Angela Summers, the letter carrier who was shot to death in Indianapolis on April 27th, 2020, had posted just two days before on Facebook about a problem on her route involving a dog and threats made against her. It’s unclear if the post is about the same address where she was killed.
Immediate Release April 28, 2020 contact: Jamie Partridge, 503-752-5112 Communities and Postal Workers United Memorial mourns fallen postal workers and calls to save the service A small gathering of clergy, community and postal union leaders memorialized postal workers who have died from Covid-19 outside the East Portland post office this morning. The Reverend John Schwiebert […]
During a regular news conference concerning the Federal government’s continuing response to the coronavirus pandemic, a reporter asked President Trump if he was responsible for $25 billion being stripped from the Postal Service in the CARES Act. Trump responded that the Postal Service has been losing billions for many years and that he is not […]
Amazon has ordered 100,000 electric delivery vehicles—the largest-ever order of electric delivery vehicles—from Rivian, a producer of emissions-free electric vehicles with a vehicle development center in Plymouth, just outside Detroit. Amazon’s transportation team spent 18 months evaluating a variety of electric vehicle options to reduce its carbon footprint. To move quickly, the team realized the […]
About five years ago PostalMag.com published Marty Blumberg’s poem “The Mail Must Go through.” It was a great success and only two weeks ago Marty published a book, “My Brooklyn, My Way” that tells of his childhood days in the 50s growing up in Brooklyn. Marty’s dad was a letter carrier for over 40 years […]
Fifty residents and business owners from North Portland told their mail delivery horror stories to Congressman Earl Blumenauer this morning at the Celebration Tabernacle in downtown Kenton. The postal forum was organized by Communities and Postal Workers United. Letter carriers and customers bemoaned the late, delayed and misdelivered mail in the area. Representatives from Kenton […]
Press Advisory Contact: Jamie Partridge 503-752-5112 Fixing North Portland’s Mail What: Postal Forum with Rep. Earl Blumenauer When: Saturday, January 25, 9:30-10:30am Where: Celebration Tabernacle, 8131 N Denver, Portland, OR 97217 Who: Residents, Business and Postal Workers Why: Congressman Rep. Earl Blumenauer wants to hear our 97217 mail stories! Blumenauer has pledged to take our […]
Yet another USPS Postal LLV delivery truck has caught fire and burned, like hundreds of others, this one in Junction City, Kansas (in early Jan. 2020). This makes at least four in the last month that have burned. HUNDREDS of the delivery trucks have burned in similar fashion. Incredibly there have been only a few […]
Immediate Release, Nov. 30, 2019 Contact: Jamie Partridge (Communities and Postal Workers United) 503-752-5112 Willie Groshell (Oregon State Association of Letter Carriers, president) 503-560-4685 Peter Parks (97217-area customer) 503-896-0508 Postal protest rally draws North Portland neighbors Close to fifty residents of North Portland’s 97217 zip code area rallied outside the Kenton Post Office today to […]
After receiving a tip about a USPS letter carrier engaged in activities inconsistent with a work-related injury, the USPS OIG investigated his claim for compensation. A physician had ordered the carrier not to lift weights, walk, climb, kneel, bend, stoop, operate machinery, drive, or stand for more than an hour. OIG agents observed him loading […]
Open Season is Here November 11 – December 9 The 2019 Open Season for USPS employees runs from November 11 to December 9, 2019. During the Open Season period, you can enroll in or make changes to your medical, dental, or vision coverage. You may also enroll in health and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts […]
The United States Postal Service is sponsoring its first National Slip, Trip, and Fall Prevention Week (October 26 – November 1, 2019), a public service campaign that offers safety tips and emphasizes the need for increased owner responsibility to help prevent carrier injuries. On an average day, 51 United States Postal Service mail carriers will […]
Postal Service craft employees can now use the Enterprise Leave Request Application to request unscheduled leave. The application, also known as eLRA, is accessible through LiteBlue using a computer, smartphone or other mobile device. Non-craft employees have used the eLRA for several years. Recent improvements to the system have made it available to craft employees. […]
The movie Ready Player One, directed by Steven Spielberg, featured a futuristic mail truck designed to deploy delivery drones. The United States Postal Service (USPS) is investigating the feasibility of utilizing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or drones as delivery vehicles for mail as an integrated part of its vehicle delivery fleet, as well as to […]
Damien Tate — a former varsity high school football player and now football coach for the Windy City Dolphins — just might be the closest thing the USPS has to a star wideout. This video is part of the Sun-Times Hardest-Working Voices series, which spotlights Chicago area residents.
Well, at least the mistake wasn’t on the stamp. A post office lobby poster announcing new USPS stamps that features the Transcontinental Railroad Stamp uses a 20th century British locomotive for artwork. Technically, the depiction is not an official fail since one could make the argument the poster only suggests that new stamps are arriving […]
Updated information about the Postal Service’s consolidated casing test. 4/26/2019 NALC Files National Level Grievance Over Consolidated Casing: “NALC has filed a national level grievance regarding the Postal Service’s unilateral implementation of the consolidated casing initiative scheduled to begin in the Annandale, VA Post Office in May. The Postal Service plans to expand the initiative […]
Albuquerque Post Offices have no Easter bunnies to deliver but many of its post offices have rodents, scorpions and rats. Most recently, on March 26, 2019 a rat jumped upon an employee at the Richard Pino Station while he was delivering mail into the post office boxes on the premise. A supervisor investigated the incident […]
Washington, DC – Today the Postal Regulatory Commission issued Orders 4875 and 4876 approving the Postal Service’s planned rate adjustments for both Market Dominant products and Competitive products respectively. Rate increases for Market Dominant products must meet certain statutory and regulatory requirements, the most prominent of which is that such increases be no greater than […]
Amazon’s new Mercedes delivery vans are starting to be seen on the roadways and byways of America, as the behemoth company starts taking control of its own deliveries. The Amazon Prime vehicle in the above photo is company owned, driven by an Amazon employee. Amazon is also making the vans available to entrepreneurs to run […]
