MIRAMAR (CBSMiami) â The U.S. Post Office is offering a reward for any information leading to the arrest of people who they say are targeting mail carriers. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering a $15,000 reward. They said, Wednesday, there have been three robberies and one attempted robbery of a carrier in Broward and…
I knew Ralph Nader was coming to town but I had no idea I’d bump into him on my lunch break. While walking round Berkeley I stumbled across a ‘don’t privatize our post offices’ protest, attended by mostly older campaigners who looked like they’d earned their stripes over the years. I got chatting to a…
To the Editor: Analysts of consumer behavior refer to it simply as âthe OâNeill.â Specifically, the OâNeill Point is the threshold at which a relatively minor increase in the price of a commodity reaches some psychological trigger at which a majority of consumers actively seeks out alternatives. But how exactly did Connecticutâs 84th governor get…
(July 29, 2014) The movement to preserve Downtown Berkeleyâs historic post office has garnered national attention, bolstered by a visit from politician and activist Ralph Nader to the post office Tuesday. Following an announcement in April last year, the U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with plans to sell the building that houses the downtown…
(July 28, 2014) Congress is once again engaged in a fight over whether the U.S. Postal Service should deliver mail on Saturdays. But all the wrangling just goes to show that this should be a business decision, not a political decision. The Postal Service has been struggling for years with high labor costs and declining…
The U.S. Postal Service estimates that most of its current fleet of vehicles are going to crap out by 2017. Sure, they pretty it up by saying that the vehicles are ânear or have exceeded their expected service life,â but we all know what that means. Yet the USPS has the same problem as many…
July 15, 2014âNALC is aware of an effort by the Postal Service in different parts of the country to convince customers to agree to change their mode of mail delivery to cluster box or centralized delivery. This page contains the latest information detailing the rights of both postal customers and letter carriers, and we have…
How Priority Mail insurance falls short When the U.S. Postal Service advertises that its Priority Mail service comes with $50 of insurance included, you might assume that it comes with, well, $50 of insurance. But that’s not always the case, and the National Advertising Division (NAD) has asked the Postal Service to make more clear…
