Postal Service First-Quarter Results Reflect Drop in Mail Volume

USPS issued the following press release:  National On-Time Performance Hits Record Highs   The U.S. Postal Service announced that mail volume was down 3.0 percent, or 1.7 billion pieces, for the first quarter of fiscal 2008, according to preliminary financial results presented today to the Postal Service Board of Governors. First-Class Mail volume decreased 3.9 […]

Big Pay Increases Approved For Top Postal Service Officers

Story from Linn’s Stamp News WASHINGTON WATCH Big pay increases approved for top Postal Service officers BY BILL MCALLISTER      Postmaster General John E. “Jack” Potter and seven other senior United States Postal Service officers have been granted large raises, by the Postal Service board of governors.      The increases were disclosed by the Postal […]

Former Florida APWU Local President Sentenced to Prison in Theft Case

Another Postal Employee Sentenced for Stealing Undeliverable Bulk Business Mail   The following is a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida: January 17, 2008 Pensacola, Florida – Gregory R. Miller, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, and James B. Davis, Special Agent in Charge of the […]

Former Postal Workers Sent to Prison For Assaulting Manager

According to a U.S. Attorney’s Office press release: Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson sentenced John Bermudez, Jr., age 31, of Brooklyn, Maryland today to 10 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for assault of a government official and sentenced his brother, Gregory Bermudez, age 28, of Millersville, […]