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6/19/13

National Envelope Files for Bankruptcy Protection - Comments (Count)

Targeted House Post Offices Step Closer to Closure - Comments (Count)

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6/18/13

USPS Gets Express Mail Package to Post Office at 11:45, Says 'Good Enough' - Comments (Count)

USPS to Rename Express Mail as Priority Mail Express - Comments (Count)

Postal employee killed by semi-truck at loading dock in Minnesota - Comments (Count)

Postal worker dies after rear-end crash - Comments (Count)

USPS reaches energy reduction goal ahead of schedule - Comments (Count)

An end to postal deliveries at your customer's front door? - Comments (Count)

What's left to save at the U.S. Postal Service? - Comments (Count)

Postal Reform Bill Riles Unions, Reduces To-the-Door Delivery - Comments (Count)

Uniform Allowance Increases for Letter Carriers and CCA's Allowance Updates - Comments (Count)

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6/17/13

USPS struggling to cut fuel use in aging vehicle fleet - Comments (Count)

Government Snooping Revelations Should Give the Postal Service a Huge Opportunity - Comments (Count)

Burrus: Propaganda - Comments (Count)

USPS OIG: Does a Hybrid Postal Model Have Merit? - Comments (Count)

Wall of gopost postboxes gets seal of disapproval | Going (go)postal on Market Street: Not a good thing - Comments (Count)

Postal, book event highlights camels' Arizona trek - Comments (Count)

U.S., Cuba to meet over resuming mail services - Comments (Count)

Betrayal without remedy: The unwinding of the Postal Service - Comments (Count)

Issa's Surprising Compromise to Fix the Post Office - Comments (Count)

Hungary's Postal Service Puts Tracking Devices on Letter Carriers - Comments (Count)

How a Postal Inspector Caught a Scam Artist Red-Handed - Comments (Count)

The USPS Fights to Survive Under Stifling Government Regulations - Comments (Count)

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Issa Proposes New Legislation to Restructure Postal Service
6.13.2013 - The Washington Post reports: "The changes proposed by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Thursday would allow the financially ailing Postal Service to eliminate an annual $6 billion payment to pre-fund health costs for future retirees, a major concession that is likely to help the bill's chances in the Senate." - Issa's Postal Reform Proposal OKs 5-Day Delivery, Modifies Prefunding - APWU: 'Deeply Disturbing' - NALC: 'Discussion Draft' Has Major Problems - Postcom: Overview (PDF) - How did postal reform fail last year? - Comments (Count)

Ricin Case Reveals Postal Service Photographs Every Piece of Mail
6.08.2013 - The Smoking Gun reports: "According to FBI Agent James Spiropoulos, investigators accessed a Postal Service computer system that "incorporates a Mail Isolation Control and Tracking (MICT) program which photographs and captures an image of every mail piece that is processed." - Comments (Count)

What Would Happen if the USPS and the FEHBP Parted Ways?
5.29.2013 - Government Executive reports: "Because such a large portion of the FEHBP pool would be leaving under the Postal Service's plan, many of the remaining 6 million or so enrollees would likely feel the ripple effects. Jonathan Foley, OPM's planning and policy analysis director, told a House committee last month that 23 plans that are a part of the federal program have at least 50 percent postal workers or retirees." - Comments (Count)

Postal loss may lead to 'extreme action', Donahoe says
5.10.2013 - The Detroit News reports: "Donahoe said that without legislation to change the service's business model, mounting losses will necessitate heeding the postal board's call to ask labor unions to reopen contracts and to consider raising postal rates. "At some point our financial liabilities become so large that they cannot be fixed without taking extreme action," Donahoe said Friday at a board meeting in Washington." - Postmaster Facing Choice of Flouting Laws to Stem Losses - USPS: $1.9 Billion Second Quarter Loss - Postal Service Considers Price Hikes - NALC Statement - Comments (Count)

Lawyer: Postal Service board members risked "removal" over ending Saturday delivery
5.08.2013 - Federal Times reports: "Proceeding with five-day mail delivery "would entail a number of risks," Jeffrey Bucholtz, a partner with King & Spalding, wrote in a 17-page opinion prepared for the Postal Service's legal department. "First, violating a federal law would likely supply cause for the President to remove the Governors." - Comments (Count)

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