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United Postal Service cutting close to 12,000 jobs

By Karen Graham, January 30, 2024

January 30,2024 United Postal Service cutting close to 12,000 jobsUnited Postal Service cutting close to 12,000 jobsUnited Postal Service cutting close to 12,000 ,

The Post Office Department seems to be going from bad to worse and consumers are going to be hit with increased costs for stamps and other postal necessities.

The Postal Service is also planning on doing away with its Coyote truckload brokerage, and may put the business up for sale. UPS acquired the Chicago-based company for $1.8 billion in 2015.

The Teamsters in September voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with UPS, putting a final seal on contentious labor negotiations that threatened to disrupt package deliveries

One thing is really sad. UPS sighed a contract with thye nTea msters Union a mere five months ago, according to CBS News

The workforce reduction is part of an effort to align resources in 2024 and will save the company nearly $1 billion, the Atlanta-based company’s CEO Carole Tomé said on a company earnings call Tuesday7 morning.

“I want to thank UPSers for providing the best on-time performance of any carrier for the sixth year in a row,” Tomé said in a statement released by the company Tuesday. “2023 was a unique and difficult year and through it all we remained focused on controlling what we could control, stayed on strategy and strengthened our foundation for future growth.”

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The men who gave us insulin

Guest journalist: Karen Graham, January 23, 2024

Since the dawn of time, we have searched for ways to make life easier for us. Before insulin was discovered in 1921, people with diabetes didn’t live for long; there wasn’t much doctors could do for them.

Before the advent of insulin people with diabetes didn’t live for long; there wasn’t much doctors could do for them. The most effective treatment was to put patients with diabetes on very strict diets with minimal carbohydrate intake. This could buy patients a few extra years but couldn’t save them. Harsh diets (some prescribed as little as 450 calories a day!) sometimes even caused patients to die of starvation.

Humanity owes a huge debt of gratitude to the “pancreatic extract” co-discovered by Doctor Frederick Banting and Doctor Charles Best at the University of Toronto in the summer of 1921.

Little Teddy Ryder, who was five-years-old in the spring of 1922 when news of insulins discovery broke, weighed a mere 26 pounds. He had lost all interest in playing and was unable to take but a few steps at that time.

Writing to Frederick Banting, Teddy’s uncle—a doctor at New York’s Bellevue Hospital—stressed his nephew’s perilous condition: “It looks to me as though a very few months … will be all he can hold out … I need not tell you how earnestly I hope you will see your way clear to treat him.”

Needless to say, Dr. Banting did treat little Teddy. Travelling to Toronto by train with his mother, the little boy received his first dose of insulin on July 10, 1922. By the fall Teddy was strong enough to return home to his family and a new life in New Jersey.

“I wish you could come to see me,” the now robust six-year-old wrote to Banting the following year. “I am a fat boy now and I feel fine. I can climb a tree.”

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