February 13, 2016 The U.S. Postal Service hopes to bring on 125,000 new employees this year, continuing a recent hiring binge caused by the agency’s blossoming package-delivery business. The agency hired 117,000 new workers during Fiscal Year 2015, virtually all of them into non-career positions, postal officials said Thursday in a document presented to the…
USPS is offering employees tips to protect themselves from the Zika virus, which has been spreading throughout the Caribbean, including the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The virus is transmitted through mosquito bites. Symptoms include fever, joint pain, muscle aches, rash and conjunctivitis. Most people will not experience symptoms. Most individuals who contract the…
By Joe Davidson – February 14, 2016 After years of singing the blues, postal officials had reason for a praise song. For the first time in almost five years, they reported a U.S. Postal Service quarterly net profit. The $307 million in net income for the first quarter of fiscal year 2016, which ended Dec….
By Dave Statter – February 13, 2016 I’ve long felt blocking a fire hydrant is an enormously selfish act that shouldn’t be tolerated — especially if it’s a government vehicle doing the blocking. You would hope (and sometimes be very disappointed) that people who drive official vehicles (especially the ones that are marked) would be…
