BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$1.0B
- Private
- US
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Postmaster General John E. Potter, in testimony today before a House subcommittee, urged lawmakers to provide the Postal Service with greater flexibility with regard to mandated retiree health benefit payments. The Postal Service asked for no financial assistance from Congress. As a result of the economic recession, the Postal Service has predicted that mail volume will likely plunge to 180 billion pieces by the end of fiscal year 2009 (Sept. 31), from 212 billion pieces as recently as 2007. At the hearing, Potter described Postal Service actions to sustain long-term economic viability, including reductions in fixed, variable and non-personnel costs over the next three years. The $900-billion mailing industry employs 9 million Americans in businesses ranging from catalog sales to paper manufacturing and printing. The industry is the conduit for roughly $1 trillion in commerce annually, represents nearly 7.5 percent of the GDP and drives our nation's economy. The Postal Service is at the center of the mailing industry, playing an invaluable role in the United States economy and maintaining an economic presence in every community in America.
Number of Employees 25,000
Contact Information
2 Massachusetts Ave Ne
Washington, District of Columbia 20002-9997
1 202 268 4909
NAICS Code Local Messengers and Local Delivery: 492210
Recent Events
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AT&T Government Solutions awarded USD120m four-year contract extension by US Postal Service
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Emptoris Awarded Contract From U.S. Postal Service for Sourcing Software
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Washington man sues Postal Service over firing
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UPS announces average rate increases of 4.9% for 2010
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Child Support Company Sued By U.S. Postal Service
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Media Advisory: U.S. Postal Service Unveils Mendez v. Westminster Stamp to Mark Historic Court Cases...
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FedEx extends home delivery service via the Postal Service to all retailers
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Post office outlet finds spot in city
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Mailers Fear New USPS Reform May be Needed
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Caspio Announces Enterprise Agreement with U.S. Postal Service
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About 2,700 have signed petition to save Lantana post office
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Alpine Air Signs $72 Million Contract With USPS
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Alpine Air Signs $72 Million Contract With USPS
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Alpine Air Express: Alpine Air Signs $72 Million Contract With USPS
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SHAPIRO: September brings busy days in Ashland
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Troux Awarded Contract by U.S. Postal Service for Enterprise Software
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Hundreds of post offices may close, including one in Berkley
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Deep in my heart
- 2005-12-19
Mr. and Mrs. Richard LeGrier Jr. celebrated 50 years of love and happiness by renewing their wedding vows at Greater New Hope Baptist Church in Baldwin, LA. Mrs. Jessie LeGrier retired as a retail manager with J.C. Penney. Her mate of five decades retired as a former U.S. Postal Service...
Delivery services woo holiday temporary workers with competitive pay, benefits.
- 2004-11-24
By Diane E. Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 24--One day, Ed Blain hopes to deliver sermons from the pulpit. This holiday season, he's happy to help sort packages. Blain lives in Brookline and studies divinity at Holy...
Direct & Current
- 2004-09-01
SEPTEMBER 2004THE OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION OSHA has been ordered by a federal judge to disclose the worst safety records for worker injury and illness rates, including company names. The ruling followed a Freedom of Information Act request filed in October 2002 by the New York Times and applies...
US District Court dismisses postal worker's Title VII retaliation
- 2004-07-23
Finding insufficient evidence that the U.S. Postal Service discriminated against the plaintiff, Scott Sieber, when it fired him, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York granted summary judgment to the U.S. Postal Service and dismissed the case. In Sieber v. Postmaster General United...
Workers' comp disparities called 'perverse': at a recent hearing, Postmaster General John Potter illustrated the disparities in the United States Postal Service's workers' comp benefit system
- 2004-05-01
Two workers, each age 55, each with 30 years of service at the end of 1993, and each of the same rank end up with very different benefits. One selects optional retirement from the active workforce and the other continues to receive workers' comp benefits. But over a 10-year...
When a ricin threat surfaced on Capitol Hill recently, Washington postal supervisors exposed workers to a potentially deadly replay of the 2001 anthrax attacks
- 2004-04-13
Byline: Timothy W. Maier, INSIGHT For U.S. Postal Service employees the story is all too familiar. When a deadly white powder was discovered Feb. 2 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill employees immediately were quarantined, evacuated and sent to decontamination showers. Dirksen and the Hart and...
USPS Workers at Beaumont, Texas, Facility Evacuate at Threat of Anthrax.
- 2004-02-07
By Sarah Moore, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Sarah Moore, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
U.S. Postal Service: Issues Associated with Anthrax Testing at the Wallingford Facility.
- 2003-06-01
GAO-03-787T May 19, 2003 The anthrax attacks of 2001 resulted in 23 cases of the disease, 5 deaths, and the contamination of numerous U.S. Postal Service facilities, including the Southern Connecticut Processing and Distribution Center in Wallingford, Connecticut the Wallingford facility. But none of the workers at the...
U.S. Postal Service: Better Guidance Is Needed to Improve Communication Should Anthrax Contamination Occur in the Future.
- 2003-05-01
GAO-03-316 April 7, 2003 In 2001, letters contaminated with anthrax resulted in 23 cases of the disease, 5 deaths, and the contamination of numerous U.S. Postal Service facilities, including the Southern Connecticut Processing and Distribution Center in Wallingford, Connecticut the Wallingford facility. GAO was asked to address, among...
Wilkes-Barre Congressman Says City Mail Center Must Keep Performance High.
- 2003-04-26
By Jerry Lynott, The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 26--WILKES-BARRE, Pa.--Though the U.S. Postal Service has no immediate plans to move jobs out of town from its South Main Street mail processing center, it's no time to relax, U.S....
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