USPS Employee Search (salary database) updated as of January 2015

Click Here for 2015 US Postal Service Employees Search Enter a name or select a location to begin your search. Not all fields need to be filled out. If you enter a zip code, there is no need to select a state. Results show details as of January 2015. Salaries show base pay or hourly…

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A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service

By  Bill Brickley – February 17, 2015 “Though the Postal Service is in the midst of an economic turnaround many in Congress envision the Postal Service as a sort of pinata to be broken apart so the corporate sector can further enrich themselves. They disregard three straight years of an operational profit and ignore the…

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USPS Struggles With Wave of New Hires

February 15, 2015 The U.S. Postal Service’s shift to a lower-paid workforce comes with a steep price. By the agency’s own admission, the hiring of more non-career employees has led to lower productivity, worse service, higher injury and turnover rates, and increased investment in new training programs. USPS has historically been staffed by long-serving employees,…

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Video: 2015 Letter Carriers’ ‘Stamp Out Hunger’ Food Drive

Published on Feb 13, 2015 On Saturday, May 9, thousands of the U.S. Postal Service’s letter carriers—with generous help from countless volunteers—will conduct the 23rd annual “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive, the largest one-day food drive in America. Letter carriers visit every address in America at least six days a week, so we are acutely…

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Postal Service Back to Normal After Electronic Glitch Fixed

February 14, 2015 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service says it’s fixed the electronic glitch that had disrupted some services — and that everything is back to normal. Spokesman David Partenheimer says in an email that the agency’s communication network was restored Friday night. “Postal Service back up,” he says. A network outage had affected…

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Duluth, Minnesota postal center moves toward closure

By Lisa Kaczke – February 13, 2015 U.S. Postal Service officials said Friday that they’ll soon start notifying Duluth mail processing center employees of their options as plans move forward to close the center in nine weeks. In total, about 78 employees will be affected starting April 18, when the Postal Service will begin sorting…

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Postal routing makes Tamaroa, Illinois water bills up to two weeks late

February 13, 2015 The Tamaroa Village Board continued their Feb. 11 meeting for two weeks to discuss the billing cycle for water and sewer customers. Village employee Tiffany Kujawa said the local post office was ordered to send all the water bills to the regional post office this month, but was guaranteed a two-day turn-around….

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Postal Service dealing with national computer outage — hackers not involved

By Josh Hicks – February 13, 2015 Friday the 13th’s bad luck came a bit early for the U.S. Postal Service this week as a national computer outage hit the agency during a hardware installation on Thursday. USPS spokeswoman Toni Delancey said Friday that the outage, which began sometime on Thursday afternoon, has affected the…

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