Letter going to the American Postal Workers Union and National Association of Letter Carriers:

re: Mickey D. Barnett,
Nominee to US Postal
Service Board of Directors

As you perhaps know, Mickey D. Barnett has been nominated by the President to serve on the Postal Service Board of Directors. There are some things the Letter Carriers may wish to know about Mr. Barnett concerning his fitness to serve in this position.

First, and perhaps of most important to the letter carriers is Mr. Barnett’s affiliation with the National Right to Work Committee. Barnett was its chief mover in its attempt to make New Mexico a Right-to-Work state. Mr. Barnett’s efforts in opposing organized labor makes his service on the Postal Service Board very suspect and not helpful to harmonious relations between the letter carriers and management.

Barnett is also the New Mexico lobbyist for the payday loan industry. In fact, while serving in the New Mexico Senate, Barnett introduced the legislation that led to New Mexico’s repeal of the interest rate caps on these lending institutions. Consumer groups rate New Mexico as one of the two worst states when it comes to regulating payday loans. Rates can reach 500 percent or more when calculated on an annual basis. Barnett has recently filed suit against New Mexico Attorney General, Patricia Madrid who is trying to administratively regulate the industry.

Given Mr. Barnett’s past record, and controversial deportment, I can’t believe he would or could be fair-minded with your initiatives, programs and ideas.

Sincerely,

Ron Godbey, Retired Member
New Mexico House of Representatives

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This month’s object of the month at the National Postal Museum is an album of dead letters that were brought back to life by the Post Office’s Dead Letter Office in the late 1800’s. The folks who worked at the Dead Letter Office obviously took pride in their work- according to the article at the museum’s web site:

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According to Postcom, PRC nominee Mark Acton performed “extremely well” at his confirmation hearing. It also notes that in his remarks, “Acton expressed a preference for the ‘hard’ inflation-based cap approved by the Senate rather than the language approved by the House.”

No, it isn’t an April Fools story:

A post office worker said mail in Hamilton is being taken to St. George’s to be sorted before returning to Hamilton to be delivered. The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, disputed Postmaster General George Outerbridge’s claims in this newspaper that the mail was not first being forwarded to the east end. 

Based on the map at Wikipedia, the distance between Hamilton and St George’s is about ten miles. Bermuda is also said to be “about one-third the size of Washington, DC”.

Postal worker blames delays on new system