District Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against USPS For Selling Employees Personal Data

This is an update on the nationwide class action court case involving Postal employees filed two years ago. Postal Employees claimed that USPS violated the Privacy Act by selling its employee master file, containing personal, private employee information, including “the complete home address database of all career and non-career, full and part-time employees. According to […]

Former Kentucky Postal Employee charged with stealing items from the mail

LOUISVILLE, KY – U.S. Attorney Candace G. Hill of the Western District of Kentucky announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Joseph Bourg, age 44, of Louisville, Kentucky, in Jefferson County, on charges of theft of mail matter. The Indictment alleges that between 2008 through August of 2009, Bourg rifled through […]

Postal Employee Charged With Theft of 450 Netflix Movies From Mail

Press Release from the U.S. Department of Justice : INDIANAPOLIS – Ricky L. Alsip, 53, Evansville, Indiana, was charged with theft of mail by postal employee, announced Timothy M. Morrison, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Indiana, following an investigation by the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General. The information alleges that Alsip stole approximately […]

Over 40,000 Less USPS Career Employees Reported In FY 2009

On Rolls and Paid Employee Statistics (ORPES) published last week shows that USPS career employees have decreased by 40,110 since Same Period Last Year (SPLY). Over a 3-year period there are 61,151 less career employees.  The chart below covers the last 3 years from 2007 through Pay Period 20 2009 (September 25,2009). note: USPS Fiscal […]

Editorial: Postal Workers OWCP Indictments

The OIG press release about the OWCP indictments stated, “The United States Postal Service has a policy of returning disabled employees to a limited duty position or part-time employment at the earliest opportunity during their recovery from their work-related injury.”  What happened to the National Reassessment Process?  Doesn’t that do the opposite?   “Pursuant to […]

Fewer Than 2 Percent Of Postal Employees Take Latest Early Retirement Offer

From Federal Times Fewer than 2 percent of U.S. Postal Service employees who were offered a chance at early retirement last month accepted the offer — far less than postal management expected. The Postal Service offered early retirement to 147,937 employees; they were required to make a decision by June 16, with their retirement beginning […]