Plainfield, NJ Mayor Partners with U.S. Postal Service to Host Job Fair

(August 20, 2014) PLAINFIELD, N.J. – 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…

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Interactive ELM 546 Process meeting for employees in Los Angeles today

This is what’s happening at LAX-ISC in Los Angeles.  It affects all 3 tours and includes both Clerks and Mail Handlers.  Employees had recently been instructed to clock on to  546 / Standby Operation 340 and sit in a room.    

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APWU: What We Decide Matters

(This article appears in the July/August 2014 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Clint Burelson, Clerk Division Director The upcoming APWU convention in Chicago will be an exciting opportunity to engage in hands-on democracy.  Elected delegates from every local and state organization will gather together to make important decisions about the future of the Postal Service,…

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Post office opens late with no clerks while customers wait in line

A Manhattan post office doesn’t specialize in snail mail — it specializes in no mail. Morningside Heights residents hoping to mail out letters and packages before work Tuesday morning waited for more than an hour — a regular occurrence — before they even saw someone with a United States Postal Service uniform walk through the…

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