The Postal Service is continuing plans to introduce next generation delivery vehicles that are durable, affordable and better meet changing delivery needs. The USPS fleet currently has more than 214,000 vehicles, including 180,000 delivery vehicles that are slated for replacement with next generation vehicles. Many of the existing vehicles are LLVs, which have become iconic…
(August 20, 2014) PLAINFIELD, N.J. â The United States Postal Service Northern New Jersey District officials will be hosting a special postal job fair at City Hall on Thursday. Plainfield Mayor Adrian O. Mapp is organizing the joint community outreach at the Watchung Avenue complex from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. to assist the USPS…
Audit Report – DR-MA-14-006 – 08/14/2014Background The U.S. Postal Service is developing and pilot testing the Delivery Management System to improve carrier efficiency during street delivery. This system combines Global Positioning System data and other data from various systems to allow supervisors to see âat a glanceâ the location of each carrier and whether they…
Click Here for Convention Chronicle In his keynote speech on Monday, July 21, to the more than 5,300 delegates on hand for the National Association of Letter Carriersâ 69th Biennial Convention in Philadelphia, President Fredric V. Rolando highlighted the many victories letter carriers have celebrated since the 2012 convention in Minneapolis, while also laying out…
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) â One day recently, Al Gameos got mail in Wilkinsburg, but none of it was his. âI got three different pieces of mail from three different streets,â he said. On the Northside, Paul Pongrace says mixed up mail has forced people to become carriers themselves. âPeople in the area are walking from one…
Early returns for the 2014 version of the NALC (National Association of Letter Carriers) food drive appear to be a mixed bag. I would excuse myself by saying pardon the pun, but in this case the bags seemed to make the difference, and from one letter carrierâs purely anecdotal perspective the drop off in sponsorship…
HAMILTON â While neither post office is closing in Hamilton, a decision to reroute the carriers may have a small impact on mail delivery times for customers. Mail carriers who service the Rossville post office at 865 Franklin St. will begin reporting to the downtown Hamilton office, 105 Court St., beginning next month. Mail carriers…
Click Here for the PDF from the PostCom webinar on the DSCF Standard Mail Load Leveling Overview Excerpts from the slide presentation are below: via Postal news from around the world – PostCom.org.
