Simmons is putting aggressive supervisors and managers on notice (again). Sid writes: Effective immediately and without exception, we expect you to treat us with dignity and respect at all times. We…

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Fellow Americans, Don’t Let Our Ignorance Destroy Us

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree If we allow the GOP to destroy the United States Postal Service (America’s Oldest institution), it could mean no longer having your mail delivered to your door, rural customers having to go into town to pickup their mail, and exorbitant costs added to mailing a letter, and therefore,…

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Hate needs ‘cancel’ in postal branch

(July 4, 2014) On June 12, Lamar Watkins entered the U.S Post Office branch at 484 Main St. to check his mail box and noticed what appeared to be a hangman’s noose, dangling from a display of stars-and-striped top hats in the employee section, but in clear view of customers. Stunned that one of the…

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Postal Retirement Q&A July 2014

Please take the time to recognize our VETERANS on this 4th of July…to them we OWE SO MUCH!! June was a REALLY CRAZY month….busy, did a Rural Carrier State Convention on retirement…..So many questions….so little time, but one great group of employees. So I get a phone call this week and a postmaster is just…

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The post office isn’t a dead letter: Opinion

By Dr. Walter Brasch Unless your life is centered upon an iPhone, an iPad, and an iEverything else, there is a possibility you may have actually bought a postage stamp, written a letter, and mailed it. Contrary to popular opinion, snail-mail isn’t dead. Every day, the U.S. Postal Service handles about 660 million pieces of…

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Postal Service to close dozens of mail centers

The Hill - Opinion

(July 3, 2014) The U.S. Postal Service said this week that it would begin shuttering dozens of mail processing centers next year, a move it said was necessary because of congressional inaction on postal reform. The USPS, which has lost more than $28 billion since the start of fiscal 2011, says that a new round…

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USPS Employees Used Travel Cards for Grocery Shopping, Eating Out

(July 3, 2014) U.S. Postal Service employees spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past few years on unauthorized cash withdrawals and personal purchases using government travel cards, according to a new report. USPS’ inspector general found a lack of oversight allowed employees to take between April 2012 and March 2013 more than $215,000…

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