Don’t let the decline in mail volumes over the past few years fool you. People still place a high value on postal services. Postal customers especially value being able to interact with postal employees at a Post Office as compared to other retail alternatives. And while some people might be indifferent to Saturday delivery of…
A Postal Service employee will compete for $1 million on the new season of “Survivor.” Portland, ME, Maintenance Mechanic Daniel Foley is one of 18 contestants on the CBS show’s 30th season, which will divide participants into three tribes: white collar, blue collar and no collar. Foley says this will be one of the greatest…
By Tom Griffith – February 23, 2015 NEWELL | A well-researched complaint by a curious Newell resident could save her and some of her neighbors from paying a fee for getting mail. As a result of Anna Hermanson’s diligence, the U.S. Postal Service has backtracked on a policy that required some Newell residents without mailboxes…
Last week, management in the Suncoast District (Florida) placed mandates on Plant Managers to have Processing Plants install web cams in specific locations within each facility. Fort Myers, Manasota (Sarasota/Bradenton), Tampa and Orlando are four locations where management has placed web cams. These web cams can be viewed from any postal employee (management or Craft…
By Katie Byard – February 21, 2015 Wolf Ledges processing facility to close in April as postal service slashes costs, merges operations; affected workers to be transferred The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service is moving ahead with plans to close its Akron mail-sorting operation, part of which was moved to Cleveland more than a year…
By Troy Dreier – February 20, 2015 Before the U.S.P.S. could deliver training videos to its workers, it had to understand how they access remote content. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stops the U.S. mail, and it certainly doesn’t stop the post office from delivering video to its employees. At…
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February 20, 2015 Postal Service employees who work at the Stamp Fulfillment Services (SFS) facility in Kansas City, MO, have a unique perspective on the world. They work below it. The facility is located inside the SubTropolis, an underground industrial park that Bloomberg Business visited recently. The park, carved out of an excavated mine, is…
