
photo by Boyd Loving
Boyd Loving
Ridgewood NJ, Some Ridgewood dogs LOVE their USPS letter carriers. Eddie, a South Irving Street Cockapoo, ignores social distancing guidelines as he greets Evelyn, his USPS Letter Carrier.
photo by Boyd Loving
Boyd Loving
Ridgewood NJ, Some Ridgewood dogs LOVE their USPS letter carriers. Eddie, a South Irving Street Cockapoo, ignores social distancing guidelines as he greets Evelyn, his USPS Letter Carrier.
Scott Garrett Reintroduces Bill to Rename Waldwick Post Office in Marine’s Honor
Apr 12, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Scott Garrett (NJ-05) reintroduced legislation (H.R. 1458) today to honor fallen Marine and Waldwick native Joseph D’Augustine by renaming the United States Post Office building located at 1 Walter Hammond Place in Waldwick, NJ the “Staff Sergeant Joseph D’Augustine Post Office Building.”
“Words cannot describe the gratitude our community and our country has for Joseph’s selfless commitment to protect his fellow Marines and the freedoms of the United States of America; he is a true hero,” said Garrett after reintroducing the legislation in the House. “On behalf of New Jersey’s 5th District and the Waldwick community, I believe that the Waldwick post office should be renamed to honor this young man and remember his final sacrifice forever. May we never forget Staff Sergeant D’Augustine’s bravery in the line of duty and the family and friends he left behind.”
Staff Sergeant Joseph D’Augustine was killed in action in the Helmand province of Afghanistan on March 27, 2012. D’Augustine, a 2001 Waldwick High School graduate, was assigned to the 8th Engineer Support Battalion of the 2nd Marine Logistics Group out of Camp Lejune and was a specialist trained to dismantle bombs and land mines. D’Augustine was on his fourth tour of duty overseas and his second in Afghanistan.
Garrett has received support from the entire New Jersey delegation in the House of Representatives, and all are cosponsoring the bill.
Post office nears historic default on $5B payment
Jul 30, 3:25 PM (ET)
By HOPE YEN
WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. Postal Service is bracing for a first-ever default on billions in payments due to the Treasury, adding to widening uncertainty about the mail agency’s solvency as first-class letters plummet and Congress deadlocks on ways to stem the red ink.
With cash running perilously low, two legally required payments for future postal retirees’ health benefits – $5.5 billion due Wednesday, and another $5.6 billion due in September – will be left unpaid, the mail agency said Monday. Postal officials said they also are studying whether they may need to delay other obligations. In the coming months, a $1.5 billion payment is due to the Labor Department for workers compensation, which for now it expects to make, as well as millions in interest payments to the Treasury.
The defaults won’t stir any kind of catastrophe in day-to-day mail service. Post offices will stay open, mail trucks will run, employees will get paid, current retirees will get health benefits.
But a growing chorus of analysts, labor unions and business customers are troubled by continuing losses that point to deeper, longer-term financial damage, as the mail agency finds it increasingly preoccupied with staving off immediate bankruptcy while Congress delays on a postal overhaul bill.
Ridgewood Post Office Steps Up Saves the Day
July 22,2012
PJ Blogger
Ridgewood NJ , Just a quick note about the Ridgewood post office while they have been getting a lot of flack lately on this very blog , I was at the Ridgewood post office on Saturday and got distracted leaving my keys in the Ridgewood Blogs PO Box .
The post office was already closed but within a matter of minutes I received a phone call from someone telling me I had left my keys in my box . I was still in front of the building looking at my mail and they even made a second call telling me they were closed but just ring the bell. The quick action saved the day I had a thumb drive on the key chain that was irreplaceable .
All I can say is thank you !
james Foytlin
aka PJ Blogger
Post Office Might Miss Retirees’ Payment
By JENNIFER LEVITZ
While lawmakers continue to fight over how to fix the ailing U.S. Postal Service, the agency’s money problems are only growing worse.
The Postal Service repeated on Wednesday that without congressional action, it will default—a first in its long history, a spokesman said—on a legally required annual $5.5 billion payment, due Aug. 1, into a health-benefits fund for future retirees. Action in Congress isn’t likely, as the House prepares to leave for its August recess.
The agency said a default on the payment, for 2011, wouldn’t directly affect service or its ability to pay employees and suppliers. But “these ongoing liquidity issues unnecessarily undermine confidence in the viability of the Postal Service among our customers,” said spokesman David Partenheimer.
The agency says it will default on its 2012 retiree health payment as well—also roughly $5.5 billion, due Sept. 30—if there is no legislative action by then.
Reader says ,The Ridgewood Post Office is doing a terrible job.
The Ridgewood Post Office is doing a terrible job. They have messed up our mail so much that bills are never delivered and we are charged late fees through no fault of our own. My husband went to the RPO – which doesn’t open until after 10 am. by the way – and complained.
The Postmaster couldn’t have been more disinterested and unsympathetic and said that we are the end of the route and his mail carriers don’t like walking to our block. What? If we did our jobs, like they did theirs we’d be fired! Whatever happened to their motto “through rain or snow or sleet or hail the Postal Service will never fail”?
It’s funny – sad really – how the junk mail that we don’t ask for or need always seems to find us. But not the important stuff. Can someone help us?
>
Post Office’s Rescue Plan: Junk Mail
By JENNIFER LEVITZ
Many consumers are irked by the catalogs, credit-card pitches and other “junk mail” they receive. But the U.S. Postal Service loves it—and wants to deliver more.
The agency, beset by historic losses and a plummet in first-class mail, is running promotions, easing rules and planning television and radio ads to encourage more businesses to send pitches by standard mail, the official term for bulk mailings used by marketers to prospect for customers.
“What we want to do is to make standard mail more interesting for customers so we can grow the total volume,” Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said in an interview. “We don’t call it junk mail—it’s a lucrative avenue for anyone who wants to reach customers.”