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Options Few as U.S. Leaders Told Saturday Mail Can’t End - Bloomberg

Without being able to cut back to five delivery days from six, the Postal Service will take its board’s advice and ask its employee unions to renegotiate multiyear contracts, consider asking regulators for an emergency rate increase and cut administrative costs, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said in an interview. He said he broached the notion of renegotiating union contracts with labor leaders yesterday.

“They know we’re in a fix in terms of our operating costs,” Donahoe said. “I’m hoping they’ll at least entertain the idea.”

The service’s two largest unions questioned the need to reopen their contracts, which don’t allow career employees to be fired without cause, saying they made concessions when those agreements were negotiated. The service, which lost $15.9 billion last year, estimated it would save $2 billion annually by ending Saturday mail deliveries.

Former Phoenix UPS driver found guilty of drug trafficking - WECT

A former Phoenix UPS driver has been found guilty of delivering drugs and drug money for a Mexican drug operation while on the job.

The office of U.S. Attorney John S. Leonardo said Robert Gene White, 45, of Chandler, was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute more than 1,000 kilograms of pot and less than 500 grams of cocaine, conspiracy to commit money laundering and three counts of transactional money laundering.

UPS appeals EU rejection of $6.7 billion TNT Express bid - Reuters

United Parcel Services Inc has appealed the European Union regulator's decision to block its 5.16 billion euro ($6.7 billion) bid for Dutch competitor TNT Express NV, a UPS spokeswoman told Reuters on Sunday.

U.S.-based UPS, the world's No. 1 package delivery company, dropped its bid to buy the Dutch firm on January 14, on the expectation of an EU veto of the merger.

UPS has decided to challenge the EU's decision because it believes it was "factually and legally erroneous," Peggy Gardner, a UPS spokeswoman, wrote in an e-mail to Reuters.

Police arrest UPS employee for theft - WIVB

A UPS employee is under arrest after being accused of rerouting a valuable package to his own address.

UPS confirms the worker from a Buffalo plant has been arrested and is suspected of stealing. Cheektowaga Police tell News 4 they arrested a 26-year-old Cheektowaga man at his home on Thursday. Authorities say he was caught with two stolen silver bars, valued at about $5,000.

According to police, the man, who they will not name, set up an elaborate scheme that had packages redirected from the plant to his Cheektowaga home. The man would place a shipping label onto the box with his home address, rather than sending the package where it was supposed to go, according to police.