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Hospitality shift

Top story

Hospitality shift
Bolger, NCED selling holiday meals
4 mins ago
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VP transition
Southern Area changes announced
9 mins ago
Healthy savings
Options available for medical expenses
1 hour ago

Staying grounded

Staying grounded

Limit on business trips continues
The Postal Service’s policy limiting business travel during the coronavirus pandemic has been extended until at least Jan. 19, 2021.
2 hours ago
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Safety leaders

Safety leaders

USPS announces award honorees
The Postal Service has honored one area and four districts with this year’s Safety Leadership and Vision Awards.
3 days ago

New look

New look

Ethic Office page redesigned
The USPS Ethics Office has redesigned its Blue page to give employees easier access to ethics-related information.
2 hours ago

Neighborly help

Neighborly help

Carrier’s over-the-fence chats lead to deal
Letter Carrier Brina Uhrbrock’s neighbors own a gift, novelty and souvenir company.
3 days ago

Still open

Still open

Few weeks left to make benefits changes
Postal Service employees have a few more weeks to change their health coverage or enroll in a new plan.
3 days ago

Holiday savings

Holiday savings

Visa promotion now underway
USPS is offering savings on Visa gift card purchases at select Post Office locations this month.
3 days ago

Transitioning to the future

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Transitioning to the future

Appointments, alignments announced
The Postal Service has made several leadership announcements, including the retirement of a top executive, multiple promotions and a series of functional alignments.
4 days ago

‘Home’ for Christmas

‘Home’ for Christmas

USPS debuts holiday-themed ad
The one-minute commercial features the classic tune “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.”
4 days ago

Health care ABCs

Health care ABCs

Do you know these terms?
If you don’t know common health insurance terminology, you’re not alone.
4 days ago

Touch points

Touch points

News Quiz: Test your postal knowledge
How much do you know about Informed Delivery, open season, shipping guidelines and other newsworthy topics?
4 days ago

Kindness of strangers

Kindness of strangers

USPS Operation Santa letters requested nationwide
Operation Santa, the Postal Service’s annual program to aid people in need during the holidays, is going nationwide for the first time in its 108-year history.
5 days ago

Home for the holidays

Home for the holidays

USPS sends seasonal mailer to customers
The Postal Service is sending households across the nation a mailer that highlights how mail helps people connect during the holidays.
5 days ago

Kids’ stuff

Kids’ stuff

Tips to keep children safe online
Do you know how to keep your child safe from internet dangers?
5 days ago

Big four

Big four

Understanding health coverage types
Do you understand the different types of health plans available to Postal Service employees?
5 days ago

Scanning snapshot

News Briefs

Scanning snapshot

Open season webinar, fair also highlighted
Check out this week’s scanning snapshot and read about an open season webinar and virtual benefits fair.
5 days ago

Hello, 2021

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Hello, 2021

USPS announces upcoming stamps
The Postal Service has announced some of next year’s planned stamp releases.
6 days ago

Balancing benefits

Balancing benefits

Video offers open season overview
In a new video, Chief Human Resources Officer Isaac Cronkhite provides Postal Service employees with an overview of open season.
6 days ago

New prices

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New prices

USPS announces additional changes for 2021
Overall, these changes would raise prices approximately 3.5 percent for Priority Mail service and 1.2 percent for Priority Mail Express service.
1 week ago

USPS finances

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USPS finances

Year-end results reported
The Postal Service has reported its financial results for fiscal year 2020.
1 week ago
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Heroes’ Corner

  • Neighbors notice

    Gratitude expressed for life-saving employee

    Today

    Neighbors notice

    Gratitude expressed for life-saving employee
    Today at midnight

    Rural Carrier Jacqueline Tannehill was recently making deliveries in a Springfield, IL, neighborhood when she grew concerned about an older customer whose mail was piling up.

    Tannehill knocked on the woman’s front door and only heard dogs barking in response.

    The Postal Service employee alerted a neighbor, knowing he was also a local police officer.

    Emergency responders soon checked on the customer, discovered that she had fallen and sustained a head injury, and rushed her to a hospital.

    Residents throughout the neighborhood later thanked Tannehill for her attentiveness.

    The customer is recovering from the incident.

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Best Practices

  • Fit to print

    Using clearance process for publishing projects

    Oct. 26

    Fit to print

    Using clearance process for publishing projects
    Oct. 26 at 10:34 a.m.

    Tanya Lyle wants to help Postal Service employees share accurate, approved information with their colleagues.

    Lyle, the USPS brand and policy manager, oversees the organization’s clearance process, which is used to review and approve forms, directives, Postal Bulletin articles and other official documents before they are published.

    Through clearance, employees seeking to publish documents must first consult with other offices to learn different viewpoints; identify and resolve differences, procedural conflicts and duplications; and take steps to avoid potential legal and labor issues.

    “The clearance process is critical to ensuring we distribute the most accurate information possible,” Lyle says.

    To help employees complete the clearance process, Lyle encourages them to follow these steps:

    • Go to PolicyNet, the Postal Service’s policy website.

    • In the left-hand column, select “Clearance.”

    • Under “Select a Clearance Memo,” choose the clearance document that best aligns with your project.

    Because USPS frequently updates its clearance documents to improve ease of use, Lyle also recommends employees bookmark PolicyNet’s Clearance page and visit it regularly to ensure they are using the most up-to-date forms.

    “Using the correct clearances can save you — and the Postal Service — a lot of time and effort,” she says.

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On the Job

  • Recruiting duty

    Employee helps USPS hire veterans

    Oct. 2

    Recruiting duty

    Employee helps USPS hire veterans
    Oct. 2 at 10:44 a.m.

    My name is Neana Long and I’m the veteran programs recruiter working at Postal Service headquarters in Washington, DC. I focus on military veteran recruitment and retention through hiring initiatives and employee veteran outreach.

    I was in the Marine Corps from 1993-2001, and I believe my status as a veteran allows me to have insight into effective ways to reach service members.

    Before the coronavirus pandemic, my colleagues and I were going to job fairs and military installations all over the country. Now we have adapted to doing things virtually, including participating in a few online events each week.

    I also spend time training our human resources field recruiters and providing them with the resources they need to better recruit veterans. We have hiring targets every year, and the field is a big part of helping us meet those numbers.

    Forging relationships with veteran-related organizations is an important part of my job. We work with other federal agencies and a number of military-affiliated groups.

    I came on board with the Postal Service in 2007, first as an account manager, then a senior sales representative and then a trade show representative. I did some recruiting when I was a Marine, and working sales allowed me to get out and talk to people about what products and services USPS offers. Moving to my current position just seemed like the right fit.

    My favorite part of the job is putting together the veteran recognition events like those held for Military Appreciation Month and Veterans Day. The position has really evolved since I began the job in 2018, and we do a lot more for our military members within the organization. We publish Mail Call Quarterly, which is our veterans-only newsletter, and we launched the veteran self-identification survey on HERO last year.

    Outside of work, my husband and I like to spend time with our extended families. I’ve also recently gotten back into my running routine.

    I’m always interested in other people’s ideas and willing to collaborate with anyone in the organization to do right by our nation’s veterans.

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On the Move

  • New gigs

    Executive, manager news

    Nov. 17

    New gigs

    Executive, manager news
    Nov. 17 at 10:47 a.m.

    Here’s a look at some recent changes in the USPS leadership ranks:

    • Wendy M. McLlwain, senior plant manager at the Suburban Maryland Processing and Distribution Center in Gaithersburg, was named acting Capital District manager.

    • Carlos Nunez, South Jersey District’s operations programs support manager, was named acting Central Pennsylvania District manager.

    • Sherrod M. Stanard, plant manager at the Southern Maryland Processing and Distribution Center in Capitol Heights, was named acting plant manager at the Suburban Maryland Processing and Distribution Center.

    • Richmond, VA, Postmaster Edward B. Williamson was named Baltimore’s acting Postmaster.

The List

  • Gobble, gobble

    5 facts about turkeys

    Nov. 17

    Gobble, gobble

    5 facts about turkeys
    Nov. 17 at 10:58 a.m.

    To help you get ready for Thanksgiving next week, here are five facts about the star attraction at the traditional holiday feast.

    1. Turkeys are capable of fascinating physical feats. According to the Audubon Society, wild turkeys can fly as fast as 60 miles per hour. Turkeys also have excellent vision — seeing three times more clearly than 20/20 — and they can see in color and have a 270-degree field of vision.

    2. Benjamin Franklin was a fan. The first Postmaster General admired the turkey, although it isn’t true that he advocated naming it the national bird. According to the Franklin Institute, he didn’t like the bald eagle, stating in a letter to his daughter that it was a “Bird of bad moral Character” whereas the turkey was a “much more respectable Bird … a Bird of Courage.”

    3. George H.W. Bush was the first president to officially pardon a turkey. This occurred during 1989, Bush’s first year in office, although tales of spared turkeys go back to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, whose son took a liking to a turkey destined for Christmas dinner. Later, Harry Truman became the first president to appear in a photo op with a turkey that would later be served, while sometime around the Nixon administration, the president began sending the turkey to a petting farm after holding the traditional receiving ceremony.

    4. Turkeys almost went extinct. The wild turkey was hunted nearly to extinction by the early 1900s, when the population reached a low of around 30,000 birds, according to Smithsonian Magazine. Restoration programs across North America have brought the numbers up to 7 million today.

    5. Turkeys have been featured on several stamps over the years. These include a 3-cent 1956 Wildlife Conservation stamp that featured a wild turkey; a 50-cent 1994 release that featured “Freedom From Want,” Norman Rockwell’s famous painting depicting a family’s turkey dinner; and a 44-cent 2009 stamp that showed a turkey float in a New York City Thanksgiving Day parade.

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Mailbag

  • Barbara Wilson, Des Moines, IA:

    I’m very happy about the stamps previewed in “Hello, 2021,” including the releases honoring our Asian community.

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