This huge USPS shop in Eckington had a historic purpose. Next life, U-Haul?

By Michael Neibauer – June 14, 2016 For roughly five decades, the U.S. Postal Service facility at 2135 Fifth St. NE in Eckington was the only equipment shop for the entire postal system, manufacturing millions of mailbags and hundreds of thousands of postal locks every year. Last week, the Postal Service sold the 79,380-square-foot historic…

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Arbitrator Voss declines to issue monetary remedy in Diebold subcontracting case

“I find that the appropriate make-whole remedy would be the amount of overtime, if any, of which the affected employees as a group were deprived.  This amount, as discussed above, was susceptible to reasonable, quantifiable determination.  The Union’s requested remedies do not reflect a loss of overtime to the affected group of employees. I therefore decline…

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San Antonio postal customers locked out of their mail

(July 7, 2014) SAN ANTONIO — Hundreds of postal customers are making their own mail runs on the city’s northwest side. The problem: there’s a backup in changing the locks on mailboxes within subdivisions. “The people who send me mail, they pay postage. They’re paying for something to be delivered to me, and it’s not…

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