While increasing
postage rates coincide with a steep decline in the use of first-class
mail, standard or bulk mail is enjoying a surge of popularity, especially
with direct marketers. Nearly a third of the Postal Service’s revenue
comes from direct mail — in 2007, it accounted for $22.8 billion
of the agency’s $75 billion income. The use of first-class postage
has declined since 1999, but the number of standard-mail pieces
has grown by a little more than 20 percent.
Bulk mailers get discounts, you get pricier
stamps
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5/11/08
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Postal Worker Mauled by Pit Bull While Delivering
Mail
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Postal Service refuses to be licked
5/10/08
Good Question:
Why Not Stop Saturday Mail?
With
the U.S. Postal Service reporting a second quarter net loss of $707
million, and first class stamps about to rise to 42 cents, cost
cutting is on the mind of the executives, and of WCCO-TV viewers.
The Postal Service handled more than 51 billion pieces of mail in
the second quarter, and the entire distribution system has been
designed to distribute that load over six days. "It would make it
very difficult. Right now, our Monday's volume is usually our heaviest
volume day, so if we didn't have Saturday delivery, then it would
be Monday and Tuesday that would be extremely heavy," said Larson.
It's possible it would take a letter carrier 12 hours to finish
a Monday route with six days of work being crunched into five.
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Postal Service looks to expand package returns service with major
carriers
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Youths Deliver Punch To Mail Carrier |
6
teens beat, rob mail carrier
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Attack injures letter carrier
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My 13-Ounce Dilemma
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Postal Service relents, says Healdsburg P.O. can stay
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Power of the penny a sticky topic
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PO Box vs. Mailbox, which is the better choice for the environment?
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Postal carrier glad to be alive
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Accidental stamp collector decides Forever stamps are way to go
as postage rates rise
5/9/08
APWU: Postal Reform Act Is No
Endorsement of Privatization
The passage of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement
Act in December 2006 did not change the fundamental mission of the
Postal Service, an APWU leader testified on Capitol Hill, and should
not be perceived as justification for privatizing the nation’s mail
system or eliminating its obligation to provide service to all Americans.
“The U.S. Postal Service, Post-PAEA: What’s Next?”
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USPS Workforce Size and Employment Categories,
1987-2007
Congressional Research Service
(CRS) Report :This report provides data from the past two decades
on the size of the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS's) workforce, the
number of persons employed by USPS by employment categories, and
the number of persons employed by USPS under time-limited contracts.
It also analyzes the most salient aspects of these employment data.
USPS employs nearly 786,000 persons. Although USPS's workforce size
has changed relatively little from 20 years ago, it has dropped
12% in the past decade. The number of career employees declined
8.8% since 1987; however, the number of non-career employees increased
106.5%. Clerks, who staff retail counters at post offices and manually
sort mail, dropped more than 31% since 1987. Rural mail delivery
carriers, in contrast, grew 84.9%; and building and equipment maintenance
personnel and vehicle maintenance personnel grew 28.7% and 14.9%,
respectively.
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McAllen, TX postal worker indicted on mail theft
charges
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Want to Buy Stamps at the Post Office? Good Luck.
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Do not call, do not spam, do not mail
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Postal Service gives licking to average patron
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Wounded mail carrier to be released from hospital
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FedEx holder sues board over contractor problems
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Social Security Checks Go Missing
5/8/08
Postal Worker Awarded $382,500 In Discrimination Case
(Des Moines, Iowa) A federal jury has awarded
a black woman more than $380000 in her racial discrimination lawsuit
against the US Postal Service. Sheryl Rogers, a former night shift
mail sorter at the Des Moines Post Office, testified during the
trial that the harassment included chants of racial epithets by
her co-workers.
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Postal Bulletin 5/08/08 Issue
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Boulder Creek mail carrier arrested for stealing from customers
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Mail delivery within Chicago shows improvement
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Retired New Hampshire District Manager may run for governor
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