USPS: First-hand experience – Managers visit Edison call center

Marketing and Consumer and Industry Affairs managers from all seven USPS areas saw customer service first-hand during a recent visit to the Customer Care Center in Edison, NJ, hosted by Consumer and Industry Affairs. The Postal Service has opened four care centers in recent years. Employees at the centers answer calls to 800-ASK-USPS and help…

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Congresswoman Norton Wants PMG to Reverse Changes that Delay Mail and Reconsider Consolidations

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter Norton sent to United States Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe that asks him to reconsider the consolidation of more than 80 mail-processing centers in January 2015 that will delay First-Class and other mail delivery, without public input….

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AUDIO: APWU President Dimondstein Talks to Ed Schultz

Web News Article #: 187-2014 10/17/2014 – In an interview on The Ed Schultz Show on Oct. 16, APWU President Mark Dimondstein explained how USPS plans to lower “service standards” and close 82 mail processing plants would slow mail delivery throughout the country. The cuts would affect every postal patron, regardless of where they live, and would send the Postal Service into…

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VIDEO: Postal Service Battles Illegal Drug Shipments

ROSEVILLE – Roseville Police arrested two suspects in a drug ring that shipped illegal drugs through a local Post Office facility. They say Tim Reimer and Brian Getz based their operation in the Nevada City/Grass Valley area where 141 pounds of processed and wrapped pot was found along with $225,000 in cash. The pot was supposedly…

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Amazon’s grocery service hits Brooklyn starting today

Lately, Amazon’s been playing a bit of back and forth with its services on either coast. What started with retail locations is now extending to its grocery delivery option, AmazonFresh. Folks living in Brooklyn, New York’s Park Slope neighborhood will have access to the service that debuted in Seattle and California starting today, according to…

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U.S. Postal Service hiring in Washington and Idaho

The U.S. Postal Service is hiring for new non-career positions at postal facilities in Washington and northern Idaho. Positions available include city carrier assistants that deliver mail from post offices; postal support employees that work in post offices and mail handler assistants that work in mail processing facilities. These jobs could lead to career positions….

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