Video: Fayetteville postal workers protest downtown facility closure

By Nicole Carr – January 12, 2015 FAYETTEVILLE (WTVD) — Marching through a downpour, about 30 postal workers made their way from the Airborne Special Operations Museum to the Green Street Post Office Monday morning. They didn’t mind the rain because 400 good paying, local jobs are at stake, they said.  “U.S. Mail is not…

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APWU: New MOU to Create Hundreds of Career Jobs in Level 4 POStPlan Offices

Web News Article #: 004-2015 01/12/2015 – An addendum to the Sept. 22, 2013, POStPLAN Memorandum of Understanding will place a number of career jobs into Level 4 post offices, which otherwise would have been staffed exclusively with Postal Support Employees (PSEs). The offices in question are open four hours per day. The specific numbers…

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How the new service standards may slow down much more mail than the Postal Service is saying

(January 11, 2015) The mail is slowing down again, but it’s not clear how much. There’s good reason to be believe, though, that it will more than the Postal Service is saying. The first slowdown took place in July 2012, when the Postal Service implemented phase one of the Network Rationalization plan, which closed about 150 mail…

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Postal workers speak out against plant closures and speed-up

“We’re becoming slaves” By Hector Cordon – January 10, 2015 The United States Postal Service (USPS) initiated the closure of 82 mail processing facilities nationwide this week. The cuts will impact 15,000 employees and add one to two days to the delivery time of 14 billion pieces of first-class mail each year. Since 2006, the…

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Video: Ask Ed Live: Saving the U.S. Postal Service

Saving the U.S. Postal Service – Published on Jan 9, 2015 In Ask Ed Live, Ed Schultz explains the need for the President to defend the U.S. Postal Service to help save the institution. Plus, Ed breaks down the need for smart reporting in sensitive situations.    

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USPS Data Breach Was For Profit – ‘Health Files’ Fetch Handsome Figures, Indicate Investigators

(January 8, 2015) The USPS data breach that took place in November could have been orchestrated primarily for financial gains, indicated the investigators. USPS Chief Human Resources Officer Jeffrey Williamson confirmed that data stored in “a file relating to injury compensation claims” was illegally accessed and siphoned-off by hackers. Health information of as many as…

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