3/4/10
Post Office
Teams With Target To Save Money
Facing a projected $7 billion loss
this year, the United States Postal Service is hoping to shut down
some locations and reopen in drug stores and grocery chains to save
money. In North Texas, Target has already launched a joint venture
with USPS designed to give its customers more in-store convenience.
USPS
planning to add kiosks to retail stores and consumer sites |
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'The Path Forward' of the Postal Service
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Technology Could Deliver USPS From Debt
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Confessions of a Former Station Manager 2010 (PDF)
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Body of missing Postal Worker found
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USPS to test a repurposed electric vehicle fleet
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Supreme Court Upholds Order to Remove
Religious Materials From Contract PO
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Bill calls for feds who owe taxes to be fired
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TSP: Getting Bigger & Better
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Postal Service Preparing Double Whammy
for Publishers
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Direct Marketers, Catalog Companies:
We Can Adjust to Five-Day Postal Week
3/3/10
APWU Rejects USPS Call For Five-Day Delivery,
New Business Model
Calls For OIG Investigation
into USPS expanding role of subcontracting
- APWU President William
Burrus condemned USPS proposals to reduce mail delivery to five
days per week, saying, “It would be the beginning of the demise
of the Postal Service. “Postal management has intensified its financial
problems by offering excessive worksharing discounts to major mailers
and by subcontracting work at exorbitant costs,” Burrus said. “We
call for a thorough investigation by the Office of the Inspector
General into the expanding role of subcontracting and the inflated
costs associated with them,” he said.
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Postal Service Plans to Use More Part-Time
Employees
Dead Tree Edition: The U.S. Postal
Service plans to rely more on part-time employees as it adjusts
its operations for declining mail volume.“ Annually, approximately
5 percent of employees are eligible and expected to retire. It would
not make sense to replace them with full-time employees if demand
is moving in a direction better suited to a part-time workforce,”
the USPS says in its “Action Plan for the Future” “Over the next
10 years, over 300,000 employees — more than half the current workforce
— will be eligible to retire. This will provide an opportunity to
make the workforce even more efficient by increasing use of flexible
and part-time employees.”
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Linda Welch Named VP, Southeast Area
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Confessions of a Former Station Manager 2010 (PDF)
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PRC Initiates Review of USPS Pension Liability
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Audit Report - Highway Contract Route Transportation - Greater Chicago
(PDF)
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Postal Service Requests PRC Review of CSRS Liabilities (PDF)
3/2/10
NALC opposes cutback in mail service; urges
Congress to give USPS ‘financial breathing room’
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“I do not believe that weakening
our commitment of six-day service to the public will enhance the
long-term position of the Postal Service as a critical element
in our nation’s economic infrastructure,” Rolando said. “In view
of the January report released by the postal Inspector General
that showed that the USPS was overcharged by $75 billion for
postal pension costs, Congress instead should take immediate
steps to correct the error.”
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Postal Service
Outlines 10-Year Plan to Address Declining Revenue, Volume
Facing unprecedented volume declines and a projected, cumulative
$238 billion shortfall during the next decade, Postmaster General
John E. Potter today outlined an aggressive plan of cost cutting,
increased productivity, and an array of legislative and regulatory
changes necessary to maintain a viable United States Postal Service.
Establish a more flexible workforce that is better positioned to
respond to changing demand patterns, as more than 300,000 employees
become eligible to retire in the coming decade.
Postal
Service to shed another 30000 jobs
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Postal myths- is Potter right?
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OH: Bomb threat
prompts search of post office
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USPS Confirm EMD
Gets Another Stay of Execution
3/1/10
Postal
Service Expected To Announce 'Significant Changes'
The U.S. Postal Service will release
projections Tuesday that confirm for the first time the suspicion
that mail volume will never return to pre-recession levels. In response,
the agency is pushing anew for a dramatic reshaping of how Americans
get and send their letters and packages. In an effort to offset
some of the losses, Potter seeks more flexibility in the coming
year to set delivery schedules, prices and labor costs. The changes
could mean an end to Saturday deliveries, longer delivery times
for letters and packages, higher postage-stamp prices that exceed
the rate of inflation, and the potential for future layoffs. Officials
will also seek greater flexibility in forthcoming union negotiations,
including addressing ballooning health-care costs, Potter said.
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Message From PMG Jack Potter: Envisioning America’s Future Postal
Service
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Previewing the Postal Service's Proposal |
USPS is pushing for a radical reshaping |
Could Longer
Lines Be Coming to Your Local Post Office…Lottery Lines?
USPS OIG: According to a representative
on the Postal Regulatory Commission’s staff, a Postal Service-run
lottery “could offer the potential for substantial profits for the
Postal Service and utilize its current retail infrastructure with
its 36,000 retail outlets.” Popular lottery formats in many states
include drawings and instant lottery tickets. The claim is that
running a national lottery could help the U.S. Postal Service close
its multibillion-dollar budget gap. It could also build foot traffic
to post offices, increasing retail sales of postal products. A lottery
might bring in a lot of revenue, but would it also bring more problems.
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Postal Service
to Add Self-Service Retirement Feature to LiteBlue
The Postal Service will add a new feature
(eRetire) to LiteBlue which will provide employees the option of
using self-service to begin the retirement process.
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Tree Crushes
Mail Truck
A Westport postal worker is injured
but lucky after a tree crushed a mail truck on Monday. Postal
Worker : "I Lucked Out"
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TSP Funds Flourish
In February
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Coca-Cola PepsiCo
and the USPS
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Crews search forest for missing mail
bags
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Going green, Postal Service expands
recycling
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