Postal Service employees can sign up to receive informational alerts from the organization during emergencies, including the coronavirus pandemic. The alerts are sent to employees via email or text messages on their personal devices. The alerts will include national communications and local information based on the employee’s work site. To sign up, employees can go […]
My name is La-Vora Chambers Better and I’m a Postal Police supervisor. I work at the Curseen-Morris and Southern Maryland processing and distribution centers in the Washington, DC, area. The Postal Police protect USPS employees, property and facilities. One of the first things supervisors do on a daily basis is conduct a roll call. We […]
Race is on. The Race for a $Billion campaign has generated more than $447 million in estimated annualized revenue for the Postal Service so far. The initiative, which began last fall, aims to raise $1 billion through employee-provided sales leads before the fiscal year ends Sept. 30. Individual Post Offices are reaching important milestones in […]
Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan is praising USPS employees for their service to the public during the coronavirus pandemic. “Across the nation, Postal Service employees are continuing to accept, process and deliver mail. They know that our customers count on us to deliver their medicine, supplies, checks and other critical mail. I thank all of […]
The National Postal Forum, the mailing and shipping industry’s largest annual conference, won’t be held this year. USPS and the National Postal Forum organization announced the cancellation this week, citing guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health authorities that have recommended no large gatherings in the United States during […]
The Postal Service is sharing a video from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that shows the steps to properly wash your hands. “Handwashing is one of the most important ways you can keep from getting sick and spreading germs to others,” Michele Hlavsa, a CDC epidemiologist, says in the video. CDC recommends […]
Scanning snapshot. This week’s scanning snapshot looks a lot like last week’s scanning snapshot. The national rating was 97.86 percent for the week ending March 13, up from 97.77 percent from one week earlier. The top three areas were Western (98.18 percent), Eastern (98.03 percent) and Great Lakes (97.95 percent) — the same areas that […]
The interest arbitration panel chaired by Arbitrator Stephen Goldberg has notified the Postal Service that it has reached a decision and an award. The award is intended to resolve the differences between USPS and the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) that resulted from an inability to reach a negotiated collective bargaining agreement after the prior […]
Scanning snapshot. Things are looking up on the scanning front. The Postal Service’s national rating was 97.77 percent during the week ending March 6, up from 97.66 percent one week earlier. Like they usually do, Western (98.07 percent) led the areas, while Dakotas (99.1 percent) dominated the districts. None of the areas improved their overall […]
The Postal Service is reminding employees about a training course that is designed to help them build trust in their workplaces. The six-hour course, Engagement Matters, is geared toward all bargaining unit employees and is conducted in a classroom setting by USPS engagement ambassadors. The course will help participants learn to be more involved, committed, […]
The Postal Service will release a stamp Sunday, March 15, to help mark the 200th anniversary of Maine’s statehood. The date marks the anniversary of Maine’s admission to the union in 1820. Known as the Pine Tree State for its extensive pine forests, which have fueled its lumber industry, Maine is also famous for its […]
A new Postal Service video features highlights from the Year of the Rat stamp dedication ceremony. The event was held in January during a Lunar New Year festival in Monterey Park, CA, and featured several guest speakers, including U.S. Rep. Judy Chu, who represents the area, and Luke Grossmann, the Postal Service’s finance and strategy […]
The Postal Service is the most trusted brand in the nation, a new survey has found. The poll — conducted by Morning Consult, a market research firm — focused on almost 2,000 brands. For each brand, an average of 16,700 consumers were interviewed. The results show USPS is the top-rated brand overall, with more than […]
Spring is around the corner and you’re ready for a fresh start. Why not borrow a page from the nation’s first Postmaster General? Benjamin Franklin kept a daily schedule that reveals an appreciation for the kind of “life hacks” that would later make Marie Kondo famous. Here’s an example of some of his enduring wisdom: […]
The Postal Service is providing its managers with new training to help them protect the organization’s data. CyberSafe Managing User Access, a mandatory course, will show participants how to properly manage user access and conduct periodic reviews. This is important because threats to digital information are growing in frequency and sophistication worldwide. Protecting USPS employee, […]
Rob Early, a Washington state Postmaster, was recently honored for his efforts to support employees who serve in the military. Early received the Patriot Award for his support of Jeremiah Creelman, a letter carrier who was called to duty by his Coast Guard unit in 2019 and spent almost six months deployed to the southern […]
Scanning snapshot. The Postal Service’s national scanning rating dipped to 97.66 percent during the week ending Feb. 28, down from 97.76 percent one week earlier. This is the second consecutive week the national rating declined. Western led the areas with a rating of 97.86 percent, down 0.22 percent from one week earlier, while Dakotas topped […]
Gail Etienne-Stripling needed more than a notebook on her first day of school on Nov. 14, 1960 — she also needed police protection. The Tulsa, OK, mail processing clerk was 6 years old when she and two other first-grade girls became the first students to integrate McDonogh 19 Elementary School in New Orleans. Etienne-Stripling, Leona […]
The Postal Service’s national scanning rating slipped to 97.76 percent during the week ending Feb. 21, down from 97.78 percent one week earlier. Each of the seven areas saw their ratings decline, including top-ranked Western, where the rating was 97.99 percent, down 0.23 percent from the previous week. The numbers were also down in most […]
The Postal Service is reminding employees that they are required to abide by the Hatch Act, including the guidelines for using social media. Here’s a quick recap of the law: • The Hatch Act exists to keep politics out of federal workplaces. The law, passed in 1939, limits certain political activities of federal employees, including […]
Postal Service employees did their part to raise awareness of heart disease throughout February, which is American Heart Month. Post Offices, processing and distribution centers, and other facilities hosted health fairs where employees could screen their blood pressure, talk to health care providers and receive tips and information. USPS employees also participated in National Wear […]
The Postal Service has joined the ranks of national leaders in addressing climate change. The organization has achieved platinum status through the nonprofit Climate Registry, the largest group in North America that tracks greenhouse gas emissions. USPS earned this recognition by publicly reporting a greenhouse gas emissions inventory for its operations. This data, which was […]
Scanning snapshot. The Postal Service’s national scanning rating was 97.78 percent during the week ending Feb. 14, an uptick from one week earlier, when the rating was 97.76 percent. Six of the Postal Service’s seven areas saw their overall numbers decline slightly. The exception: Eastern, which ranked second with a rating of 98.01 percent, an […]
The Postal Service’s booth at last month’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was ranked among the show’s best by two media outlets. The 80-by-60-foot booth contained monitors that played videos about what USPS can do for its customers. It also featured three kiosks that attendees could use to answer questions and then receive a code to […]
The Postal Service is encouraging employees to leverage the HERO platform to take ownership of their career development. The most important step is creating a HEROProfile, a feature that allows employees to offer a consolidated view of their professional information. Managers, supervisors and colleagues can then view the HEROProfile to assess the employee’s skills, talents […]
Celebrations bring people together — and now there’s a new stamp to make that easier. Let’s Celebrate! — a stamp that can be used to add a festive touch to greeting cards, invitations, gift-bearing envelopes and packages — was dedicated Feb. 14 at a stamp show in Mesa, AZ. “The bright and cheery stamp is […]
USPS has introduced a tool to help employees log the payment device inspections that are required each day at Post Offices and other retail locations. Employees must perform these inspections to identify tampering, including the presence of skimmers — small, hard-to-detect devices that fraudsters attach to credit card readers to steal information. The new Daily […]
Edward Rehor Jr. is a talker. Rehor, a mail handler at the Flushing Main Post Office in Queens, NY, never misses an opportunity to discuss USPS when he’s out and about in his community. “If [a customer] asks a question, I’ll try to answer it or offer to have an expert contact them. It’s just good […]
My name is Carol Capone and I’ve been with the Postal Service for 33 years. For the past year and a half, I have served as the human resources manager for Los Angeles District. I oversee learning and development, injury and workers’ compensation, safety, employee assistance, labor, staffing and hiring. In all, I have more […]
The Postal Service recently announced its Strategic Learning Initiatives for fiscal year 2020, which include a course on employee political activity and the Hatch Act. The Hatch Act is a law that prohibits postal and other federal employees from engaging in political activity while on duty, while wearing a uniform, while on federal property or […]