Time for Postal Service to send Congress “Dear John letter”

  By Dennis Wyatt – January 2, 2018 The Twitter in Chief has a point. Big businesses seem to benefit from indirect subsidies from the United States Postal Service in the form of rates that do not cover basic costs given USPS lost $5.6 billion in 2016. President Trump last week tweeted the Postal Service…

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NY area Postal Employees helped ring Nasdaq closing bell Dec. 28

Several Postal Service employees from the New York area helped ring the closing bell at the Nasdaq stock exchange Dec. 28. The group included: Letter carriers Vicki Carmichael, Paula Drake, Principelina Mendes, Miguel Perdomo, Ken Smith, Garrett Smola, Lisa Sweeney, Timothy Thibault and Dominick Turilli Rural carriers Terry Dion and Kimberly Sutter Michael Munoz, an…

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USPS Information Technology facts you didn’t know

The Postal Service has one of the world’s largest computer networks, making communication between thousands of facilities, employees and systems possible. But how much do you know about USPS information technology? Here are some byte-sized bits, courtesy of Postal Facts. USPS handles a lot of email. The corporate email system handles more than 12 million…

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USPS OIG Report: Function 4 Efficiency in the Suncoast District

Objective Our objective was to assess Function 4 operational efficiency in the Suncoast District. U.S. Postal Service financial systems track customer service operations as Function 4 operations. Function 4 includes customer service activities of employees at post offices, stations, and branches involved in distribution of mail, retail window, and miscellaneous administrative operations. Hurricane Irma hit…

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