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Postal Service Customer Satisfaction Reaches 4-Year High

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:40:49 CST

94 percent of customers surveyed rated the Postal Service as "excellent, very good or good" in the period July 1 to Sept. 30, 2009.

Letter Carrier Delivers Safe Performance

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:11:22 CST

Think about pulling in and out of traffic, hundreds of times a day, while delivering mail without an at-fault accident � not even a fender-bender involving a mailbox, trashcan or decorative rock. Here is a Postal Service employee who has accomplished that feat.

D.C. District Court Clarifies Employees' Obligation to Exhaust Administrative Remedies Before Filing in Court

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 20:13:48 CST

To have jurisdiction in a federal court, a federal employee must show that he exhausted his administrative remedies by allowing the agency and/or Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to process the case. Trouble arises in cases where a federal employee exhausted his administrative remedies for the underlying discrimination complaint, but not for claims of retaliation.

When the Prize is Safety, Every Employee Wins

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 07:16:36 CST

What's up? Letter carriers and retail associates in their crisp blue uniforms, rural carriers and maintenance employees in casual attire, and managers and dignitaries in suits mingle around the staging area shaking hands and patting each other on the back.

Kentucky Rail Museum Opens Railway Mail Service Car

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:04:27 CST

Racing across this vast nation, Railway Postal Clerks sorted mail aboard specially retrofitted train cars. The Railway Mail Service revolutionized the way mail was processed and distributed for more than a century.