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U.S. Post Service worker Deborah Ford retired this week with a perfect attendance record: 44 years on the job, without taking a single sick day. That means the 64-year-old Ford (above) logged just short of 11,000 workdays. ...

As Hurricane Sandy began tearing up the East Coast, thousands evacuated their homes, schools closed, New York's transit system halted, the stock exchange fell quiet, federal offices in Washington, D.C., shut down, and most employers told their workers to stay home and keep dry. But a few employers did not: ...

By Hope Yen WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday agreed to delay the closing of 252 mail processing centers and 3,700 local post offices until mid-May. In a statement, the cash-strapped agency said it would hold off on closings by several weeks to give Congress more time to pass ...

In anticipation of an increase in the number of holiday packages that U.S. consumers expect to ship this year, parcel-delivery giant UPS says it plans on hiring 55,000 seasonal workers to help keep pace with demand. The shipping company anticipates delivering more than 120 million packages worldwide this year ...

Of all the Steve Jobs encomiums that accompanied the death of the former Apple CEO, this may be the greatest one yet. Police say that Kentucky-based UPS worker Raylon Brooks was so eager to get his hands on the new iPhone 4S he broke the cardinal rule of professional mail delivery -- thou shalt not open a ...

By Michael B. Sauter Since textile workers in England were replaced by mechanized looms in the 19th century new technologies have been continuously taking the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of laborers. In the 20th century -- the age of machinery, robotics, and computers -- the United States has seen ...

Plenty of Americans would like to get paid to do nothing while at work, and it seems that workers for the U.S. Postal Service already enjoy that perk, although fewer of them are doing so. The deliverer of the nation's mail paid $4.3 million for nearly 171,000 hours of standby time during the first six months ...

By Randolph E. Schmid WASHINGTON -- The financially strapped U.S. Postal Service is considering cutting as many as 120,000 jobs. Facing a second year of losses totaling $8 billion or more, the agency also wants to pull its workers out of the retirement and health benefits plans covering federal workers and ...

He said it was tantamount to slavery. Of course, when Ryan Bradford was describing his experience as a transitional employee ("TE") of the United States Postal Service, he knew he was being overly dramatic. Bradford, who was fired from the USPS after working for them in the greater San Diego area, is in his ...