USPS: Nation’s first Village Post Office Is Thriving with Business

In the six months the nation’s first Village Post Office (VPO) in Malone, WA, has been operating, customer traffic has increased and business is thriving. This pioneering VPO, located in Red’s Hop N’ Market, averages about 15 Forever Book stamp sales per month and plans to offer more mailing options such as Prepaid Forever Priority […]

Video: Post Offices: Rural, Rustic, Relics?

“World Report goes on a road trip with post office aficionado Evan Kalish, who visits thousands of out-of-the-way post offices around the country. Kalish is on a one-man mission to save every post office he can from closing, even if Congress has other ideas.” In Their Sights: The Kill-Capture Policy in Afghanistan; Post Offices: Rural, […]

PRC Issues Order Denying Postmasters Complaint Over Management Of Post Offices

The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) issued a decision to deny a complaint by NAPUS and the League of Postmasters to renew an expedited complaint or a request a stay to prevent the Postal Service’s Final Rule from going into effect on December 1, 2011.  The PRC did grant the Postmaster associations the right to re-file […]

Postmasters To Manage More Than One Post Office In Changes To USPS Manuals

USPS revises manuals and handbooks: Employee and Labor Rela­tions Manual (ELM), Handbook PO-101, Administrative Support Manual (ASM) and Postal Operations Man­ual (POM) ELM Revision: Management of Post Offices by Postmasters Effective December 1, 2011, Employee and Labor Rela­tions Manual (ELM), Part 113, Definitions, is revised to clar­ify that a postmaster may be responsible for the […]

Post Office Facilities Group Fighting USPS Real Estate Program Delegating Lease Renewals To Contractor

AUSPL Advises Lessors NOT to Pay CB Richard Ellis Group Commission Fees for Leases on Post Offices By now, most AUSPL lessors have received a “Dear Landlord” letter in which the Postal Service introduced its real estate program delegating lease negotiations to CB Richard Ellis (CBRE). We are vigorously challenging this program because we believe […]

An Urgent Call To Attend USPS “Public Input Meetings”

Attend United States Postal Service Public Input Meetings to Insure a First Class Stamp Receives First Class Service For Immediate Release 11/7/2011 Contact Clint Burelson, President 360-970-2965 Statement by Clint Burelson, APWU  President, Olympia, Washington The United States Postal Service (USPS) will soon be holding “public input meetings” regarding their proposals to close and/or consolidate […]

Military Post Offices in Iraq to Close Nov. 17

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2011 – Because U.S. forces are coming home from Iraq by the end of the year, the U.S. Postal Service will stop accepting mail addressed to military post offices in Iraq starting Nov. 17, Defense Department officials said today. Military post offices in Iraq also will stop processing mail Nov. 17, and […]

USPS to Sell 2011 White House Ornament

The White House Ornament has been on sale at select post offices since October 13, 2011. Press Release from USPS WASHINGTON — The Postal Service has teamed with one of the nation’s leading companies producing decorative and commercial products to sell the 2011 White House Holiday Ornament at approximately 7,000 Post Offices across the country. […]

First Village Post Office debuts in Malone WA 98559

The U.S. Postal Service launches the first of its money-saving village post offices in a tiny town in Washington State. Red’s Hop N’ Market is Malone’s one-stop shop for coffee, cigarettes, beer, socks and pickled sausages.  People really like them.  There’s a Hot Mama, which is the spicier version.  And a Big Daddy is the […]