Hashknife Pony Express keeps history alive with mail delivery

By Amy Edelen – January 22, 2015 The Hashknife Pony Express, the longest sanctioned U.S. Postal Service Pony Express route in the world, will be making its annual trip to Scottsdale on Jan. 30 to deliver mail and celebrate the Old West with a free event. The Hashknife riders will embark on a rigorous three-day,…

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Video: USPS 2014 Holiday Package Delivery

Published on Jan 23, 2015 The United States Postal Service delivered 524 Million packages during the month of December, 2014, 18% more than last year. We told our customers “Our Priority is You.” We told our employees, “This is Our Season.” They say the holidays often fly by. We’d have to agree. To our customers,…

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Unlocking the Secrets of FERS

By Tammy Flanagan – January 22, 2015 As you probably know, federal employees are generally covered by one of two retirement systems: the “old” Civil Service Retirement System or the “new” Federal Employees Retirement System. But FERS isn’t that new any more. It includes many employees who have accumulated 30 or more years of federal…

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Local Postal union still fighting to keep Kokomo processing center open

By Josh Sigler – January 22, 2015 The United States Postal Service announced in November that it was set to merge Kokomo’s processing plant with the Indianapolis plant on March 14. What does that mean for the consumer? A letter written to a neighbor three blocks over may take longer to reach its destination because…

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Video: Texas man steamed after postal carrier tosses package

CARROLLTON, Texas — Steve Weinstein is asking the United States Postal Service if it’s standard procedure to toss deliveries on doorsteps after an expensive package got unceremoniously dumped on his front porch. Weinstein’s home surveillance camera caught a delivery person tossing a package several feet onto his porch Wednesday. He posted video of the incident…

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