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Sure sign summer is near, Cedar Point opens this weekend
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For rollercoaster lovers, it is the surest sign that summer is right around the corner. Cedar Point opens for the season this weekend.
One of the new attractions at the Sandusky park is the Dinosaurs Alive exhibit. It's being billed as both thrilling and educational and is supposed to give park visitors an up close look at jurassic giants.
There are 50 animatronic dinos in the exhibit each scaled perfectly to give an accurate sense of their true size millions of years ago. The exhibit sits under a rollercoaster at the park.
The park has also come up with a way for people to skip long lines. It's called, "Fast Lane." For an extra fee, riders basically get to jump to the front of the line on nearly 20 rides.
And don't forget this year, there will be no Wildcat rollercoaster. Cedar Point shut it down permanently because of low ridership.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Jul. 13, 2010) -- The U.S.-based Space Foundation and the UK-based Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) are co-sponsoring a lecture on July 22 at RUSI's Whitehall headquarters in London offering " Perspectives on the Military Use of Space." The event is being held during the July 19-25 Farnborough International Airshow (FIA) in nearby Hampshire, England, and is open to the public.
The lecture program will feature three presentations:
The event is free, and open to anyone interested. RUSI membership is not required, but attendees must register via the RUSI website at www.rusi.org/events/ref:E4C212EE0A420C. Doors open at 1700 hrs, with speakers presenting and taking questions 1730 hrs -1830 hrs. Tea and coffee will be available. Finish will be at 1900 hrs prompt.
"The United Kingdom is becoming increasingly reliant on space assets and just recently launched a UK Space Agency," said Pulham. "This lecture provides an opportunity to underscore the importance of space in military operations, both for nations with a long space heritage and for those that are moving rapidly into the space arena."
The lecture launches the UK Ministry of Defence's Space Primer, published by the DCDC, and features information from the 2010 U.S. National Space Policy. It also will provide an analysis on the burgeoning global space economy based upon information in the Space Foundation's flagship publication, The Space Report 2010: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity.
Involvement in the lecture further expands the Space Foundation's international outreach at FIA. Other Space Foundation activities during the internationally acclaimed air show include informal and formal meetings with U.S. and European aerospace leaders attending FIA and an official tour of the FIA grounds during "Space Day" on July 21.
About the Space Foundation
The Space Foundation is the foremost advocate for all sectors of the global space industry - civil, commercial, military, and intelligence. In support of its mission to advance space-related endeavors to inspire, enable, and propel humanity, the Space Foundation conducts space awareness activities, educational programs that bring space into the classroom, and major industry events, including the world-renowned National Space Symposium, held each spring in Colorado Springs, Colo. Founded in 1983, the international, nonprofit Space Foundation is an expert in all aspects of global space. It publishes The Space Report: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity each year and provides three indices that track daily performance of the space industry. Through its Space Certification and Space Technology Hall of Fame® programs, the Space Foundation recognizes space-based technologies and innovations that have been adapted to improve life on Earth. Headquartered in Colorado Springs, the Space Foundation conducts research and analysis and government affairs activities from its Washington, D.C., office and has field representatives in Houston, Texas, and Cape Canaveral, Fla. For more information, visit www.SpaceFoundation.org. Follow the Space Foundation on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and read about the latest space news and Space Foundation activities in Space Watch.
About FIA
Held every two years, FIA is a seven-day international aerospace show that demonstrates civilian and military aircraft to potential customers and investors. Like the Paris and Berlin Airshows, FIA is an important event for the aerospace industry, particularly for announcing new developments and orders. FIA is organized by Farnborough International Limited, a subsidiary of the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC). The 2010 event will include five exhibition halls, an outdoor aircraft static display, aircraft demonstrations, and industry meetings and events. The first five days are restricted to trade attendees; the event is open to the public on the weekend.
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The introductory post hopefully gave you a better idea of our team charter of enabling our ISV partners and their products to achieve maximum scalability on our data platform. I wanted to share some more today about how we work with our ISVs. The process is very collaborative and I attempt to describe the initial step in this post (with more detail in later entries).
The first step is really to learn about our partners application and what are the requirements from the application from a technical and business level from the end customer viewpoint. The customer viewpoint is very important as it helps us understand the performance, availability and scalability aspects to meet the needs of a business. Most of our partners build apps that can be called 'Tier 1' – this means that the customer's business will be impacted if there is down time or loss or performance degradation.
Next we try to understand the application and how it is put together from a technical perspective. There are several tools to help with this but at the end of the day it is working with our customers side by side in their facility or ours. The picture below is taken from a recent engagement where an ISV came to our labs in Redmond. Our lab is located in Building 20 on the corporate campus and provides an excellent environment for collaboration, whiteboarding and discussion.
We have a great facility that includes a dedicated ISV lab which has huge whiteboards and the furniture/layout facilitates collaboration as we work side by side. The picture below is taken from an architecture design session and we went into great detail to understand the ISV app architecture, the data access architecture, schema and other areas. Once we have a good understanding we can recommend some areas of improvements that will not require fundamental changes in application code but would provide a performance improvements. In the case above we saw several hundred recompiles in the application code (due to the way that SQL was generated without parameterization). This was changed to use a stored procedure and resulted in significant gains due to the recompiles going away. The ISV was happy and was able to provide this change via a patch to a customer that was about to go live with the application. The customer was happier as they were able to meet their user SLA and get unbeatable price/performance with the app running on ISQL Server on an industry standard servers(X64). In the next post I will describe in more detail some of our engagements and learnings


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So I am american and my SO is Mexican. We want to bring her up as mexcian as possible but I just want to know if anyone has any advice for what i might be getting into!
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I'm 100% mexican... my Dh is american.german.italian.irish. I call my kids Heinz 57!!! Lol. but they are Happy to have a lil of everything in them and embrace it all. :-)
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I am a mexican american as well , my stbh is mexican and we both speak both languages here to our 2 kids. My 3 yr old speaks more english but she also speaks spanish just not that much. Now with my 2 yr old we have to speak to him in spanish since he is having alil hard time speaking so his therapist told us to stick to one language with him for now.
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The days of hackers and computer geeks being pegged as pasty, 90-pound weaklings are over. In fact, they've been flexing some serious muscle lately with tough-guy bravado, and they're intent on saving the day.
Need proof? Look no further than the international hacker movement known as Anonymous. The Guy Fawkes-masked collective just released an Internet video threatening vengeance on arguably one of the world's most savage and violent criminal outfits: Mexico's Zetas drug cartel.
PHOTOS: Hacker's Playbook: Common Tactics
Claiming to be from Anonymous "Veracruz, Mexico, and the world," the YouTube video is a response to the Zetas cartel's alleged kidnapping of an Anonymous member.
"You made a huge mistake by taking one of us. Release him," says a masked, computer-voiced individual in the video.
Reminiscent of a WWE hype video, Anonymous puts forth an ultimatum to Zetas: either release the Anonymous member, or they will release the identities of local police, journalists, taxi drivers and other allies who conspire with the Zetas.
"We cannot defend ourselves with a weapon, but we can do this with their cars, houses, bars, brothels ..." the video message adds, alluding to properties and possessions owned by cartel supporters. "It will not be difficult. We all know who they are and where they are."
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Anonymous has given the Zetas cartel until the end of the week to release their kidnapped member.
"If anything happens to him, you will always remember this upcoming Nov. 5," the message states. "Knowledge is free. We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forget. Wait and see."
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What would you get the players and coaches on the Arizona football and men's basketball teams?
Well, GOAZCATS.com has put together a short list of stocking stuffers this Christmas that each could use moving forward into 2014.
Rich Rodriguez: A true quarterback competition in the spring
If there is one thing the Wildcats could use, it's a quality competition for the starting job B.J. Denker will leave behind after the AdvoCare V100 Bowl.
Rodriguez should have no shortage of options this time around. Health and a lack of numbers were an issue this past spring and carried into the fall.
Now, he will have five scholarship quarterbacks available when spring ball opens.
Ka'Deem Carey: National respect on New Year's Eve
That's all the two-time consensus All-American running back wanted when asked what he would like to see on his NFL evaluation when the results return.
While Carey is not completely under the radar, he is sometimes forgotten in the discussion of top running backs in the country. But he has the stage to make an even bigger name for himself.
The junior will put his skills up against Doak Walker Award winner Andre Williams when Arizona meets Boston College at the end of the year.
Sean Miller: A consistent eighth man
What do you get the coach who seemingly has everything but a national championship ring right now?
Right now, Miller might say he wants his already standout defense to become the undisputed best in the nation. In reality, the Wildcats in their current state would still be able to stand up to any challenge out there.
But what UA could certainly use is another contributor to a rotation that is essentially seven deep. The Wildcats may be on the verge of finding that extra body to prevent a premature burnout come February or March.
Elliott Pitts has made limited appearances in each of the past two contests and has shown flashes. This is right around the time Miller said the freshman could find a solid role, too.
The other positive sign Monday night was the stat line from senior guard Jordin Mayes. He cracked the scoring column for the first time since Nov. 11 and finished with five points, two rebounds, two assists and a steal in nine minutes.
A short spell is all the Wildcats really need to alleviate some of the workload every now and then.
Brandon Ashley: More credit
It is easy to overlook a number of players on Miller's balanced squad. A case could be made for three or four different players as the most valuable player through the first 13 games.
But nobody gets passed on more than the sophomore forward. Entering the season, the attention understandably went to star freshman Aaron Gordon. With each passing game, however, Ashley has proved he is the one with the more polished game.
Ashley has added a 3-point shot to his arsenal, connecting on 8 of 18 attempts after shooting just three - all makes - last season. He has cooled off a bit after a hot start but is still second on the team at 54.4 percent shooting from the field.
At 6-8 and 230 pounds, Ashley is essentially the backup center when Kaleb Tarczewski is out of the game.
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HARI SREENIVASAN: U.S. economic growth at the end of 2009 was the best since 2003. "NewsHour" correspondent Kwame Holman has that story.
KWAME HOLMAN: The latest on the economy came shortly before the president left for a day trip to Baltimore to talk up job creation. The Commerce Department reported the gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. It marked the second quarter of growth in a row.
U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Just to give you a sense of perspective there, that's the fastest economic growth in six years. And it's a stark improvement over the rapid and terrible decline that we were experiencing one year ago.
KWAME HOLMAN: The president welcomed the news as he toured the Chesapeake Machine Company in Baltimore. But he warned again that tough times are a long way from over.
BARACK OBAMA: Even though the storms of the past two years are starting to lessen, the wreckage that's been left behind remains. While the Recovery Act has created and saved two million jobs, this recession has cost us seven million jobs. So, there's still a big gap, still a big hole that we have to fill.
KWAME HOLMAN: Indeed, 10 percent of Americans still are out of work, a level not expected to recede before the end of the year. And slow consumer spending still could cause the economy to weaken again.
In response, the president called for $33 billion in tax credits for small firms that hire new employees. He previewed the plan in his State of the Union address.
Democratic leaders in Congress have signaled they already are moving on a jobs bill. Senate Democrats said they will have a plan by next week. And House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said his chamber could act quickly as well.
In the meantime, the president reviewed the situation late today with his embattled treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner. He's come under growing criticism over financial bailouts, including a contentious congressional hearing this week.
HARI SREENIVASAN: Stocks fell today, despite the report of the surging growth in the fourth quarter. Wall Street focused more on signs the surge may be short- lived. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 53 points, to close at 10067. The Nasdaq fell more than 31 points, to close at 2147. Overall, this was the market's worst month since last February. The Dow ended with a loss of 3.5 percent. The Nasdaq fell more than 5 percent.
Toyota moved today to begin fixing a gas pedal problem that has forced it to stop selling most models in the United States. The pedals can stick, forcing the car to accelerate out of control. The Associated Press reported new parts are being sent first to factories. The problem affects about 4.2 million vehicles in North America, Europe, and China. Toyota is a "NewsHour" funder.
Three more Americans have been killed in Afghanistan. That makes 29 this month. A NATO announcement today said the latest fatalities were two U.S. troops and one civilian. There were no details on how they died. And Afghan officials reported six Taliban fighters were killed in a seven-hour shoot-out in the southern city of Lashkar Gah. Militants occupied a vacant building near an army barracks and machine-gunned government offices. It was similar to an assault in Kabul two weeks ago.
In Britain today, former Prime Minister Tony Blair made his long-awaited appearance before a British commission investigating the Iraq war.
PROTESTER: Blair lied!
PROTESTERS: Thousands died!
HARI SREENIVASAN: Blair had to avoid more than 150 protesters outside a London convention hall and chants of "Jail Tony" and "Blair lied, thousands died." But once he took his seat inside, Blair defended his decision to have Britain join the U.S. in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
TONY BLAIR, former prime minister, Britain: The primary consideration for me was to send an absolutely powerful, clear and unremitting message that, after September the 11th, if you were a regime engaged in WMD, you had to stop.
HARI SREENIVASAN: Indeed, the former prime minister said there were strong fears that Saddam Hussein already had, or was working hard to obtain, chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons.
TONY BLAIR: So far as understanding the decision I took — and, frankly, would take again — if there was any possibility that he could develop weapons of mass destruction, we should stop him. That was my view. That was my view then. That is my view now.
HARI SREENIVASAN: The five-member panel pressed Blair on exactly when he offered to support then-President Bush in the invasion of Iraq. Previous witnesses had claimed it was in 2002, more than a year before parliament approved military action.
PANELIST: Do you think you gave him any commitments?
TONY BLAIR: The only commitment I gave, and I gave this very openly at the meeting, was a commitment to deal with Saddam. Now, we could deal with it…
PANELIST: So, you were at one that you had to deal with…
TONY BLAIR: Absolutely.
PANELIST: So…
TONY BLAIR: And that wasn't a private commitment. That was a public commitment.
PANELIST: So — so, you were agreed…
HARI SREENIVASAN: The former leader acknowledged some errors, but it wasn't enough for relatives of some of the British troops killed in Iraq. WOMAN: I'm really disgusted in him, the way that he spoke.
MAN: He's a traitor to his country, to his soldiers. And he — but — and he won't be brought to justice. He's not — you know, he's not going to pay for it.
HARI SREENIVASAN: This is Britain's third investigation into the Iraq war, which resulted in the deaths of 179 British troops. The British withdrew from Iraq last year.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion to research new vaccines for the world's poorest nations. It more than doubles the amount the foundation has already given to vaccine research. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates made the announcement today at the world Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
BILL GATES, founder, MICROSOFT: Today, we're announcing a commitment over this next decade which we think of as a decade of vaccines having incredible impact. We're announcing that we will spend over $10 billion on vaccines. That will help invent new vaccines. That will help get some new vaccines out. And that will help increase the coverage.
HARI SREENIVASAN: The goal is to make sure 90 percent of the children in poor nations are immunized. For the record, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is a "NewsHour" underwriter.
A jury in Wichita, Kansas, has convicted an abortion opponent of murder for killing an abortion provider last May. The panel deliberated just 37 minutes today before returning the verdict against Scott Roeder. He admitted gunning down Dr. George Tiller inside a church in Wichita last May. He faces a mandatory life sentence. Tiller was one of the only doctors in the U.S. performing late-term abortions.


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GREENVILLE - Looking back on it, it's easy to see why.
"We did not defend and rebound in a way that would give us an opportunity to beat a team that played as well as Furman did," coach Darrin Horn said. "We have games where we don't defend and rebound, and don't get much out of our interior, especially somebody as important as Sam Muldrow, it's going to be hard for us to beat good teams."
South Carolina's chances of success are built on three steps. One, be solid on defense and at least equal the opponent in rebounding, if not coming out ahead. Two, win every hustle play. Three, the offense needs to go in first, then out so that everybody has a chance to contribute, because there is no one go-to scorer.
In Wednesday's 91-75 loss at Furman, the Gamecocks failed at all three.
USC was out-rebounded 44-26 by the Paladins, a team whose tallest players were 6-foot-9. The Gamecocks were only out-rebounded 44-35 by No. 2 Ohio State, a team whose smallest starter was 6-5.
Furman found every loose ball, broke almost every press and made every extra pass. USC couldn't find the open men to guard and gave up a 52.6 percent shooting night.
Muldrow was nearly mute, with six points, two rebounds and four fouls, while fellow posts Lakeem Jackson and Malik Cooke were equally silent. The trio combined for 14 points and 13 boards, and as against the Buckeyes, the guards locked up and had to take hurried shots when they couldn't bounce the ball inside.
Bruce Ellington scored a game-high 31 points but despite channeling his inner Downey, couldn't get enough help. The Gamecocks cut it to three a couple of times, and had it at a manageable seven with 1:45 to go, but three layups keyed by two USC turnovers and one broken defensive assignment made the deficit 13 in a scant 14 seconds.
"We've just got to work on getting better going inside," Ellington said. "Get the ball inside to Big Sam, let him do his thing, then kick it out."
Muldrow took some of the blame, saying he didn't play very well, but said it was also a team-wide issue.
"We played great offensively, there were just things we didn't do on the defensive end," he said.
VICTIMIZED: The Gamecocks (7-3) began pressing early in the second half and it began to pay off. Furman (8-2) was caught in two 10-second violations and often when it broke the press, was taking rushed shots and letting USC fly past for the rebound.
But there were those other times that really stung.
It's a fact of the press - it may work on trapping the ball, but if the opponent breaks it, that means there's a wide-open man somewhere. Furman kept wiggling out of those situations, USC would be caught a man down and have to hack somebody to prevent an easy shot.
Most of the time, the hack-ee was Furman's Amu Saaka, who was hit several times when he was attempting to dunk from the elbow. It was fine with him - no dunks went down but several layups did, and he set a school record by going a perfect 14-of-14 from the line.
Then there were the other times, like when Stephen Spinella and Jackson had Darryl Evans trapped in the corner beside USC's bench. Despite the four arms in his face, about to fall out-of-bounds and everybody on the Gamecocks' sideline screaming at him, Evans leaped, threw to the other corner and saw Jordan Miller sink a wide-open 3-pointer.
"We put ourselves in a position where we had to press, and it was the only reason we were able to get back in it," Horn said. "When you do that, you're going to give up a few easy ones. The problem was we dug ourselves too big a hole."
WHO?: Senior Justin Dehm was averaging 4.4 points per game. He'd made three 3-pointers over his last four games.
In the first half on Wednesday, he stroked five, on five attempts. Dehm finished with those 15 points after hardly playing in the second half.
STATES LINED: Another smack to the face after the game - Furman's Noah States, the team's second-leading scorer, didn't play.
States suffered a groin pull and missed the Paladins' last game, but was slated to re-join the starting lineup against USC. He didn't, Colin Reddick taking his place and scoring six points with six rebounds.
OUCH: Furman beat the Gamecocks for the first time in 30 years. It wasn't as bad as the last lengthy streak that was broken - last year, Wofford beat USC for the first time in 70 years.
BENCH STRENGTH: Because he is not on scholarship, redshirting junior Murphy Holloway would have to provide his own travel if he wanted to come to the game. Holloway did both, showing up well before the tip to talk to his teammates and wish them well. He also helped rebound during shootaround and was allowed to sit on the bench.
Once the block on Holloway's transfer from Ole Miss runs out (at the end of the school year), he will be allowed to be placed on scholarship. He is expected to fill out the open scholarships for 2011-12 along with incoming freshmen Anthony Gill and Damien Leonard.
BREAK IT DOWN: The Gamecocks are off for the holidays, although Ellington said he encouraged every one of his teammates to spend their break in the gym. USC is scheduled to practice in Columbia on Sunday and will host Jacksonville State on Dec. 29.
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Windows Media Encoder 9 Sound Problem
ive looked everywhere for WME 9 forum cant find it.
maybe somebody here can help me out.
i start encoding screen capture to file archive and when i play it the sound is really really low... can hardly hear anything... why is it recording on such a low sound.
ive tried messing around with the compression modes... no luck.
and for some reason in the sources tab it doesnt recognize my sound card so i choose default audio device.. and thats my sound card... it does recored the sound but very very low.
any way to solve this.
Thanks in advance.
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How about other sound device such as headphones? Please understand Windows Media Encoder 9 only can run properly in Windows 7 32-bit version. If you are running 64-bit system, it is not capable of accessing the Sound card or the windows sound options. However, you could use Expression Encoder v3 instead of Windows Media Encoder 9.
If you are running 32-bit system, I suggest loading the latest sound card driver from the manufacture's site and install it manually. Also try to install the Windows Media Encoder 9 in compatibility mode.
Right click the install file -> properties -> compatibility tab -> Run this program in compatibility mode for: Windows Vista (SP2), check the Privilege Level as well.
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Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
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Hey Niki Han.
im glad somebody finally addressed to me
i have winodws 7 64 bit.
ive just installed my new sound card still doesnt recognize it but now the sound is ABIT higher.
still need fixing this xD.
im not gona use Expression Encoder V3 because it can only encode 10 minutes if i didnt buy it.
are you sure there is no sulotion for this?
Thanks in Advance.


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(CBS News) In the key battleground state of Ohio, President Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney made competing remarks just minutes apart on the number issue of the campaign: The economy.
Mr. Obama, speaking in the Democratic stronghold of Cleveland, and Romney, speaking in heavily Republican Cincinnati, outlined their visions of the economy but also attempted to define their opponent as being harmful to the recovery.
At Cuyahoga Community College, the president said, "If they win the election, the agenda will be simple and straight forward." He said Romney and a Republican Congress would reduce the government "to a few basic functions," cut regulations and cut taxes, which he said would be harmful to the national deficit.
The president said Romney wants to take "us back" to economic polices of President George W. Bush's administration.
"We were told that huge tax cuts, especially for the wealthiest Americans, would lead to faster job growth, we were told that fewer regulations, especially for big financial institutions and corporations, would bring about widespread prosperity. We were told that it was ok to put two wars on the nation's credit card, that tax cuts would create enough growth to pay for themselves. That's what were told."
"So how did this economic theory work out?" the president asked the crowd. "Mr. Romney is qualified to deliver on that plan."
"The debate in this election is about how we grow faster, and how we create more jobs, and how we pay down our debt," the president said.
Romney, meanwhile, noted the president's "eloquence," but said "talk is cheap."
"Action speaks very loud. And if you want to see the results of his economic policies, look around Ohio, look around the country, you'll see a lot of people are hurting," Romney said.
"So as you look at the president's record it is long on words and short on action that created jobs," Romney said.
Romney once again used the president's statement he made last week that the economy is "doing fine."
"If you think the President's right when he said the private sector is doing fine. well then he's the guy to vote for. But when he said that there was such an outpouring of response from the 23 million Americans out of work or underemployed that I think today he's not going to say it again," Romney said.
For his plan, Romney said he would increase trade, call out China for manipulating its currency and increase domestic oil, coal and gas production.
"I can guarantee you if I'm president on day one, we're going to get the approval for that pipeline from Canada, and if I have to build it myself to get it here, I'll get that oil into America," Romney said.
Romney recounted a discussion he had with Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who is also mentioned as a possible vice-presidential candidate.
"He said you know what I never heard my parents say why won't those people give me some of what they have. I never heard my parents say why won't the government give us some of what they had. Instead isn't it great to live in a country where hard work and education and risk taking you can achieve that yourself," Romney said.
Meanwhile, Mr. Obama touted what he called his "different vision for America," saying he would invest in education, research and development and renewable energy.
The president also reiterated his call to raise taxes on the "wealthiest Americans."
"If you really want to get the deficit under control, the tax code has to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more," he said, noting that Romney's plan includes cutting $5 trillion worth of taxes.
As both campaigns were so close to each other, the campaigns showed up at each other's events. Romney's bus, with the Romney campaign log, circled the site of the president's speech.
Both campaigns are likely to visit Ohio numerous times this campaign season, as it is a critical state to both campaign's election plans.


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Postal News - June 2005
Senate Committee Passes Postal Reform Bill-The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2005 out of committee by a 15-1 vote . The legislation was similar to the bill introduced March 17 by Sen. Susan Collins, R-ME, chairwoman of the committee, and committee member Sen. Thomas Carper, D-DE. It must now be considered by the Senate, but no date has been set. The House Government Reform Committee is expected to mark up its postal reform measure after the July 4 recess, according to postal insiders. Postal Measure Clears Senate Panel; Floor Action Uncertain - Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. argued the bill does not do enough to reduce healthcare costs for postal employees. Health benefits are negotiated through collective bargaining.|
- Mailers Laud Senate Bill OK, Unsure of Prospects
Press Release on Senate Committee approval of S.662
Senator Keeps Focus on Financial Management at Postal Service (pdf)-"Senator Chuck Grassley is keeping pressure on the Postal Service by asking for reports on how the Service is improving financial management following recent news of a possible postal rate increase and excessive payments by the Service when its employees relocate. Grassley said he wants to shine the spotlight on the Postal Service to make sure any increase in the cost of stamps is not wasted by poor management." |
APWU, USPS Announce Tentative Agreement On 1-Year Contract Extension - APWU President William Burrus announced June 28 that the union and the USPS have reached a tentative agreement on a one-year contract extension which is due to expire Nov. 20. The extension agreement provides for a 1.6 percent across-the-board wage increase, to take effect March 18, 2006, and two cost-of-living adjustments. It also calls for upgrades of 14 duty assignments in the clerk, maintenance, and motor vehicle crafts. The agreement extends no-layoff protection and leaves the employee share of contributions to health benefit costs unchanged. |
- Burrus: Tentative Contract Extension Is Part of Long-Term Effort
- APWU Executive Board Endorses Tentative Contract Extension
-Tentative Agreement to Extend Collective Bargaining Agreement (pdf)
The Postman Cometh, UPS and FedEx-"Fool me once with DHL. Don't fool me twice with the USPS. Last holiday season, I, along with a lot of other enthusiasts for UPS and FedEx , missed the incredibly aggressive attempt by DHL to take share from the two warhorses. This morning's fantastic piece of research from Morgan Stanley about the newfound prowess, including pricing prowess, of the U.S. Postal Service worries me just like the DHL threat should have worried me. I believe that we have to watch these stocks very carefully because of USPS. How bad is the threat? If I were Fred Smith, who owns some of the Republican Party I would call President Bush, FedEx him the report and say, "Come on, shut down the postal service, privatize it or at least make it uncompetitive." In the nutty world we are in, that could happen. But not fast enough to save the quarters of FedEx and UPS. " (source: Commentary by James Cramer via theStreet) |
USPS Net Income $1.4 Billion Over Budget
- USPS Financial & Operating Statements May 2005 (PDF)
Burrus: Effort to Drop Proposal for Labor Seat on Postal Board Could Fracture Coalition- APWU expects that the final bill reforming the Postal Service will include a provision for a labor representative on the Board of Governors and we expect it to be included, as well as other provisions for which we have fought so hard. Removing the provision at this late date would be a breach of the trust built up over months of painstaking negotiations. |
House Chairman Plans to Leave Labor Provision in Postal Bill
- NALC Bulletin: 'Crunch time on postal reform is nearly here.'
Conservatives still waiting for response to concerns on postal overhaul-Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, are still waiting for a response from House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, on a letter they sent three weeks ago that lambasted postal overhaul legislation sponsored by House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., for worsening the deficit.
House Chairman plans to Leave Labor Provision in Postal Bill-
"House Government Reform Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., is planning to leave in a provision allowing labor unions to appoint a representative to the Postal Service's Board of Governors as part of sweeping postal overhaul legislation, despite criticism from some Republicans and conservative groups. GOP opposition could delay a floor vote on the measure, especially since the White House also opposes some provisions. Instead of changing the bill, which is backed by a broad but fragile coalition of stakeholders -- including labor unions -- Davis plans to continue talking to conservative House members to garner support before the measure goes to floor, likely later this month or next. Citizen Outreach, a conservative advocacy group, sent a letter to the Republican Study Committee criticizing the labor language, which gives unions veto power over one of nine governors' seats on the panel overseeing the Postal Service." |
- NALC Bulletin: 'Crunch time on postal reform is nearly here.'
Donahoe takes oath as Deputy PMG/COO-Pat Donahoe, the Postal Services 19th Deputy Postmaster General and Chief Operating Officer (COO), took the oath of office today, thanking employees throughout the country and pledging to continue leading USPS transformation efforts.|
PMG Visits Michigan Mail Processing Facilities-Postmaster General Jack Potter took time to visit three Michigan mail processing facilities last week Troy Automation Facility, and Royal Oak and Detroit Processing and Distribution Centers. Potter thanked employees for their hard work and customer service. In Detroit, the PMG also held a town hall meeting with employees and made recommendation to improve plant efficiency by removing old hardware and out-of-date sack sorters. |
Americans for Tax Reform says a vote for H.R. 22 Guarantees Labor Unions Seat on Postal Board (PDF) -and as a vote against taxpayers. In a recent letter to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) President Grover Norquist wrote" ATR has been a staunch advocate of comprehensive postal reform, and strongly opposes H.R. 22, as it falls far short of true reform. Further, H.R. 22 guarantees a seat on the Postal Board of Governors for organized labor. The USPS is intended to be an independent agency free from the influence of outside interest groups. To guarantee labor unions a seat on the postal governing board would give Big Labor undue influence over the USPS, undoubtedly frustrating essential reforms including cutting the USPS' massive workforce and closing underperforming facilities."|
NAPUS: In Opposing H.R. 22, Anti-Tax Activist Supports Hidden Tax
APWU Rank and File Bargaining Advisory Committee Holds Initial Meeting-APWUs Rank and File Bargaining Advisory Committee must approve any tentative extension agreement before it can be sent to members for a ratification vote. Initially, the union and management discussed creating positions that would be reserved for retirees, who would continue to draw their annuities. But union and management representatives were notified by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that such an arrangement could not be approved. |
APWU, USPS Considering Contract Extension-"APWU President William Burrus announced June 20 that the union and management have reached "an agreement on a framework" for a one-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, with specific details still under discussion. It will include a raise, along with two cost-of-living adjustments, and upgrades of some positions in the clerk, maintenance, and motor vehicle crafts. In addition to a contract extension, the parties are also exploring an entirely new concept: the creation of Retail Sales Assistants who would work in grocery stores, malls, and other venues that are easily accessible to the public, the union president said. These positions would be reserved for retired postal employees, who would continue to draw their retirement annuities." |
Another Postmaster Reassigned-USPS says Madera (Calif.) Postmaster Paul Deleon is reassigned because of "personal problems". But the word from insiders is that this is the result of intense scrutiny from postal inspectors after a CBS 47 TV report. The Postmaster who some workers claim harassed them and forced them to deliver the mail late, is suddenly gone. |
USPS Releases May 2005 Financial Statement
Former Postal Manager Admits Stealing $163,000-"David Summers, a former Kansas City, Kansas, post office manager, has admitted stealing nearly $163,000 from his employer, U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren said Tuesday. Summers was a customer service manager at the Civic Center Station in Kansas City, Kansas. The embezzlement was concealed by manipulation of the postal service's accounting system. He faces a maximum of five years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine and restitution, Melgren said." |
House Bill Includes No USPS Emergency Preparedness Funds-USPS received no emergency preparedness funding in the $66.9 billion fiscal year 2006 Transportation, Treasury, Housing, and Urban Development bill that the House Appropriations Committee passed Tuesday. Potter said the USPS currently spends about $800,000 of its own funds monthly to irradiate mail destined for Congress, the White House and federal government agencies in Washington.|
USPS OIG Semi-Annual Report to Congress 2005-The report covers: Enhance Customer Service Operations, Improve Delivery Operations, Letter Carrier Compensation Models, Workers Compensation Costs, Enhance Workplace Environment and much more. |
-USPS Orders hybrid electric vehicles -Azure will follow on this delivery with a prototype diesel parallel hybrid drive for a two-ton step van that will also be used by USPS for in-service demonstration and monitoring. The scope of the program is to determine the relative economics of both the series and parallel hybrid powertrains compared to current fleet vehicles and to establish cost-benefit parameters. Azure expects to deliver the parallel hybrid delivery vehicle to USPS in October of 2005. USPS operates approximately 10,000 two-ton step vans. USPS already operates 30 all-electric Azure Citivans in the state of New York. 22 Azure Citivans have been servicing Manhattan dating back to 1998 while eight more were added to the fleet in 2004 to service the Bronx. Two additional vehicles will start servicing Queens in June 2005.
Dismount order reversed-Gilroy - Postmaster Penny Yates has ordered her letter carriers to get out of their vehicles and deliver mail to curbside boxes that are temporarily blocked by parked cars or trash receptacles. I said guys, we made the newspaper, she said of her conversation with her staff. You should be making safe dismount deliveries. As long as we can walk up to the box, they should follow safety procedures and ensure delivery. Yates called a May 28 Dispatch story highlighting the difficulties some Gilroy residents have receiving their mail a negative attack. But after the story ran, the postmaster asked to view unpublished pictures of carrier Patricia Finley, who was photographed by the Dispatch while she used her truck to push trash bins out her way so she wouldnt have to dismount. Postal workers invoke response |
- Victim of 'do not dismount' policy speaks out
Do Dismount - and Deliver the Mail-"Residents in some Gilroy neighborhoods are understandably upset with Gilroy Postmaster Penny Yates, who has told her carriers not to leave their vehicles to deliver mail to curbside mailboxes that are blocked by a parked car. Why is Yates do not dismount order a bad idea? Let us count the ways." |
- Postal Service Attitude Adjustment
No discipline for Gilroy postal worker -Patricia Finley, the Gilroy letter carrier photographed using her mail truck to push trash receptacles out of the way of mailboxes will not be disciplined. Gilroy postmistress Penny Yates had previously said Finley was facing punishment potentially as severe as termination. Patricias off the hook, said union shop steward Debra Masten. We really do have a good relationship with management. Under union rules, the deadline to discipline Finley expired Monday, two weeks after Yates discussed the matter with her. Yates could not be reached for comment. |
Drive for Quick USPS Rate Settlement Questioned-By the postal service's own estimate, under its proposed rate increase, the markup on Standard Enhanced Carrier Route, or ECR, mail would be 144 percent, Valpak attorney William Olson said. It would have the highest markup of any class of mail. Olson said the rate case appears to violate the law. It marks up some mail classes too much while allowing other classes to avoid carrying their share of the burden, he said.|
Reports: USPS Denies Rate Case Withdrawal-The U.S. Postal Service is denying reports that it might be considering a withdrawal of the current rate case. ""I don't know what happened behind closed doors but as far as I know the rate case is going forward," said USPS spokesman Jerry McKiernan |
Postal Workers Cautiously Optimistic About Manager's Reassignment -
- No one's popping champagne corks and throwing confetti yet, but the announcement that Brenda Holmes was being re-assigned to the Gary Post Office was welcome news to the letter carriers and clerks in Michigan City (Indiana). Even though the re-assignment is billed as temporary by Postal Service bureaucrats, any respite from Holmes' dictatorial management style is cause for celebration. Things got so bad the Postal Service brought in an intervention team because of the astronomical number of grievances (anywhere from 250 to more than 400 in the less than four years since Holmes arrival) .Letter carriers were being pushed to the limit and if they complained about 12-hour or longer days, they were reprimanded. |
Georgia Letter Carrier Shot by Man on Delivery Route- Witnesses told police that the carrier was delivering mail when a resident of the neighborhood approached him and opened fire. The victim managed to get back into his truck and drive away but apparently stopped the truck and collapsed. A resident called emergency workers as the suspect fled from the scene and drove to the police department | -
Postman shot on job has second surgery
Postal Worker Accused of Attacking Co-Worker With Metal Pipe
Penn. Letter Carrier Facing Disciplinary Action for Petting Dog on Route (.jpg). Letter to the editor via Postal Reporter reader : "For some time now, my dog waits patiently every day for our letter carrier, whom he is fond of, to arrive. Now I find the carrier is facing disciplinary action for petting my dog. With 25 years of loyal dependable service, he was placed on administrative leave with still more charges pending. " |
Postal Workers Allowed to Wear Z-coil Shoes in Some Districts- After USPS banned Z-Coil footwear in the workplace last year , some postal workers were unhappy. Fortunately postal workers in some districts are now allowed to wear Z-Coil shoes with a doctor's prescription and a few other restrictions.|
Azeezaly Jaffer: Don't Believe the Mythmaker-"I recently came across the commentary that appeared in the May 8 Press-Republican, headlined "Dispelling the Myths of the USPS." It was written by a Sam Ryan but the name Paul Harvey kept coming to mind, since I thought a more appropriate heading might have been "The Rest of the Story." I've seen some articles Mr. Ryan has written before and his pattern is always the same: a half truth, a conclusion, and then move on. So I would caution, don't believe Ryan the mythmaker; he misleads" . |
Deadline Up for Postal Workers to Pay Off City Payroll Tax - (Paducah, Kentucky) 200 Postal Workers face prosecution over non-payment- Tuesday was the last day that Paducah postal workers could pay off payroll taxes they owed dating back to 2000 . Because Paducah has less than 500 Federal employees-- Federal agencies are exempted by law from withholding Paducah payroll taxes. According to one clerk," the local newspaper and TV reports made us all look like a bunch of "crooks & cheat's"! They are expecting us (Postal employee's) pay upon short notice." The local APWU has hired an attorney and may work out some agreement with the city. (6/4)|
- Postmaster Mark Hulme: "no one's exempt from paying taxes"
Attorney (and Former 17-Year APWU Officer) Comments on Boots v. USPS-The right of all disabled federal employees to an individualized assessment instead of blanket exclusion based on the type of their disability has been preserved...at least until the Supreme Court addresses the issue under the ADA. |
Waltham post office to try new hybrid vehicle-Post offices in New York currently operate 30 all-electric vehicles is made by Azure Dynamics, but Waltham's new addition is the first of its kind for USPS. The 14,000-pound truck runs on a combination of diesel fuel and electricity and is expected to use 50 percent less fuel than the 11,000-pound truck it replaces. Azure delivered the truck to the USPS earlier this month, and Waltham received it yesterday. It will be kept at the Smith Street Annex station and used to retrieve mail from colleges and large businesses. |
EBay crowd goes postal over PMG guest appearance-How do we love thee, post office . . .Five bucks says you can't name the postmaster general of the U.S. Postal Service. But for a few brief moments last week, John E. Potter was like a rock star in San Jose. Potter appeared on stage before a packed HP Pavilion during eBay Live, the San Jose company's annual gathering of eBay members and employees. EBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman invited Potter onstage to discuss new shipping services available to eBay sellers. To most people, mailing a package is about as interesting as running a load of laundry. To eBay sellers, mailing is their life. And anything anyone can do to make the chore easier is greeted with wild enthusiasm. So when Potter took the stage, the crowd gave him a hearty ovation. And when Whitman asked the crowd after his talk, ``How much do we love the Postal Service?'' eBayers let it rip. |
-EEOC: Employee Can File Complaint Over Removal From Overtime Work, Desired List Employee alleged discrimination when he was passed over for overtime assignments and ultimately removed from the Overtime Desired List. USPS dismissed the complaint, finding that it did not state an actionable claim. The EEOC found that assignment of overtime work was clearly a "term, condition or privilege" of the employees employment. Therefore, the EEOC concluded that USPS' failure to select him from the ODL to perform overtime work, or removing him from that list, rendered the employee aggrieved and remanded the case for further processing. Parker v. Potter |
Rural Carriers Maintain Tradition Dating to Pony Express- "The term `rural carriers' has in many areas become something of a misnomer," said Joseph Breckenridge, spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service in central and north Florida. Nationally, there are about 334,000 letter carriers. While their numbers are generally expected to decline in the next few years because of competition from alternative delivery systems and new forms of electronic communication, the demand for rural carriers is expected to increase. |
- Rural Carriers Numbers increase in latest Employee Statistics Report (pdf)
Motor Vehicle Service Driver Wins Reinstatement-In Robert Boots was removed from his position in the USPS as a Tractor-Trailer Operator for taking an anti-seizure medication that was disclosed when he was hired in 1998. A Special Panel said DOT regulations adopted voluntarily by the USPS do not override EEO rules with regard to disability discrimination. The Special Panel directed the MSPB to order the appellants restoration to duty and the back pay and benefits that go with it. This case illustrates how worker unfriendly the MSPB has become and how long cases can drag out. |
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Federal authorities charge four former postal workers-"Four former postal service employees were charged Friday with thefts from the mail and Postal Service coffers in the New Orleans area, including one implicated in an alleged scheme involving the theft and cashing of $34,000 in U.S. Treasury checks." PRESS RELEASE
House to Vote on Postal Overhaul Bill-House leaders plan to move a long-awaited postal overhaul measure to the floor this month or early July despite objections from the administration and mounting opposition from conservatives concerned about its budgetary impact. A GOP aide said some conservatives share the administration's view on the military pensions and have lambasted the measure for not doing enough to cut down on labor costs.|
Judge rejects guilty plea attempt by former Estero postmaster-Estero's former postmaster tried to plead guilty Tuesday to embezzling a portion of the more than $250,000 federal prosecutors contend she pocketed from selling stamps to Publix Supermarkets. But U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas N. Frazier told Ida Lamb Rasnake that she has to admit to taking every penny of the $254,940 charged in her indictment, not the $90,160 her lawyer says she will admit to taking. Otherwise, Frazier said, he can't accept her plea. |
UPS Loses Personal Data for 3.9 Million Customers -Citigroup Inc, the world's largest bank, on Monday said account and payment history data on 3.9 million of its customers were lost in transit by United Parcel Service Inc. . Citigroup said the data were stored on computer tapes, and lost while UPS was shipping them to an Experian credit bureau in Texas. The tapes, which also contained Social Security numbers, covered CitiFinancial Branch Network customers and about 50,000 customers with closed accounts from CitiFinancial Retail Services. |
Garage Owner Admits Bilking USPS, Giving Favors to Postal Supervisors-The owner of the Clinton Garage in Newton, NJ admitted in federal court Wednesday that he bilked $184,356.57 from USPS through an over-billing scheme with the help of an unnamed "postal supervisory employee." Mark DiBattista admitted that he had access to the Postal Service's credit card system through which he charged the misappropriated money. DiBattista also admitted to providing benefits in the form of cash, free repair services and used cars to supervisory Postal employees and to members of their families. |
Final Rule: Premium Forwarding Service Experiment Effective August 7 - The U.S. Postal Service has published a final rule, effective August 7, 2005, that sets forth the standards adopted by the Postal Service to implement the Premium Forwarding Service (PFS) experiment. The Postal Service is conducting the PFS experiment to measure interest in a new service that forwards mail to residential customers who are temporarily away from their primary address. With PFS, your local Post Office will ship mail to your temporary address once a week via Priority Mail. Customers can submit a temporary forwarding request for their First-Class Mail and Periodicals mail. Customers also can have their mail held at the Post Office for short periods of time. Premium Forwarding Service (PFS) is a two-year, nationwide experiment that reships all of a customer's mail on a weekly basis.
Post Office Gets $75M in World Trade Center Suit-A property insurer has agreed to pay the U.S. Postal Service $75 million for damage to the historic Church St. post office incurred on 9/11, Manhattan U.S. Attorney David Kelley announced yesterday. The agreement settles a lawsuit the Postal Service brought against Factory Mutual Insurance Co. in Manhattan Federal Court, said Kelley. The Church St. station, at 90 Church St., suffered extensive damage in the terror attacks. The post office, which is on the National Registry of Historic Places, reopened last year.
-Bethesda, Maryland' s first Black female postmaster sworn in-A native Washingtonian, Deitrice Willard-Ruffin, called "DeeDee" by those who know her, became the first female African-American postmaster for the city of Bethesda, Md. There are 24,767 postmasters across the country, a USPS spokesman said. Approximately 1,064 are African-American and over half of those, 621, are women, comprising a little over 4 percent of the USPS' 14,516 women postmasters. Willard-Ruffin has been a USPS employee since 1986, starting as a letter carrier in Arlington, Va., and quickly moving up the postal hierarchy from a supervisor and manager of customer services in Arlington to the position of manager of customer services for the Bethesda post office in 2000
Animal Welfare agency to look into bird removal complaints at post office-An animal welfare agency is looking into complaints that a company hired by the Brick post office to remove birds may have violated animal cruelty statutes, officials said .The incident began after the post office hired Ecolab, a commercial cleaning and pest removal company with offices in Sayreville, to remove bird nests that were located under eaves in the back of the building, said George Flood, a spokesman for the postal service in New Jersey. He said the post office received complaints about bird droppings by employees.
More than a letter carrier-Employees,
residents often bond at mailbox
Close encounters of the fluttering kind: a rise in bird attacks-Mail carrier attacked by six mockingbirds - Postal carrier Keith Cooper is used to dogs sneering from behind metal gates. He's used to uncivil people who expect to find something in their mailbox and then don't. But this week he ran into a new problem: rambunctious birds. "I was ducking this way, then ducking that way, trying to get away," Mr. Cooper says, recalling a few frenzied seconds where beaks flashed like tiny daggers. "I had no idea what was going on. |
Mail Delivery Halted at Home of 6 pound Scratching Cat-The postal service said it won't resume delivery until owner restrains the cat named Denver indoors .A spokesman for the postal service said it has a right to discontinue delivery if delivery men and women feel threatened. The postal service said the cat has scratched at least one of the carriers several times.
Postal Reform Votes Likely Within Weeks-"Expectations are high that the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs will vote to recommend the Senate's postal reform bill this month, before the July 4 recess, said Bob McLean, executive director of the Mailers Council. Also, the House of Representatives bill, which has passed out of its committee, could get a vote from the full House this month or in July. |
E-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter: Collins Sets Date for S. 662 (pdf)
Question From Postal Reporter Reader : "We are currently scheduled for a BDS (Biohazard Detection System) drill in July. There is a rumor that we will be required to go through decontamination (strip and shower) for this drill. That in fact this has already happened at other offices. Is there any truth to this? Haven't been able to get any information about these "drills" anywhere else. Thanks, clerk. |
The Offer's in the Mail-To
reach consumers, marketers turn to old standby-Companies
faced with government crackdowns on e-mail spam and telemarketing calls are
turning to a tried-and-true method to reach consumers: the mailbox. Direct mail,
or so-called junk mail, is on the rise. With hundreds of television channels
and dwindling newspaper circulations, marketers say snail mail is one of the
last frontiers where they know they can find consumers in an increasingly fragmented
media market. But one of the biggest beneficiaries may be the US Postal Service,
which generated upwards of $60 billion in revenue from direct mail over the
past four years "
After 111 Years, Postage Stamps Go Private-
The U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) printed its last postage stamps on June 10th that ended 111 years of stamp production. Now, private printers will produce all the nation's stamps, a decision that U.S. Postal Service officials say will save tens of millions of dollars a year. Finances and what BEP Director Thomas A. Ferguson said was a decision to no longer treat stamps like currency led postal officials away from the hand-engraved stamps that were the bureau's hallmark and toward cheaper, lithographed stamps. In the end, the bureau, with its elaborate security system, unionized printers and large government payroll, declared it could not compete with private printers. |
USPS Financial Situation Better Than Original Estimates
According to Postcom.org: "Insider gossip aside, the Postal Service's financial situation is better than its original estimates when it filed the rate case in early April and much better than when it filed its operating budget last year. Postal Service Witness Maura Robinson has filed an errata to her R2005-1 testimony to indicate that the Postal Service now projects its after-rates net income in the test year (2006) to be $281 million, up from the original projection of $112 million." |
Senate Committee Cuts Funding For USPS Cost to Compact Countries-The US Senate Appropriations Committee concurred with the House report to continue $1,000,000 funding of a health program for the populations of Marshall Islands atolls where Cold War nuclear testing occurred. Also clearing the Committee last Thursday was $800,000 for distribution to Prior Service Trust Fund enrollees of the region. In departmental budgeting for the Compact, however, the Committee recommended $500,000 less than the House allowance, which is $588,000 less than FY2005. The decrease includes a cut in Federal Services Assistance which provides funding for U.S. Postal service to reimburse cost of postal service to Compact countries
Postal Service's Web Site Voted Best Among Government Agencies - The WiredSafety Group, an independent organization, has cited the United States Postal Service as having the most consumer-friendly website of those agencies considered for The Best of the Web-Government Award. WiredKids.com, a part of the WiredSafety Group, also gave the Postal Inspection Service the Wired Cops Award for its efforts in the successful recovery of a kidnapped child.
The Burrus Book' available online "The Burrus Book a collection of documents spanning more than two decades that includes national grievance settlements, memos of understanding, and court decisions addressing matters of contract interpretation is now available online."
APWU Rank and File Bargaining Advisory Committee Holds Initial Meeting-APWUs Rank and File Bargaining Advisory Committee must approve any tentative extension agreement before it can be sent to members for a ratification vote. Initially, the union and management discussed creating positions that would be reserved for retirees, who would continue to draw their annuities. But union and management representatives were notified by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that such an arrangement could not be approved. |
N.J. Postal Workers Intercept Anthrax Hoax Letters-- Postal workers in Asbury Park have intercepted several letters that contained the word "anthrax" on a single sheet of paper inside. The FBI in Newark said the letters were mailed to schools, government agencies and private businesses. None of the letters tested positive for the biological agent. The FBI isn't saying to whom the letters were addressed for fear of causing a copycat situation.
|Slave Mural in Texas Post Office Lobby Draw Complaints-The slave mural painted in the 1939 by Victor Arnautoff, a renowned artist hangs in the Linden, Texas post office lobby showing barefoot black field workers stooping to pick cotton and dragging long white sacks behind them. Last year the mural brought complaints after four white men were arrested for beating a mentally disabled black man and leaving him unconscious in a ditch outside Linden. Despite periodic protests from African American customers, Dallan Wordekemper, federal preservation officer for USPS sent word to the Linden postal officials that the mural was going nowhere. "I'm sorry. I'm not going to move the mural. It's part of history."|
Mail Carried Once Again by US Airways and American Airlines-The Postal Service suspended the mail-carrying contracts with both airlines in February. US Airways started carrying mail again in April, said David Castelveter, airline spokesman. The mail runs resumed about the same time for American, said Jim Quirk, a spokesman with the Postal Service. The contracts had been suspended because first-class mail the two airlines carried had been consistently late for about five months. |
Former Postal Technician sentenced in password cracking case - A former electrical technician with the Postal Service in Sioux Falls won't go to jail for tampering with a computer. But Arlin Vande Kamp will be on probation for a year, pay a $500 fine and pay back more than $3,900.He was sentenced in federal court after earlier pleading guilty to unauthorized access of a government computer. The U.S. Attorney's office says Vande Kamp used a restricted computer at the Sioux Falls distribution center in July 2003 to try to load password-cracking software onto the system. Administrators detected it and kept him from getting full access. |
Court Upholds MSPB Decision to Remove Letter Carrier for Working Second Job While on Paid Sick Leave -USPS removed the Letter Carrier from his position based on a charge of improper conduct. MSPB sustained the charge and affirmed the penalty of removal. An Appeals Court found that the employee should have been aware of the impropriety of working a second job while on paid sick leave. On appeal, the employee claimed that he lacked knowledge of the relevant ELM leave regulations. The Postal Service responded by arguing that the carrier should have known the pertinent regulations based on his nine years of service and the fact that he served as a union representative. |
Letter Carrier Acquitted of Kicking Dog-"A Shreveport mail carrier has been acquitted of animal cruelty and assault charges involving a dog on his route. Tom Lewis was accused of kicking and pepper spraying a barking dog in front of its home on Topeka Street in Highland last fall. Lewis was also accused of threatening to spray neighborhood boys who said the mailman was the aggressor. But Lewis claimed the dog bit him first. Caddo District Judge John Mosely agreed that Lewis acted within reason and found him not guilty." |
House Reps. Pence-Hensarling-Flake Stamp Tax (pdf)- E-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter: "This week, three House Republicans Reps. Mike Pence (R-IN), Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) voiced opposition to H.R. 22, the Postal Enhancement and Accountability Act, in a memo to conservative colleagues. (In May, Pence wrote Speaker Hastert opposing the bill.) In effect, the trio favors a 5.4% stamp tax that would unfairly burden 140 million American households and businesses, including every one of their constituents. The 3 Congressmen belong to the 89-member Republican Study Committee (RSC), a group organized to further a conservative social and economic legislative agenda." The Stamp Tax Trio starts from a suspect position, disingenuously alleging that the 2003 correction of the CSRS postal overpayment cost taxpayers $7.1 billion. (Ironically, on April 8, 2003, the Trio voted in favor of correcting the error). |
What Every Conservative Needs to Know About Postal Reform (pdf) -The number one problem facing the United States Postal Service (USPS) is a complete inability to control costs. Labor costs consume 80% of USPS' revenue whereas UPS and FedEx spend only 56% and 42% of their revenues on labor. USPS is currently providing its workers roughly $870 million more in benefits than federal workers receive as a result of lucrative health and life insurance benefits. And a postal worker in Anchorage, Alaska receives the same salary as his counterpart in New York City despite different cost-of-living. |
Meningitis delivery costs US Postal Service-An Aptos family has settled a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service that claimed the agency bungled a shipment of meningitis that was sent to a research laboratory in Berkeley but ended up in a shipment of their daughters clothing. Although Serena Lewis and her family did not contract the disease, they were required to endure a regimen of powerful antibiotics that left them violently ill, according to their lawsuit, filed last September in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Jewelers Mutual Partners With USPS for Safest Shipping -Experienced jewelry industry shippers have always said the safest way to send valuable packages is through the U.S. Postal Service. In fact, says Jewelers Mutual Insurance Co.'s president and COO Darin Kath: "since 2001, when we started offering USPS coverages on policies, the claims reported for shipments support the fact that [the USPS] is the safest and most secure way to ship jewelry." As a result, Jewelers Mutual announced on June 5 that its policyholders now receive automatic limits of $50,000 for Registered Mail and $25,000 for Express Mail to ship packages through USPS. There's also no premium and no deductible, says the insurer
Engages Servigistics To Transform Service Parts Operations
APWU Confirms USPS Contract Extension Offer-According to Randy Zelznick at 21cpw.com: "National APWU Director of Industrial Relations, Greg Bell, swore in the newly elected Philadelphia Area Local Officers tonight at our union meeting. Greg confirmed that the USPS did contact the APWU about a contract extension. Greg said the USPS was interested in a one year contract extension so that all postal unions would be negotiating at the same time in 2006. He didn't give any other details about the USPS's offer." |
Azeezaly Jaffer: Don't Believe the Mythmaker-"I recently came across the commentary that appeared in the May 8 Press-Republican, headlined "Dispelling the Myths of the USPS." It was written by a Sam Ryan but the name Paul Harvey kept coming to mind, since I thought a more appropriate heading might have been "The Rest of the Story." I've seen some articles Mr. Ryan has written before and his pattern is always the same: a half truth, a conclusion, and then move on. So I would caution, don't believe Ryan the mythmaker; he misleads" . |
Mom wants to bend rules on food mailed to troops-When a woman tried to air-mail cabbage rolls to son in Iraq she was shot down by U.S. Postal Service regulations banning dry ice on flights overseas, for safety reasons. (The "ice" is frozen carbon dioxide, which can build up enough pressure to explode.)
Postal Worker Subdued After Four-Hour Standoff
Bill Takes Aim at Delivery of Tax-Free Cigarettes in Mail-Amid growing criticism of the Postal Service's role in shipping tax-free cigarettes bought illegally over the Internet, a bill was introduced on Wednesday in the House of Representatives that would ban delivery of cigarettes and other tobacco products through the mail. The legislation, which was sponsored by Representative John M. McHugh, a Republican who represents upstate New York and who serves as a chairman of the House's Special Panel on Postal Reform and Oversight, would declare cigarettes "nonmailable."
After a Shower of Anthrax, an Illness and a Mystery-During the anthrax mail attacks in 2001, Bill Paliscak, a gung-ho, hockey-playing postal investigator who had missed 3 days of work in 11 years, removed a filthy filter above a mail-sorting machine to preserve it as evidence. Anthrax-laden dust showered down on him.
Two Vista letter carriers to forge lifelong bond-Roman Sagan and Art Konold are coworkers who have a lot in common ---- both are letter carriers for the Vista Post Office, both are married with two children, both are likeable middle-aged guys with laid-back smiles. But Konold is healthy and Sagan is sick with a congenital disease that has destroyed his kidneys. For the past 18 months, he has undergone painful dialysis treatments three times a week while he waits for a life-saving transplant. To Konold, that just didn't seem right. On Wednesday, the wait will be over. Konold is donating a kidney to Sagan in a six-hour surgery at UCSD Medical Center.
Retired Mailman Reflects in New Book "Snail Mail Versus Email"-France Bozeman was a mailman in Albany for 33 years. He started in the 1940's when postal workers were paid about 75 cents an hour and a first-class stamp cost 3 cents. In his book called "Snail Mail versus Email", Bozeman shares decades of his adventures as a mailman and reflects on the differences between those days and today's technologies
USPS PERFORMANCE CLUSTER GETS NEW NAME- The Postal Services Royal Oak Performance Cluster has a new name Southeast Michigan Performance Cluster. The district covers southern Michigan, extending east into Michigans thumb. More than 7,700 employees at five mail processing facilities and 150-plus Post Offices, stations and branches in the Southeast Michigan Performance Cluster delivered 1.8 billion pieces of mail to about 1.3 million addresses last year.
Snag at Post Office Leaves Mail Piling Up -"Checks and bills sent to Southwest Florida winter residents are piling up in Fort Myers because of a snag at the post office. Forwarded mail is backlogged by about two weeks, postal officials said. An additional shift of 23 employees was sent from Tampa to Fort Myers on Tuesday and the delay should be cleared by the end of the week, said Gary Sawtelle, a spokesman for USPS in Tampa."|
Facing a European postal future-Postal unions looked into the future at their conference in Oslo - to a European postal regime where traditional operators have to face competitive all comers and where someone, somewhere has to pay for a universal postal service
Legionnaires' Disease Strikes Two Norfolk Postal Workers-(Virginia) Health officials are investigating after two workers at the main Norfolk postal facility recently contracted Legionnaires' Disease. The conditions of the two workers is not known. Infection comes when humans breathe the mist that comes from a water source like an air conditioning system, hot tub or shower that has been contaminated with the Legionella bacteria |
Postal worker recovering from Legionnaires' Disease
Appeals Court Upholds DOL's New Union Financial Disclosure Rule- A U.S. Appeals Court in a 3-0 decision on May 31 upheld a new set of regulations issued by the Department of Labor that required unions to spell out in greater detail how they spend their money. The court, in effect, rejected the claim by the AFL-CIO that Labor Secretary Elaine Chao had exceeded her authority in establishing the new rules. The court emphasized that the rules had been based on sound law and economics. When union members pay dues, the court said, they should get a clear idea of where all that money is going. However, in a separate 2-1 ruling, the D.C. Circuit Court also concluded that revised reporting requirements don't apply to trusts in which a union has an interest.
Stamp Theft May Lead to Security Changes at Postal Store-(Virginia) .."someone walked in and stole an unspecified amount of stamps from the (Roanke) postal store. The crime captured on a surveillance camera shows a male suspect walk in, pick up the stamps, walk over to the mailboxes and then a few moments later leave the post office. The postal service plans to make security changes at that downtown branch in response to this crime." |
Mailman Leaves Stamp on Route after 60 yrs. -He has been questioned in a suspected murder, quizzed about a plot against the government and bitten by dogs of all sizes. A letter carrier can rack up lots of experiences in 60 years on the job - even if they're all spent on the same route. East Rockaway postal worker John Cook hung up his mail sack for the last time yesterday, but not before walking enough miles to circle the globe six times during the last six decades. Cook, 77, started work out of the East Rockaway Post Office at 17, before briefly serving in the Navy during World War |
Postmaster Pay Consultations to Begin June 23 -between USPS Headquarters and NAPUS and the League of Postmasters. The current pay for performance program runs through Fiscal Year 2005, which concludes on September 30, 2005. "We are optimistic that the summer meetings between postal officials and the two Postmaster associations will provide a pay system that is fair and equitable to all parties." |
Pitney Bowes Helps Endow a Chair for Postal Economics Research--Pitney Bowes Inc. pledged $100,000 toward the endowment of a Chair in Postal Economics at Rutgers University's Center for Research on Regulated Industries (CRRI) at a dinner last night at the annual Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics at Astrid Park Plaza, Antwerp, Belgium. Mr. Jimenez presented a check for $100,000 on behalf of Pitney Bowes Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Michael J. Critelli. In an accompanying letter, Mr. Critelli said: "This pledge is to help you endow a Chair to conduct research in Postal Economics and continue to organize annual conferences in this field. All of us at Pitney Bowes have been very impressed with CRRI's accomplishments in the past years to help us better understand the economics of the mailing industry.
Canada Post balks at scaling 12-inch step-Canada Post may have put the wrong "foot" forward after it told a woman in Ottawa that her 30-cm or 12-inch front step was too high for its carrier to climb to deliver mail
Social Security Reform in Limbo -House Republican leaders are aiming to pass many bills this summer, but Social Security reform is not one of them. In an e-mail sent to GOP aides and lobbyists late last week, House Majority Whip Roy Blunts (R-Mo.) office outlined its list of priority legislation on the post-Memorial Day calendar. The list includes gun-manufacturer liability, postal reform and the Central America Free Trade Agreement. Social Security reform was notably absent from the detailed list of legislative items. Senator Grassley is pressing to pass legislation out of his committee, but conservatives have argued that a compromise measure will fall short of their intended goals. |
Postman Delivers Mail Driving Hearse-It's the perfect dead-letter vehicle. Every day since January, David Mata has used his off-white hearse to deliver mail to more than 600 homes in subdivisions along Atlas and Atherton roads. And people have noticed. One woman complained to the Postal Service that the vehicle might scare her grandchildren, but most of Mata's customers have gotten used to it. Mata, 38, has used a host of his own vehicles during his 11 years on the 30-mile route and said he opted for the roomy hearse out of necessity instead of morbid intent.|
Mexico Issues Offensive Stamps of Black Character
Mexican Issues Stamp Offensive to African Americans
Era ends for mail carrying family
Reidsville Residents Complain of Poor Mail Service
Santa Maria will soon gain new post office
Finding a magical way to deliver books
06/28/05Post offices in New York currently operate 30 all-electric vehicles is made by Azure Dynamics, but Waltham, Massachusetts's new addition is the first of its kind for USPS. |
NALC Bulletin: Postal Reform, COLA dips to $577 & more...
Buyers Still Willing to Pay More for Expedited Delivery Services
Database Marketing Goes to War
U.S. Firms Using More Mail, E-Mail Around Globe
Postal service reorganizes Arkadelphia routes
USPS Launches Small Business Marketing Council
Caught between pension plans, some retirees see less Social Security
- Social Security quirk slams some retirees
Thrift Savings Plan Evolves, Improves, Has More Changes Ahead
Fugitive captured at Bell post office
Town cracks down on biting dogs with mail carriers' help
Letter Carrier Honored as Hometown Hero
06/25/05 Bethesda, Maryland' s first Black female postmaster sworn in
E-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter: Postal Reform Bill (pdf)
Growth adds ZIP to Arizona community
Local Man Gets North Dakota Rural Letter Carrier Award
Postal Service crosses the road
National Postal Museum Acquires John Lennon's Stamp Album
Pilots set deadline for UPS to offer contract
06/24/05 Postal Service To Withdraw Request for 5.4 Percent Rate Hike? Not So Fast Mediation Board Calls Recess in UPS-Pilots Talks Peachtree Data Offers LACSLink Service
Suspicious package contains novelty gift, batteries included
Postmaster happy to be in Hingham
USPS Offers Premium Forwarding Service Details
Post office a place to meet
Mail found at postal worker's home
Postal Service could send Fort Smith mail through Tulsa
Postal Bulletin 6/23: Publication 71 Revision (FMLA) Update
FedEx Profit, Full-Year Forecast Fall Below Estimates
Some mail rerouted after fire at Asheville facility
Daugherty mans counter at Jonesville Post Office
New Carman Postmaster
Politicos Gone Postal
Hit-and-run driver chased down by off-duty Postal Inspector
USPS Financial & Operating Statements May 2005 (PDF) USPS Named First Federal Agency in OSHA VPP Safety Program
Doing What's Right for the USPS New Mexico post office evacuated after powder found
Anthrax scare turns up detergent in Rockford, IL
Try Personalization It Works
Who is Sam Ryan and whats he got against USPS?
How Accurate is the Anthrax Detection Process?
ID thief reveals how he stole millions
Digital Magazine Publishing: Gaining Traction?
Postal Worker arrested for public indecency No to second-class postal citizens Japan: 72% negative on postal privatization
06/20/05 Unlike St. Paul, Minneapolis not seeking Post Office move Mail carrier frees man's foot stuck under 750-pound backhoe Editorial: Role Models for USPS
Nut Tree Post Office Set to Close
Anthrax Scare at Israeli Embassy in Washington
UK: Inner-city areas on DHL blacklist
Japan PM's postal reform obsession haunts politics
06/18/05 Rural carrier goes around in circles all day
Who was the real BAREFOOT MAILMAN?|
06/17/05 Government and Postal Employees Owe Billions in Taxes
46 cats found dead at postal employee's burned home
City to consider bonds for expanding Wichita postal center
PMG Selects Postal Veterans as Key Officers House Panel Backs Tax Relief for Federal Retirees and Military
Mail carriers go the extra mile Jewelers Mutual Partners With USPS for Safest Shipping Postal workers will be busy as Harry Potter pre-orders pass 500,000 mark Meningitis delivery costs US Postal Service
Potter Tells Advertisers: Use the Mail, it Works
Time Exec Touts Digital Editions
Spunky mutt became post office mascot
Postal Service looks to Eagan
06/16/05 Mansfield, Ohio Bulk mail processing operations may be moved to Pittsburgh Postmaster sticks to family tradition
Governors Approve HSBC Negotiated Service Agreement Day to replace retiring Moden as Sr. V.P. Government Relations Send God a letter, but don't forget the stamp
06/15/05 Former Postal Technician sentenced in password cracking case|
More than 5600 people applied for 900 positions at Wichita REC Postal Governors Approve NSA for HSBC
Postal Service Celebrates Locks
Endica Increases Competition in U.S. Personalized Postage Market
Postal heroes honored for public service and heroism
Firstlogic Offers Updates on Street Name Changes
Post office may close after lease expires
Mail Carried Once Again by US Airways and American Airlines |
APWU, USPS Sign Memo on Grievance Reviews, Scheduling
L.A. man accused of mailing hate letters to Jews
'The Burrus Book' available online
New Jersey Postal Workers Intercept Anthrax Hoax Letters
The Punching Postman" Tony Thornton Delivers
Postal Service's Web Site Voted Best Among Government Agencies
Police Chase Ends In Crash With Postal Service Van
Gilroy postmaster: organization efficient and business friendly
Senate Committee Cuts Funding For USPS Cost to Compact Countries Our View: Return post office closure idea to sender Postal Carriers handle job with care Postal Clerk erred in discarding 5,300-piece mailing Christian Science Monitor Going Digital Only?
Group: USPS Circulates Customs Preparation Memo Point, Click, Ship Mom wants to bend rules on food mailed to troops-When a woman tried to air-mail cabbage rolls to son in Iraq she was shot down by U.S. Postal Service regulations banning dry ice on flights overseas, for safety reasons. (The "ice" is frozen carbon dioxide, which can build up enough pressure to explode.)
USPS Engages Servigistics To Transform Service Parts Operations
USPS carriers seek help after dog attacks
Mailman gets prison for stealing
Postal Reform Votes Likely Within Weeks |
- E-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter: Collins Sets Date for S. 662 (pdf)
Final Rule: Premium Forwarding Service Experiment Effective August 7
Post Office Gets $75million in WTC Suit
Officials look at value of postal site in Oregon
Animal Welfare agency investigates bird removal complaints at PO
Order up: Mail with a side of beef
New York Mail Handler killed in fall between subway cars
McHugh Bill Would Ban Cigarettes by Mail |
Bill Takes Aim at Delivery of Tax-Free Cigarettes in Mail
Mikula steps in as Sand Creek Postmaster
Postal Bulletin 6/9/05: Check Acceptance Policy, Rural Route Evaluation Worksheet...more
Postal officials mull Snohomish anthrax plans
USPS to Move St. Paul Mail Facility to Eagan |
Letter carriers collect record 71.3 million pounds in food drive
Retired Mailman Reflects in New Book "Snail Mail Versus Email"
Board of Governors to Meet June 14, 2005 in Washington, D.C.
After a Shower of Anthrax, an Illness and a Mystery for Postal Inspector
Class action lawsuits launched against AuthentiDate following USPS warning
Postal Carrier Attacked by Pit Bull
Postal worker still recovering from pit bull attack one year later
Retired Postal Mail Handler dies after car goes off road
Mailboxes headed for cancellation in Bethlehem
USPS PERFORMANCE CLUSTER GETS NEW NAME- The Postal Services Royal Oak Performance Cluster has a new name Southeast Michigan Performance Cluster. The district covers southern Michigan, extending east into Michigans thumb. More than 7,700 employees at five mail processing facilities and 150-plus Post Offices, stations and branches in the Southeast Michigan Performance Cluster delivered 1.8 billion pieces of mail to about 1.3 million addresses last year.
Postal worker recovering from Legionnaires' Disease
Popular area postman to deliver cool guitar licks instead of mail
OPMs Blair: I Never Proposed the USPS Pay Military Retiree Costs
Invaluable works of Postal ART
Washington State switches to mail-in voting
Ex-postmaster admits to stealing |
Riders to deliver mail straight from horses mouth
Federal authorities charge four former postal workers
Post Office requests 125 mailboxes moved to the curb
City gets new postal station
Company Files Class Action Suit against AuthentiDate Holding Corp
Seattle Girl Dies After Being Struck By Postal Truck
New postmaster takes over in Rocky Mount
Postal Service demands city return boxes
SC Postal employee sentenced for discarding mail
News: John E. Murphy age 49 of Haverhill, Mass. died May 23 after suffering a heart attack while delivering mail. Murphy worked for USPS in the Georgetown office for 10 years.
The Billion Dollar TSP Question
Motorcyclist dies in crash with postal vehicle
New postmaster weathers storms, comes out singing
Retired Postal Worker wins $1.3M lottery on day of father's death
USPS aims to stamp out breast cancer
Officials cut ribbon at Post Office Destroyed by Hurricane Floyd
New postmaster plans to bring contract station back to town
USPS may drop AuthentiDate if revenue doesn't rise
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Get an overview of this hotelHotel in Ales with free parking
Popular property highlights
Situated in Ales, this hotel is within 3 mi (5 km) of Musee du Desert, Ales Cathedral, and Musee Bibliotheque Pierre-Andre Benoit. Mine Temoin is 2.7 mi (4.3 km) away.
Hotel Features
Along with free newspapers, this hotel has a garden and free self parking. WiFi in public areas is free.
Room Amenities
All 69 rooms offer free WiFi, premium bedding, and flat-screen TVs with digital channels. Other amenities available to guests include free weekday newspapers, desks, and free toiletries.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Premiere Classe Ales
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Premiere Classe Ales features a terrace, a garden, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. Onsite self parking is complimentary. A total renovation of this property was completed in May 2013.
- Number of floors - 2
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Total number of rooms - 69
- Garden
- Terrace
- Year Built 2000
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Free self parking
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free WiFi
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Bowling alley on site
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Premium bedding
- Free weekday newspaper
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
- Free toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Digital TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Private bathroom
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free WiFi
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Bowling alley on site
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 3 per pet, per night
- Up to 10 kg
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.4 per person, per night
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: EUR 5.00 for adults and EUR 2.50 for children (approximately)
- Pet fee: EUR 3 per pet, per night
Hotel Name
- Premiere Classe Ales
- Premiere Classe Hotel Ales
We should mention
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
National Rating
This property has received its official star rating from the French Tourism Development Agency, ATOUT France.