USPS OIG Blog: Approved Shipper Approval

If you want to expand your business by partnering with someone to sell your products or services in another location, you’d want that person to represent you appropriately and abide by your practices, right? In short, you’d want your partner to uphold your brand. The U.S. Postal Service isn’t any different. Through its Approved Shipper…

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Staples May Have Beat on Earnings but Its Store Business Remains in Pretty Awful Shape

By Brian Sozzi – May 18, 2016 No wonder Staples is investing in lower ink and toner prices in the wake of its failed bid for Office Depot. The company’s stores could really use the traffic. The office supplies retailer reported Wednesday that same-store sales at its more than 1,600 stores in the U.S. and…

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APWU: FTC to Challenge Merger of Staples, Office Depot

Web News Article #: 226-2015 12/07/2015 – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced today that it would seek to stop the proposed merger of Staples and Office Depot, the nation’s largest and second-largest office-supply chains. The agency filed an “administrative complaint” charging that Staples’ proposed $6.3 billion takeover of Office Depot would violate the nation’s…

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APWU: USPS, Staples Produce a Mound of Documents

Web News Article #: 207-2015 11/02/2015 – After months of refusing to provide documents subpoenaed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the APWU, the USPS and Staples produced a mound of paperwork on Oct. 20, less than two weeks before a hearing scheduled for Nov. 2. Rather than address the core of the…

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Public Postal Service is Essential to Democracy

By David Cohen You wouldn’t hand your laptop to a hacker, right? Well, the Senate could make a move just as foolish. They’ll soon vote on nominations to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors, which include a longtime advocate for postal service privatization and a lobbyist for the payday lending industry. The internet…

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Staples struggles, but CEO’s pay surges

225 stores closing, and online market strategy is a challenge, but top brass are well rewarded By Taryn Luna – June 1, 2015 Staples Inc. has struggled as the Internet and other retail forces reshape the office supply business it dominated for decades. Sales have fallen and profits have slumped. The company is closing stores,…

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Staples to pay former Columbia, SC employee $275,000 for FMLA violation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, May 28, 2015 Staples, Inc. and Staples Contract and Commercial, Inc. Settle Allegations that it violated the Family Medical Leave Act for $275,000 COLUMBIA, South Carolina—-  United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced today that the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina, working alongside the United States Department…

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