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A Flatonia (Texas) man was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon following a shooting in the Shiner area on Sunday, March 5. In an interview on Monday, March 6, Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon said that the Lavaca County Sheriff’s Office received a call at about 12:55 a.m. According to Sheriff Harmon, it was in reference to a gunshot victim in the 3400 block of Highway 90A east of... (subscription required to get more from this source). From the Fayette County Record, the Postmaster is Michael Joseph McKim and he shot a man who according to "Sheriff Harmon"...

President Joe Biden announced plans Friday to nominate two new members to the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors, a potential first step in removing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.... Biden is replacing two of DeJoy’s backers on the board, chair Ron Bloom and John Barger. However, the president would likely have to make additional appointments as terms expire in order for the board to replace DeJoy, since the board is responsible for choosing the postmaster general. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at Friday’s news briefing that the administration is “deeply troubled” by reports of DeJoy’s “potential financial conflicts...

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy will testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Friday, a spokesman for the panel's chairman, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), confirmed to The Hill. The hearing, which is expected to take place virtually because the Senate is currently in the middle of a three-week recess, will be the first chance for lawmakers to publicly question DeJoy amid growing bipartisan concerns about changes at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and widespread mail delays ahead of the November election. According to the committee, the hearing will look at the "finances and operations of the United...

Protesters surrounded Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s Greensboro, North Carolina, home on Sunday, one day after the far-left Shutdown D.C. held a protest at his Washington, DC, residence. The protests follow Democrat claims last week that the Trump administration is trying to interfere with vote-by-mail efforts in the 2020 presidential election. “This is what democracy looks like,” protesters chanted as they flooded the neighborhood and disrupted the Wyndham Championship taking place at a nearby golf course. “We need to keep the pressure on,” protestor Jim Mencius said in a Greensboro News & Record report.

A top donor to President Trump and the Republican National Committee will be named the new head of the Postal Service, putting a top ally of the president in charge of an agency where Trump has long pressed for major changes in how it handles its business. The Postal Service’s Board of Governors confirmed late Wednesday that Louis DeJoy, a North Carolina businessman who is currently in charge of fundraising for the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, will serve as the new postmaster general. The action will install a stalwart Trump ally to lead the Postal Service, which he has...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The postmaster in Pittsburgh has been arrested on charges of opening mail packages allegedly looking for drugs and threatening employees if they told authorities about it. Officials say Dan Davis is accused of illegally opening express mail packages. According to the criminal complaint, Davis would run Google searches on the addresses on packages. If an address came back invalid, he would open the package. The criminal complaint reports that he claimed he was searching for drugs and money.

At a time when the U.S. Postal Service says it is experiencing a financial crisis, it purchased a $1.2 million home from an employee so he could relocate, a CNN investigation has found. The Postal Service bought this 8,400-square-foot South Carolina home so an employee could relocate. Postal Service spokesman Greg Frey said the home will be resold, as others have been. "It's not like we threw away a million dollars," Frey told CNN. "We are hoping it's going to go for the appraised value." But a real estate agent in the area said the home could be a tough...

Postmaster General John E. Potter recently warned that economic times are so dire that the U.S. Postal Service may end mail delivery one day a week and freeze executive salaries. But his personal fortunes are nonetheless rising thanks to 40 percent in pay raises since 2006, a $135,000 bonus last year and several perks usually reserved for corporate CEOs. The changes, approved by the Postal Board of Governors and contained in a little-noticed regulatory filing in December, brought Mr. Potter's total compensation and retirement benefits to more than $800,000 in 2008. That is more than double the salary for President...

Postmaster General John Potter says the massive deficits facing the post office could force the agency to cut out one day of mail delivery per week. Potter asked for an end to the requirement that the agency deliver mail six days a week. Faced with dwindling mail volume and rising costs, the post office was $2.8 billion in the red last year.

Netflix Hires Former U.S. Postmaster General as COO Netflix has hired former U.S. Postmaster General William J. Henderson as chief operations officer, effective January 23rd. Tom Dillon, who joined Netflix in 1999 and built the logistics and distribution systems at Netflix, will be retiring in April. If he could handle delivering 668 million pieces of mail per day to 130 million addresses with a budget of $68 billion, I think he can handle shipping a few movies (Netflix ships more than one million movies per day).

To:       Interested Parties From:    Bush-Cheney '04 Communications Date:     10/20/04 Re:       Letter To Postmaster General John              Potter On Ballot Mail IntegrityBush-Cheney '04 General Counsel Tom Josefiak today sent the following letter on ballot mail integrity to United States Postmaster General John Potter.Letter To Postmaster General John PotterMr. John Potter Postmaster General United States Postal Service 475 L’Enfant Plaza, SW Washington , DC 20260-0010 Dear Mr. Potter:Recently the Bush-Cheney campaign received anecdotal reports that mail carriers in Florida and elsewhere have suggested that they would consider failing to deliver ballot materials from homes that “appear Republican.”  This type of behavior is...