Federal prosecutors in December charged two postal workers with stealing more than $1 million in business checks at facilities in Virginia and North Carolina, The Dallas Morning News reported. There was also a mail handler in St. Louis accused of stealing 55 out of 150 packages from a truck....
Cases keep cropping up as the Postal Service struggles to pay off $188 billion in debt and unfunded liabilities, accrued largely because federal law requires it to prepay retiree healthcare and pension benefits. The agency has cut nearly 142,000 jobs since 2007, and in March 2020, it needed...
For more information on the history of the National Alliance of Postal Employees, see There’s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality, by Philip F. Rubio (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010)...
According toThe Washington Post, attorneys general from Virginia, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Washington and North Carolina are considering joining forces for a lawsuit against the Trump administration. New Jersey’s attorney general’s office released a statement toCNNthat declined to ...
“We have maintained a really close contact with our election officials in North Carolina,” said Adrienne Marshall, executive director for election and government mail services. “Of course, we’ve established some assistance at the shelters and with recommendations for change of address for voters...
President-elect Donald Trump calls his Mar-a-Lago resort the "center of the universe.” Associated PressDec. 31, 2024 Takeaways From AP's Reporting on Sarah McBride, the First Openly Trans Person Elected to Congress Sarah McBride made history in Delaware, as the first openly transgender s...
jobs during the Great Depression. Formed in 1935 as the Works Progress Administration and renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939, the WPA lasted until 1943. Many New Deal agencies, legislation, and accomplishments have been honored on United States stamps going as far back as the 1933 ...
2.Second, because of the nature of the jobs at the U.S. Postal Service, requiring the physical ability to engage in highly repetitive functions, with lifting capabilities, of reaching, bending, lifting, standing, walking, etc., throughout the day – that a modification of such physical requi...