By Stephanie Hale-Lopez – December 13, 2017 Boise, ID – The U.S. Postal Service is in the midst of its busiest time of year â the holiday season. But this year is even busier than normal â record-setting, in fact. From cards to packages, it seems as though every post office in the country is…
October 20, 2015 On Tuesday, local government officials took a tour of the United States Post Office processing center that closed down in April. The mayors of Pocatello and Chubbuck along with representatives from Senator Crapo’s office, postal officials from Pocatello and Salt Lake City and the executive director of Old Town Pocatello toured the…
The Postal Regulatory Commission has dismissed the appeal on the closing of the contract postal unit in Careywood, Idaho. It was a terrible decision. It is illogical and inconsistent with the Commissionâs own precedents, and it creates a new precedent that endangers not only all contract post offices, but every post office in the country….
Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 In a decision issued today, the Postal Regulatory Commission ruled that it does not have the authority to stop the US Postal Service from closing the Careywood, Idaho post office. Former PRC chair Ruth Goldway was the sole dissenting voice. Goldway suggested that the decision was âprobably illegalâ, and that under…
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player May 4, 2015 It’s been more than two weeks since the U.S. Postal Service stopped processing mail in Pocatello and began rerouting it to Salt Lake City. Local News 8 investigates whether mail is taking longer to arrive. Luke Jones reports. Source: Investigating mail delivery delays | Video – Home
(March 17, 2015) The announcement came over three years ago. The United States Post Office made a final decision to close the processing plant in Pocatello. Since then, postal employees and local officials have been appealing to the post office to take the closure off the table. Monday night, one last push was made to…
(January 8, 2015) POCATELLO, Idaho — Right now Pocatello leaders and community members are working on a plan to save Pocatello’s mail processing plant. KPVI News 6 spoke to members of the group trying to save the plant Wednesday as they were working out their ideas. Wednesday’s meeting focused on rallying support in Washington D.C….
The U.S. Postal Service is hiring for new non-career positions at postal facilities in Washington and northern Idaho. Positions available include city carrier assistants that deliver mail from post offices; postal support employees that work in post offices and mail handler assistants that work in mail processing facilities. These jobs could lead to career positions….
