postal service. very much. great input already. i appreciate that. i will be serving as tonight's moderator for the town -- for the community meeting for anp process. a couple housekeeping issues if i made before we begin. in the unlikely event that we need to vacate this space, the emergency exit is to my left, to my right, in front, two doors in the back. mentzer mideastern are located at the far end of the hall. for those of you who currently have a cell phone or an electronic device, a kindly ask you turn it to me at. and for any hearing-impaired people here tonight, we have signed service is available, seats available reserved as well to my last. let me begin by thanking the american legion post 26 and specifically commanded deanne reid for allowing us to be here tonight to user space. commander, where are you, please? thank you, commander. [applause] i would like to introduce a number of folks with us tonight. i would say to first introduce senator that he is a test. [applause] senator sanders.

postal service. thank you very much. great input already. i appreciate that. i will be serving as tonight's moderator for the town -- for the community meeting for anp process. a couple housekeeping issues if i made before we begin. in the unlikely event that we need to vacate this space, the emergency exit is to my left, to my right, in front, two doors in the back. mentzer mideastern are located at the far end of the hall. for those of you who currently have a cell phone or an electronic device, a kindly ask you turn it to me at. and for any hearing-impaired people here tonight, we have signed service is available, seats available reserved as well to my last. let me begin by thanking the american legion post 26 and specifically commanded deanne reid for allowing us to be here tonight to user space. commander, where are you, please? thank you, commander. [applause] i would like to introduce a number of folks with us tonight. i would say to first introduce senator that he is a test. [applause] senato

postal union. [applause] >> wayne martin, local president of local 520 for the abwu. [applause] >> frank ruggerio, a northeast bank for the american postal union. [applause] >> representing the national association of postal supervisors in new england area vice president cy dumas. [applause] >> the vermont state president for the national association of postal supervisors ray fields. [applause] >> and randy sharon, the burlington national association of postal supervisors, branch president. [applause] >> from our mail handlers union, local 301, new england president of the mail handler's union, tim dwyer. [applause] >> and the branch president of the white river junction mail handlers, bill kramer. [applause] >> and i'd also like to recognize the number of current postal employees that are here in the audience tonight as well as i'd ask for a loud applause for our retired postal employees who are also here tonight. thank you for being here. [applause] >> we have two cameras located to my left in th

and may become a part-time employee of the postal service. just want to thank the program for helping to distribute posters around town and in many other areas of the city and community. my friend, sherman, many people have gone way beyond the call of duty. i just want to give them a round of applause. [applause] san francisco will always have a happy new year. i look forward to seeing everyone next year. [applause] >> thank you, claudine. that concludes our stamp ceremony. on behalf of the postal service, i want to thank the mayor for joining us and our platform guests for participating in a ceremony and for all of you for attending our lunar new year, year of the dragon commemoration. ♪ >> welcome to today's event. this is the 15th anniversary, celebrating the chinese lunar new year. the lunar new year is a 14-year cycle. this year is the year of the dragon. i would like to introduce and acknowledge some guests today. first off, mayor ed lee. [applause] police chief sur and the command staff of the police department. [applause] president of

postal service. i look forward to this every year to see the postal officials delivered the artistic beauty of these stamps. this is the fifth stamp set the we have enjoy. thank you for being here. i really enjoy the camaraderie of everybody on the stage. he represents a much of what we're proud of in the city reduced represent so much of what we're proud of in the city. -- you represent so much of what we're proud of in the city. it was in the earlier years when we started the tradition of designing the stamps. claudine, thank you very much. [applause] tommy ing, officials are here today as well from the u.s. postal service. thank you very much. to my good friend who will follow me. we were law school roommates at berkeley. he is also a dragon. we have two dragons in the house. he is now the federal judge for the ninth circuit. he is enjoying himself. i know that. he fought hard for that judge ship. we're so happy to see him there. you should have been there during our law school years having two dr

postal service.district manager, and a bass essler. delete plant manager for the northern new england district, michael breed. [applause] be acting plant manager for the white river junction, mary woodward, also known as woody. [applause] and from our postal unions, jonker ziskin a regional coordinator for the northeast region of the american postal leaders union. [applause] wayne martin, local president at local 520 for the av debut. [applause] frank rogerio on agents for the american postal workers union. [applause] representing the national association of postal supervisors in vice president, i do mouse. from vermont state president of the national association of postal supervisors, rayfield. [applause] and randy sharon, the burlington national association of postal supervisors. [applause] from our mail handlers union, local 301, new england president of the mail handlers union, tim dwyer. [cheers and applause] and the branch president of the white river junction, bill kramer. and i'd also like to

i absolutely ask the postal service to support the postal service protection act. the postmaster general should be leading the charge with senator sanders and senator leahy and congressman welch. we should be working together with them to preserve the post office, not dismantle it. thank you. [applause] >> not sure which ones we can do. my name is again to me malia and i'm a resident of white river junction for the past nine years. having a name like mine, you can imagine my letters get addressed wrong all the time. but i know my postal carrier branding. her name is janet. i know she's out there, hi. she's wonderful. my kids love her. you know, she's very personable and does the job well. i am not postal or military affiliated, but i have someone's little girl and i'm a follower of the golden rule. so i feel for those in mice that had men and women out of the country, some of them killed by a roadside bomb, what if a little girl nailed her letter under these new circumstances you have here in that letter made it too late for her daddy was killed? and he never got t

i absolutely ask the postal service to support the postal service protection act. the postmaster general should be leading the charge with senator sanders and senator leahy and congressman welch. we should be working together with them to preserve the post office, not dismantle it. thank you. [applause] >> not sure which ones we can do. my name is again to me malia and i'm a resident of white river junction for the past nine years. having a name like mine, you can imagine my letters get addressed wrong all the time. but i know my postal carrier branding. her name is janet. i know she's out there, hi. she's wonderful. my kids love her. you know, she's very personable and does the job well. i am not postal or military affiliated, but i have someone's little girl and i'm a follower of the golden rule. so i feel for those in mice that had men and women out of the country, some of them killed by a roadside bomb, what if a little girl nailed her letter under these new circumstances you have here in that letter made it too late for her daddy was killed? and he never got t

postal service. he was named vice president of sales in august of 2001. he oversees the sales and service organization focused on serving the needs of all commercial mailers and businesses. please welcome him to begin the dedication of the stamp. [applause] >> thank you. good morning. happy new year. i am pleased to be here joining you and thousands of people around the world in celebrating lunar new year. the u.s. postal service work force is one of the most diverse in america. that is by design. we serve the most diverse customers on the face of the era. nearly 40% of our employees are minorities. of those, nearly 9% are asian- american or pacific islanders. we are extremely proud of our inclusive environment that respects the uniqueness of every individual and encourages the contributions of people from different cultures, backgrounds, experiences. diversity is one of our biggest pluses as an employer. the postal service issued its first service of lunar new year stamps through 2004. in 2008, we introduced a new series of stamps commemorating lunar new

the postal service is contingent to the united states mail. not paying down the retirement, prepaying down for people that aren't even employed yet and keeping the postal service -- like here they're talking about closing down the service here. is there anything you can do to keep the postal service viable? because there's a lot of people that don't have internet and that can -- that depend on the postal service. >> my recommendation, which will probably not be received happily by the postal union is that they renegotiate the contracts from the ground up. you've got 9.5% unemployment. you have to ask yourself the question, what do you think you could hire the next postal worker for given a fair market? >> how about prepaying the retirement for people that aren't even hired yet? >> well, that's the sort of thing congress could waive and should be waived. but i'm also saying the underlying cost structure of the postal service has to be dealt with directly. it is too expensive a structure now. the lady way in the back wanted to say something the

postal service. last month, they ran into some problems.e announced it will need to make drastic changes to keep from laying people off. >> a local congressman has a plan to save it that does not include raising prices or cutting services. melanie alnwick has the story. >> the u.s. post office needs to cut $20 billion out of its budget. in december, david williams, vice president of postal operations, delivers the bad news. the fact of matter is our network is too big. we have more capacity in our network than we can afford. >> the post office is seek ago approval though close 261 processing centers, eliminate saturday delivery and next day delivery for first class mail and cut 28,000 jobs, most through retirement. >> we are being presented with false choices. virginia congressman jerry connelly believes first congress should roll back its mandate that requires usps to prepay 100% of its anticipated retirement costs. >> no other federal entity is required to prefund at 100%. the government acting office says that costs an extra $5 billion a

and may become a part-time employee of the postal service. just want to thank the program for helping to distribute posters around town and in many other areas of the city and community. my friend, sherman, many people have gone way beyond the call of duty. i just want to give them a round of applause. [applause] san francisco will always have a happy new year. i look forward to seeing everyone next year. [applause] >> thank you, claudine. that concludes our stamp ceremony. on behalf of the postal service, i want to thank the mayor for joining us and our platform guests for participating in a ceremony and for all of you for attending our lunar new year, year of the dragon commemoration. ♪ good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us at the under construction site. thank you to the developers and call their supporters and certainly the people that i had met last year, including dennis rogers. we're all here on that rainy day last year when we kick started this project with the developers and housing advocates. your story here also with sup

postal service.hael of north hollywood says he was flabbergasted to see surveillance video of a postal worker tossing the package over the fence there. it goes. he had set the camera during the recent wave of arson fires in the area. he says at bankrupt landing of course damaged his cuckoo clock and promptly called the postal service. >> when i told him i had it on video it changed -- they were here in 10 minutes. >> bet they were. the question, how could the postal worker get the package on the other side of the fence at a safe distance away so it wouldn't get stolen? the usps says carriers are instructed to return packages to the post office if they can't safely deliver them. this guy just threw it over the fence. the homeowner says he plans to find a repairman who specialized in those clocks and send the postal service the bill. >>> it's back. we have a little snow in the sierra finally. all you skiers out there have to be happy about this. this is the site people have been hoping see all season l

a postal carrier is caught on camera not handling a package a postal carrier is caught on camera not handling a package with care. captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, january 20, 2012. >>> good morning everybody. thanks for joining us on this friday. i'm betty nguyen. firefighters in reno, nevada are hoping the weather cooperates today as they try to get the upper hand on a brushfire that destroyed more than 20 homes. that fire forced thousands of people to evacuate their neighborhoods thursday evening. the fire started just after noon near a highway and was helped by dry conditions and wind gusts of more than 80 miles an hour. >> to say that we're in the thick of battle is an understatement. we have people to protect homes and neighborhoods. >> 250 firefighters were able to stop the fire from reaching the southern outskirts of reno. the fast-moving flames already burned six square miles. by thursday evening, more than 10,000 people were told to flee their homes. >> you know, miles from here and then 5:00, everything came over the hills. here we go. >>

one of the first stories and hear the postal service in fiscal year 2011 with $5.1 billion loss. this is set to be after the pre-funding requirements. it also goes on to say the total 2011 mail volume decline by the 20 billion pieces of mail. as 3 billion pieces less, $5 billion lost are we losing $2 for every piece of mail that we send? again, some of the questions that need to be answered. where are the numbers and what do they really mean? okay. i'm going to just leave you with one last thing. we've got to lighten up here now. how much paper does it take to buy one postage stamp? >> if you don't know, this is your receipt for one stamp it costs 44 cents. >> let me say to everybody that came up this evening -- i'm sorry. one more person here. your name? >> [inaudible] i was born in switzerland and i came to this country i was 18 and spent some time in canada. we've got the best system there is in the whole wide world. i know because i was at the bahamas for five years. we sent packages to my grandson that was in the marines, and within a week -- so please don't lock it up. [lau

postal service is desperate to stay afloat. >> reporter: these are tough times for president of the postal workers union cliff guthie. >> the post service say great lady, where the flag flies in america n all these small communities. to start backing that, solely for budgetary constraints, i think it's kind of add in a way. >> but you're saying we don't need to back that lady that lady, let's just slowly choke her out. >> choke her out or i don't think that's the proper term either. >> the truth is there's probably no i had yom for masturbation which could explain what congress is doing with the post office, but here are just some of the way these would like to [bleep] it. >> eliminating saturday delivery, close 3700 postal locations, layoff 120,000 workers. >> that's clearly not the will of the people. >> most americans want the service. but the reality is we may not have ten more years with the post office. >> ten years. >> i went to any town new jersey to warn the masses. >> the post office is in danger. >> in danger of what? >> of running out of business. >> i'm tired of sorting throug

postal policies. heavily subdiesed the cost of delivering newspapers. it allowed people of color to publish they're own newspapers and speak for themselves. it created a decentralized media system. where powerful companies have ever since successfully pressured or government to pass policies that benefit their corporate amibitions while silencing voices of everyday people. because throughout history, whenever new technology emerges, it fundamentally changes the existing media system. new industries emerge, such as the telegraph, radio, tv, cable tv, and when this happens, our government is face with a critical decision. does it regulate each industry to allow voices to speak or turn over control into a hands of a few. starting with the telegraph the government has turn over control to the hands of a few. this decision has put corporate greatgatekeepers in control of whose voices will be heard and whose voice will be major alized. it has caused ore communities great harm since we're unable to tell our own stories, and too often when other people tell our

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is there anything you can do to keep the postal service viable? there are a lot of people who do not have internet that depend on the postal service. >> my recommendation, which will probably not be received happily by the postal union, is that they renegotiate the contracts from the ground up. you have 9.5% unemployment. you have to ask yourself the question, what do you think you can hire the next postal worker for, given the market? >> how about prepaying retirement for people not even hired yet? >> that is something that congress and certainly could wave and that congress should be you -- and that should be waived. the underlying cost of the postal service has to be dealt with reckless. the lady in the back who wanted to say something? go ahead. >> yes, sir. the money of the federal reserve is pretty low. how do you propose to build that up? >> i do not think the money in the federal reserve is too low. i think the federal reserve system has been run to secretly. i think we need an audit of the federal reserve, an annual audit, frankly, and we

don't have internet and that depend on the postal service? >> my recommendation which will probably not be received happily by the postal union is that they renegotiate the contracts from the ground up. you got 9 1/2% unemployment. you have to ask yourself the question, what do you think you could hire the next postal worker for given the current market? >> how about prepaying the retirement for people that aren't hired yet? >> that is something that copping could waive and should be waived. i'm saying the underlying cost structure of the postal service has to be dealt with directly. it is too expensive a structure right now. the lady way back in the back who wanted to say something. go ahead. >> yes, sir. they say that the money in the federal reserve is pretty low. how do you propose to build that up? >> i don't think the money in the federal reserve is too low. i think the federal reserve system has been run too secretly. i think we need an audit of the federal reserve. i think we need an annual audit, frankly, and i think we need all of t

yesterday, postal service stop bid to take it back.r says he wasn't the intended recipient. >> it sat somewhere and the postal service for 36 years. and now... i will guarantee you that we'll go through a thousand dollars of federal bureaucracy to find out where it came from when is -- which is a mystery. >> it was addressed to a woman living at smith's address before he moved 25 years ago. >> and thanks for joining us for the news at 4:00. you can track of the latest breaking news and talk about it on facebook.com. the news continues right now. >> sheriff ross mirkarimi has a day in court on domestic violence charges and now, lawyers are wrangling over how long he must stay away from his wife and child. >> this rain may bring an end to the dry winter season. >> why having an affair is a bad idea if you've had a heart attack. >> good evening, i'm cheryl jenning autos rain is here and more is on the way. >> and that is good news for the bay area. and something not expected to change into the weekend. >> this has been so dry, rainfall we

postal service. last month the service announced it will need to make drastic cuts to stay afloat.al congressman has a plan to save it that does not include raising prices or cutting services. fox 5's melanie alnwick explains. reporter: the u.s. post office needs to cut $20 billion out of its budget. in december david williams vice president of postal operations delivered the bad news. >> the fact of the matter is our network is too big. we've got more capacity in our network than we can afford. reporter: the post office is seeking approval to close 261 processing centers, eliminate saturday delivery and next day delivery for first class mail and cut 28,000 jobs, most through retirement. >> we're being presented with false choices. reporter: virginia congressman jerry conley believes first congress should roll back its mandated posted in 2006 that requires usps to prepay 100% of its anticipated retirement costs. >> no other federal entity is required to prefund at 100%. the government accounting office says that costs an extra $5 billion a year. reporter: it's a start, but usps los

postal system i mean is that not a bureaucracy us postal service or as you know one of the last of us should you have you be on for a month a day give us some money for providing the same sorts of services providing the same sorts of services u.p.s. doesn't deliver first class mail and the fact that you can say you can take a letter in alaska have a deliver to new york city for in the neighborhood of fifty cents i mean that's amazing what the post office does and that they do it with every single house in america every day five days a week six days in losing billions of tax they're all a day they would be making a profit right now if during the bush administration in two thousand and six they had the republicans had not put in a poison pill piece of legislation that said that the post office over a ten year period has to be has to come up with five billion dollars a year to pay for the retirement health benefits of people seventy five years from now it was pure poison pill they would be profitable right now and they were profitable before i think. i say keep the u.s. post office but p

postal service is issuing a crime alert about shipping.rsonal information when shopping online. >>> plus, a new place to look for the best hotel rates. and the u.s. makes the best and worst lists when it comes to airport terminals. here's liz. tell us about that. >> best and worst. first, we start with the crime alert from the u.s. postal service. they say customers are receiving bogus e-mails about a package delivery. the e-mails claim to be from the united states postal service, but they are fake. they contain a link that when open contains a malicious virus that can steal information from your pc. the postal service says just don't click on the link. >>> in light of online shoe retailer zappos.com recently being breached by hackers. consumer reports is warning folks about online shopping safety. it gives us the following tips when using passwords or e-mail addresses. never use the same password for multiple sites. using different passwords, minimizing the chances the hacker can get into your other accounts. never use any part of your na

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the only postal service having to deal with the digital world. what we're seeing in europe and throughout the world is countries responding by giving the, their postal services much more flexibility. one example, a lot of people are unemployed. a lot of people get unemployment checks. sometimes in order to cash those checks, they have to go to a payday lender. why can't they walk into a postal service and cash that check at a minimal fee rather than paying 10%, 15%, 20% to a payday lender? one of the provisions that i think has got to be included in any serious postal reform legislation is a blue-ribbon commission made up of the best entrepreneurs we can find, those people within the postal service who have the most experience, who will tell us what can we do and how can we raise additional revenue when you've got thousands of post offices all over this country? can they be renting out their space? what other services can they be providing? right now we have the postal -- our letter carriers delivering mail to about 150 million doors every single

connelly with some support, also wants to give more options to raise revenue. >> we could use a postalehicle fleet which is huge, perhaps in fact the largest single vehicle fleet in america, for lots of other paid >> like weather or traffic monitoring, or let retailers set up shop inside post offices. >> starbucks, wants to pay the postal service to open up a branch, in a post office, why not. why not let them. >> connelly says it is vital to preserve affordable delivery for medicine and goods to rural communities. >> while the post master general appreciates congress' help he needs the ability to downsize the concern is that if remedies don't go far enough, usps could still need tax payer money to keep it from going under. >>> connelly will also have the entire postal vehicle fleet converted to electric vehicles. the argument here really gets to the heart of republican and democratic ideals. house republicans prefer an approach thatle lous the post office to downsize lay bar agreements, democrats -- labor agreements, democrats prefer existing jobs. >>> should you have the right to use

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. >> reporter: also, the mayor is dedicating the year of the dragon postal stamp that also happened thisg. there are a lot of new year's events going on. we've posted a link to our website so you can check out the locations and days. all of this culminating with the chinese new year parade which is on february 11th, 5:15 the largest parade of its kind outside of asia. for more information about to abc7news.com click on see it on tv. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> before you head to the post office, you might want to check your wallet, rates have gone up one cent, a first class stamp now costs 45 cents. officials hope it will raise additional 888 million dollars in annual revenue the hike come as the postal service fights to save by cutting back on hours and closing some retail outlets. >> forever stamps are the solution. >> yes. >> mike nicco ahead with the forecast. >> we were hoping the rain could last forever but it is over, we need more, but maybe not all at once you will see damage photos i received. we'll talk about how warm, sunny and dry it going to get. >>> yes there's finally f

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postal officials make their decision. >> what close the post office? that is not the problem. they are making money. >> her waverly branch is also on the proposed closure list. >> i think it is a terrible setback for the city of baltimore and citizens of baltimore, especially the poor and the elderly that have the least ability to go long distances for the kind of services they need and who use the post office is the most. >> regardless of what decisions they make about the facility, congress has decided to halt a more post office closings until may. reporting live in northeast baltimore northeastkai reed. >> police are looking for a suspect of a shooting and said it northeast baltimore carry out. it happened on liberty heights avenue just before 11:00 last night. the victims suffered gunshot wounds to the chest. the victim is in critical but stable condition. tonight the man police were trying to arrest in this video is finally under arrest. as you just saw, and another man suddenly attacked one of the police officers. the attack allowed at the initial suspect to get a way. a

only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship and return. >>> iowa finally is done.o next up, the battleground of new hampshire. and john berman is there in manchester. >> reporter: new hampshire picks presidents. just ask past new hampshire winners. presidents gary hart, pat buchanan, john mccain, and president hillary clinton. >> thank you, thank you. >> reporter: okay, maybe it doesn't always pick presidents. but it is the next great step on that yellow brick road to the emerald city of the nomination. and guess who has a lake house by the yellow brick road. >> i've got a summer home here, we've got a lot of friends here. >> reporter: mitt romney, the former massachusetts governor, has a vacation house here and has been campaigning here since 2007. and will be very hard to beat here. >> good to see you. >> reporter: also waiting for the candidates here? >> welcome to new hampshire. >> reporter: former governor jon huntsman skipped iowa and has been camped out in the granite state for months. he knows if iowa is the place for candidates licking their wounds, new ha