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USPS Statement on Market Survey Research Filed with the PRC  |

 

USPS, Postal Supervisors Fail To Reach Pay Agreement  |

MSPB Issues Decision In Postal Employees NRP Cases  |

 

USPS paid out nearly $1 Billion In Overtime During FY 2012 First Quarter

Senators Announce USPS Agreement To Delay Postal Facility Closures For 5 Months

 

OIG Audit Finds Problems with application of criteria used by USPS To Select Post Office Closures - |

 

Edmond Walker vs USPS EEO Class Survey  |

OPM Announce Changes in Life Insurance Premium for 2012 |

 

New Website Lists USPS Properties for Sale   |

 

Senators Introduce 21st Century Postal Service Act  - A bipartisan group of senators announce plans to reform and bring savings to the USPS |

Postal Workers Allowed To Campaign Against Mail Changes

 

USPS Warning to Postal Employees About Campaigning Against Mail changes   |  

 

USPS Wants to Offer Eligible Postal Workers Early Retirement?

 I’m amazed anyone would retire right now without waiting to see what comes out of Congress by November 18th, the new deadline for USPS to make its $5.5 billion payment. |

 

USPS to Implement Nationwide Clerk Excessing In November - Info indicates there will be a nationwide excessing move date of Nov. 19, 2011. USPS, APWU MOU On Non Traditional Full-Time Duty Assignments |

 

 LATEST POSTAL NEWS  

USPS Announces ‘Modified Consolidation Plan’; Implementation to Begin This Summer, No Specifics Provided - The USPS notified the APWU today, May 16, that it has developed a modified network consolidation plan and, “Now that the moratorium has expired, consolidation activities will begin this summer.” However, postal managers did not provide the union with a list of which facilities would be affected and when. The information will be made available to the union on May 17, in advance of the public release, the letter says.   (05/16/12) |

USPS Release POStPlan FAQs

USPS has released Frequently asked Questions (FAQS) for HR Related POStPlan and POStPlan Questions.     (05/16/12) |

Postal Service launching digital enterprise

The U.S. Postal Service, an organization inextricably associated with the delivery of lots and lots of paper, is creating a new enterprise focused on the online sphere, Heading the group will be Paul Vogel, who has been USPS president and chief marketing/sales officer. Replacing Vogel as chief marketing/sales officer will be Coca-Cola executive Nagisa Manabe At the soft drink giant, Manabe served as vice president of new growth platforms, according to Donahoe’s memo.   (05/16/12) |

Postal Decisions to Be Announced Thursday

Final word on processing plants - The Postal Service will announce changes to its distribution network Thursday, a representative with the agency tells NewsChannel 5.A self-imposed moratorium on potential closures within its mail processing network ended Tuesday." Prior to public release of any additional information, our top priority, as is standard operating procedure, is to ensure our employees are notified first,” said Tom Rizzo, a Postal Service spokesman.  (05/15/12) |

What are people — and the Post Office — for?

THE POSTPLAN is little more than a cruel joke.  It offers hope to those who thought they might lose their local post office.  In reality it is little more than an interim step towards closing 13,000 post offices, maybe more.  The fact is that the dramatic prescriptions originally offered by Mr. Donahoe could never have occurred at the rate initially announced. It would have been operationally infeasible to close offices at the rate Mr. Donahoe wanted — 15,000 in five years.  But just by threatening those closures, POStPlan looks like a reasonable alternative.It isn’t. The POSt Plan — combined with DUO (Delivery Unit Optimization to move carriers from one office to another) and other retail initiatives like the VPO (Village Post Office) — will simply provide a methodical way of degrading offices, reducing their revenue-generating potential, and starving them into oblivion. The plans will replace trained and committed career employees with low-paid, casual labor — the mantra of today’s economy. (05/15/12) |

Pennsylvania postmaster charged with theft of nearly $28,000 from post office

According to court records, Springer took $18,195 in unsupported postage meter refunds .He claimed more than $5,153 in custodial expenses without supporting documentation,  police said. .He also failed to account for $4,305 in post office box rent revenues,  He accepted those revenues, either in cash or check, and failed to account for them in his daily financial reports, records say. On Nov. 6, 2009, Springer failed to account for $150 in postage meter revenue he collected from post office customers, records say.  (05/15/12) |

Congressman Issa Having Trouble Getting GOP Support for His Postal Reform Bill - Republican leaders appear unable to muster votes for their preferred version-from House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif.-but they are so far also unwilling to take up an alternative that the Senate passed last month with support from both parties. PR note: Maybe Issa can use the "find friends" feature on Facebook to help him out.  (05/15/12) |
Postal Supervisor Who Feigned Attack Admits Making False Statements To Postal Inspectors - Gogets staged an assault and robbery on his person while on postal property. The assault and robbery never occurred. Gogets self-inflicted a wound to his head.   (05/15/12) |

Korea memorial sculptor entitled to more money from postal service - An 87-year-old sculptor is entitled to more money from the U.S. Postal Service after it made tens of millions of dollars from using an image of his Korean War memorial on stamps and merchandise. The postal service sold 86.8 million of the stamps and licensed the image to retailers, reaping estimated revenues of $30.2 million, but failed to request Gaylord's permission for use of the image of his sculpture.   (05/14/12) |

 Postal Service stalls plan to close 600 urban and suburban stations

 U.S. Postal Service spokesman Richard Watkins says the agency is stalling plans to close 600 urban and suburban postal branch offices and satellite stations. Watkin’s announcement Monday follows the agency’s decision last week to halt the planned shutdown of hundreds of rural post offices, saying they can remain open with shorter hours. The stations are manned by APWU-represented employees (05/14/12) |

POStPlan: Map, Charts, & More

On May 9, the Postal Service released POStPlan, its new plan for small rural post offices.  The plan will impact 13,000 post offices.  Over the coming months, the Postal Service will begin holding community meetings to discuss the options: replace the post office with a “village post office” (a postal counter in a private business), close the post office and switch to rural delivery, or keep the post office open at reduced hours — two, four, or six hours per day, depending on the office’s revenues.  Full-time careeer postmasters will be replaced by part-time workers at these part-time offices.  Details about the plan are here.   (05/14/12) |

What’s Next on Postal Reform

While the Senate has approved a postal reform bill, there is no rush in the House, as no postal reform legislation is on the schedule again this week.And since the House will be taking another 10 day break at the end of this week, no postal legislation could even reach the floor until June.Postal Service officials promised another announcement this week - it wasn't immediately clear whether there would be announcements of shut downs in mail distribution and sorting facilities nationwide.  (05/14/12) |

NALC Grieves NTFT Clerks Excessed into Letter Carrier Craft

The 2011 APWU National Agreement created a new category of clerks called non-traditional full-time (NTFT) clerks. Many of these NTFT clerks have a regular schedule of fewer than 40 hours per week. Management has begun to excess some of these clerks into full-time letter carrier jobs. The NALC believes that a clerk who works fewer than 40 hours can only be excessed into another part-time regular position, not into a full-time letter carrier position.  (05/14/12) |

Editorial: Imperfect postal decision doesn't sit well with Montana delegation
Shame on the Postal Service for playing games with numbers. Shame on Congress for playing politics with post offices that are highly important to communities. We think that the Senate bill would do a sensible thing by getting the Postal Service out from underneath an onerous multi-billion-dollar requirement to heavily pre-pay health costs. That's not something that other federal agencies are required to do. Post Office Hour Reductions, Called a “Win-Win,” Feel More Like a Lose-Lose  (05/14/12) |

 Ill worker fights postal service over toxic mail

The package, now missing, has created a mystery — and solving that mystery could be the key to saving Lill’s life. In the weeks after his exposure to the package, Lill fell devastatingly and inexplicably ill. He suffers from extreme fatigue, tremors, and liver and neurological problems consistent with toxic exposure. He has become so sick that he cannot work and now must be cared for his by mother in New York. Lill’s doctors say they have no way to treat him without knowing what chemicals were inside the package.All the while, the Postal Service has refused to investigate, stating through lawyers that the incident never occurred. But the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, in partnership with the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkeley, uncovered related documents and interviewed two whistleblowers who confirm what happened on Feb. 4, 2011 — showing that the Postal Service has refused to investigate not only the potential cause for the illness of an employee, but also what could have been a chemical weapon in Florida. OSHA probing former Florida postal worker's illness claims |  After Package From Yemen, Questions About Worker Illness and Government Response   (05/13/12) |

POStPlan by the numbers

The plan would reduce the total number of operating hours per day at these 13,000 offices from about 100,000 hours to 57,000 — a reduction of 43,000 hours or 43%.  Over the course of a year, hours of operation would be reduced by over 11 million hours (43,000 x 260 weekdays — the plan doesn’t deal with Saturdays).The country has 32,000 post offices.  Figuring they operate eight hours a day (not all do), five days a week, the total operating hours for the USPS retail network comes to about 66 million hours.  POStPlan would thus reduce that by 11 million hours, or 16%.   (05/13/12) |

Senator Schumer: The Buffalo Processing Facility Will Be Open For At least 3 Years -Today, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer announced that the Williams Street Processing Center, which would have been eligible for closure when the current post office and facility moratorium expires on May 15th, will remain open for at least three years. Throughout the postal reform debate, Schumer lobbied the Postmaster General to keep the processing facility open, in order to preserve overnight mail service in Western New York and the facility’s 700 jobs.   (05/13/12) |

GOP Votes Pay Cut For Postal, Federal Workers

The House of Representatives voted for a 5 percent cut in postal and federal workers’ pay on May 10 by approving an increase in employees’ pension contributions. Republican members of the House provided all 218 votes in favor of the measure, while 183 Democrats and 16 Republicans opposed it.  (05/13/12) |

More Than 100 Members of Congress Seek Extension of Moratorium on Mail Processing Facilities -Recently the Postmaster General has said there won’t be a large number of closures as soon as the moratorium expires, but he has not agreed to extend the moratorium.But postal workers, along with many lawmakers and postal customers, are unwilling to rely on his public reassurances that closures will be handled methodically and will not be disruptive.  (05/11/12) |
USPS Moving Forward on Plant Consolidations–Announcement Coming May 17th Although no wholesale closures are immediately in the works, “we’ll have some consolidations in the summer, the majority after the first of the year.” Donahoe said.  (05/11/12) |

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05/17/12

Sen. Collins: USPS To continue operations at Eastern Maine facility, saving 150 jobs

Mid-Hudson mail facility to stay open for now

 

05/15/12

GSA Instructs Agencies to Presort Their Mail (PDF)

How Makers, Hackers, and Entrepreneurs Can Save the USPS

Iowa among top 10 states hit by reduced post office hours

Personal data for California home care workers, recipients lost in the mail

 

05/14/12

Postal Service Offering $50,000 Reward In Robbery Case

USPS Incents Commercial Mailers to Combine Mobile Marketing With Direct mail

Ex-postal carrier charged with fraudulently cashing $143,000 in disability checks

 

05/13/12

Video: Postal food drive intercepted by thieves

 

05/12/12

Video: Postal big rig involved in deadly accident

Editorial: Capitol Hill, Slower Than Snail Mail
Postal workers can only wait, hope

Ohio postal workers accused of embezzling, throwing away mail

 

05/11/12

Teens Accused of Trying to Rob Postal Worker in Detroit

 

05/10/12

APWU Urges House: Address Postal Reform Now, Start With Senate Bill

The attention of lawmakers, postal workers and customers shifted to the House after the Senate passed a bi-partisan postal bill (S. 1789) on April 25, but, so far, House leaders have displayed no sense of urgency in addressing the issue. As CNN Money reported on April 27, “Aides say Republican leaders don’t feel pressured to take up the House bill right away, because they’re not worried about postal closures.” NAPS: When Will the House Take Up Postal Reform? The plans announced on Wednesday by the Postal Service to keep open thousands of rural post offices has neutralized one of the most controversial provisions in the House postal measure, backed by Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and awaiting floor action.  Numerous problems with the House legislation yet remain, and Republican House leaders have not yet signalled when they intend to bring the Issa legislation to the floor, but it could come next month. Sen. Carper: USPS Financial Losses Underscore Urgent Need for House to Act on Postal Reform Legislation  |

 

just when you thought it couldn't get any worse: The Postal Service has a new plan for the post office - Save The Post Office - The Postal Service’s new plan — awkwardly named  "Post Office Structure Plan," or POStPlan — will reduce the hours of operation at 13,000 small post offices from eight hours a day to six, four, even two.  And instead of staffing the post office with a career postmaster, these offices will be run by a part-time worker with little or no experience.  It’s a deadly combination, and it will do more harm than good. |

 

USPS Ends FY Second Quarter With $3.2 Billion Lost – YTD $6.5 Billion

The Postal Service ended its second quarter (Jan. 1 – March 31) with a net loss of $3.2 billion, compared to a net loss of $2.2 billion for the same period last year.  Despite ongoing management actions that have grown and improved efficiency, the losses will continue until key provisions of the Postal Service five-year business plan move forward. The Postal Service continues to suffer from a severe lack of liquidity caused by over $25 billion of cumulative net losses in the past five fiscal years which included $21 billion of Congressionally-mandated payments for prefunding retiree health benefits NALC: USPS reports that pre-funding accounts for $6.2B of the $6.5B in red ink. |

 

Video: Postal workers put off by naked customers

Two letter carriers are taking action against what they call a hostile working environment. They say they are forced to deliver packages to unclothed customers. It`s a culture clash between those who enjoy being naked and workers who don`t want to see their nakedness. |

 

USPS Won't Ship iPads Overseas, And Techies Couldn't Care Less

 

05/09/12

Lawmakers React to News Of USPS "POSTPlan"

Senator Sanders: Good News, Bad News in New Postal Plan - voiced reservations about a new plan to cut hours of operation. Senator Carper Reacts to PMG’s Announcement on Cost-Cutting Measures for USPS - this solution doesn’t go far enough to encourage a responsible reduction in its workforce. Senator Baucus Skeptical of Postal Service Plan to Cut Office Hours - , the proposal to cut hours does not make a dent in the Postal Services’ budget problems. Senator Collins’ Reaction to PMG’s Plans Regarding Small Post Offices -I am cautiously optimistic that the Postmaster General has now devised a plan that will help preserve some essential postal services for rural America, |

 

New Strategy to Preserve the Nation’s Smallest Post Offices

The struggling U.S. Postal Service is trying to tamp down concern over its wide-scale cuts, saying it will seek to keep hundreds of rural post offices open with shorter hours. List of Post Offices Affected Under USPS New Plan | Avalanche averted: Postal Service backs off plan to close thousands of post offices|   PMG Announces POStPlan at Media Briefing  |

 

Updated: USPS offering $20,000 voluntary retirement incentives to 21,000 postmasters -Postmasters will have until June 22, 2012 to accept the offer and must agree to leave the Postal Service effective July 31, 2012 |

 

PMG Requests OIG Audit on Postal Employees Retirement Options

This report responds to a request from the postmaster general. The Postal Service is analyzing the options available for early retirement as it looks to reduce the size of its workforce. "|

 

Can Part-Time Retirement Save USPS?

Govexec.com - As U.S. Postal Service representatives announced a new plan for rural post office closures Wednesday, discussion continues on a more comprehensive USPS overhaul. No matter the outcome or timeline for reform, a lesser-known regulation already on the books could affect Postal Service retirees’ pay and benefits in the near term.|

 

Fox News, Wrong Again In Story About USPS

The piece is clearly designed to drum up support for a discredited House bill (H.R. 2309) sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL), and to undermine support for a bill approved by the Senate on April 25. |

 

USPS, APWU Agreement Upgrades Level 6 Maintenance Support Clerks, Updates Staffing

Postal worker wins $1 million from former NASCAR driver Mayfield in dog attack

 

05/08/12

USPS Announces Final Postmaster Pay Package for 2011-2015

The revised pay package provides for a 9% increase in contributions towards the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHP) plan over a 3 year period, as opposed to a 9% increase over a two year period in the original package. " |

 

Bring On the Early Out – With Incentives

Burrus Journal - Something doesn’t add up. Congress has introduced legislation authorizing the use of the retirement overpayment as incentives for eligible employees to retire. The postmaster general repeatedly tells everyone who will listen that he plans to reduce the work force through voluntary retirements without replacing the employees, while tens of thousands of eligible employees who meet the retirement eligibility await the announcement that incentives are being offered. Yet, the USPS’ revenue is not sufficient to meet its expenses.  |

 

Missouri Letter Carrier killed in head-on car crash

30-year-old Alanna Gierer was driving eastbound on the north service road when a car pulling a U-Haul trailer in the westbound lanes of I-70 ran off the road and struck Gierer head-on. " |

 

USPS Ending Postal Employee Platinum Visa Card?

USPS is ending its relationship with Chase Bank USA effective June 29, 2012. The website postalemployeevisa.com is no longer working. |

 

APWU: Settlement Clarifies 204B Language

Senator Webb to PMG: Keep Post Offices Open Until Postal Reform is Enacted

 

05/07/12

GOP Members of Congress Write to Boehner, Pelosi On Postal Reform, Issa-Ross Responds - Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) released the following statement after he and sixteen Members of Congress sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi regarding the Postal Service targeting rural postal facilities as a means of addressing its massive budget shortfall:  Issa-Ross: "We will work with Representative Smith to enable him to offer an amendment during floor consideration of H.R. 2309 that builds on the protections proposed by Ms. Buerkle and further protects small post offices. A potential amendment could place a permanent restriction in law stating that the Postal Service is barred from closing no more than five percent of the total number of post offices defined within Cost Ascertainment Group (CAG) K and L in any calendar year."  |

 

Northrop Grumman Sues USPS Over $874M FSS Contract

Grumman claims USPS owes them $millions- Also claims USPS breached the terms of the $412 million discount from the $1.3 Billion dollar contract (reduced to $874 million) . Plus, immediately following execution of the Production Contract in February 2007 and continuing through the end of Program deployments in mid-2011, the Postal Service improperly wrested design control from NGSC, ignored the performance specifications on which the firm fixed-price Production Contract had been based, persistently and pervasively imposed extra-contractual design requirements on NGSC, and otherwise interfered with NOSC's performance. .  |

 

Burrus: To Retire Or Not

Over the past year, employees have been bombarded with information about the expectation that the Postal Service would offer a $25,000 incentive to those eligible to retire. This message has been targeted at the more than 100,000 employees who have reached eligibility and it is assumed that an incentive will inspire them to pull the trigger and that they will exchange their postal badge for a ticket to leisure world.   |

 

Looking back on postal reform: Where were you in 1976?
Save the Post Office - As the debate over postal reform shifts to the House and the rhetoric heats up a few more degrees, this might be a good time to take a step back and look at a little history.  In many ways, history is repeating itself, and a look back may give us some sense of where things are headed (or not). |

 

Going Postal in Washington, D. C.

5 things feds should know about Roth TSP

 

05/06/12

Reform Bill an Important Step in Preserving U.S. Postal Service

Postal reform is among the most significant issues we will consider this year. It touches every town and village, every person and every business across our nation. The Postal Service’s universal service obligation – the obligation to ensure that all Americans have access to an affordable, efficient postal system in order to communicate with one another – is among the most important obligations any agency or department has. It sets the Postal Service apart from private-sector firms that are under no obligation to serve all markets. The Postal Service’s first obligation is not profit. It is service. |

 

Iron Range town fighting for more than the mail

Postal Service struggles; senator tilts at windmills

It's Time for Liberals to Rethink USPS Downsizing

 

05/05/12

Former Postal Inspector Sentenced To Prison for Perjury and Obstruction of Justice - The Postal Inspector was sentenced to one year and one day in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release and a $4,000 fine. On Jan. 26, 2012, McGonagle pleaded guilty to perjury and obstruction of justice.   |

 

Postal inspector helped deliver justice to The Bishop

Hundreds jam-pack Cuvier Club to fight for La Jolla legacy

Vehicles obstacles to postal service at Oak Lawn mobile home community 
Editorial: Delivery time for postal bill
Letter carriers fear tax criminals

POSTNET Barcode Discontinuation (PDF)

 

05/04/12

PMG: We Never Used the Word ‘Closure'

In an interview televised on C-SPAN on April 27, Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe down-played the threat of post office and mail processing plant closures and suggested no major changes would take place anytime soon.“ ‘Closure’ is a word we’ve never used,” he said. Really?|

 

Senator Collins Thanked By USPS IG For Progress On Postal Reform

U.S. Senator Susan Collins, one of the lead sponsors of bipartisan, comprehensive postal reform, received praise for her leadership on the issue from the U.S. Postal Service Inspector General. David C. Williams wrote to Senator Collins to express his appreciation for her work to put the Postal Service on a financially viable path.   |

 

San Francisco Ex-letter carrier gets 4 years for attacking supervisor who fired him - A former letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service was sentenced today to four years in state prison for ramming his former supervisor with a truck near his Albany home seven months after the supervisor fired him. Police said Lu and Bustamante both worked at a post office branch in San Francisco and that Lu had worked for the Postal Service for 15 years before he was fired.|

 

Board of Governors Chairman and PMG To Release Plans for USPS Soon

We hear plenty of opinions about how to move forward, but there is no doubt that we need to resolve our business model issues quickly.. |

 

APWU, USPS Agree On New Lead Clerk Jobs

The APWU and USPS agreed to job descriptions for new Lead Clerk positions on May 4, and agreed to the process for posting and bidding the new positions.  |

 

Romney rips 'unfairness' of federal pay, benefits

Postal Service officials keep pressing for their own reform plan

Editorial: Solve it- Congress has to find ways to help post office save itself

The U.S. Postal Service is doing a little better (uh-oh)

Days Before Death Junior Seau Celebrated Life of Postal Carrier at memorial

Postal Service ad creates national buzz for small West Michigan company

Lawmakers push for vote to limit post office closures

Senate postal reform falls short

 

05/03 /12

43 Senators Call on PMG To Extend Moratorium On Post Office Closures

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) today joined a bipartisan group of 43 Senators in a letter urging the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to extend its current moratorium on post office closures until after a postal reform bill is signed into law. The current moratorium is scheduled to expire on May 15. Senators lobby both sides of postal moratorium |

 

GOP Senators Urge PMG To Move Forward With Cost-Saving Measures

Noting the unlikelihood that Congress will reach an agreement on postal system reforms anytime soon and that the postal service is on track to lose $21 billion annually by 2016 without changes to its business model, U.S. Senators Bob Corker, John McCain, and Tom Coburn today wrote to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe urging him to “move forward with cost-saving changes.”

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Lawmakers push for vote to limit post office closures

CNBC - A bipartisan group of lawmakers is trying to drum up support in the House of Representatives to vote on a Senate-passed bill that would make it tougher for the Postal Service to close some facilities, in part by targeting representatives who may lose postal facilities and jobs in their districts.

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The truth about Postal Reform

.National Newspaper Association - Now that the U.S. Senate has passed S 1789 to reform the ailing U.S. Postal Service, critics are trying to disable the bill on its way to the House of Representatives.  Business Week recently cited unhappy stakeholders, including postal unions, postal management and some Republicans who mistakenly believe the bill burdens taxpayers. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-CA, whose own bill awaits action in the House, blasted “special interests.” But Business Week says, “Considering how many people are unhappy with the bill, it isn’t clear which special interests Issa is referring to.”  |

 

Revised Estimates for Network Rationalization: Where have all the savings gone? Save the Post Office- The Network Rationalization plan to consolidate some 260 mail processing plants may be running into problems.  Not all the plants were approved for consolidation, so this week the Postal Service submitted revised estimates to the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). |

 

Ex-Iowa letter carrier accused of sending dud pipe bombs represents himself at trial

Bloomberg View: Congress Delivers for the Postal Service

State Lawmaker Running for Congress: I know how to fix the post office

Tussle Over Connecticut Post Office Goes On

Costs, savings of Postal Service changes in Erie become clearer
Manchin: ‘Nothing more American than the post office’

 

05/02 /12

USPS May 15th Deadline is Approaching, So What Happens Next?

What about an early out? That too is still up in the air, as the Postal Service does not appear ready to make a final decision on its Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (VERA) until the agency knows which plants may close or be consolidated, and how many employees that may affect. And, as always, the Postal Service has to negotiate about the VERA with the Union before it can be implemented. 

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Video: New York letter carrier smashes van into parked car, and then fled the scene - Luckily, there were witnesses. One even snapped a picture of the accident scene. The white postal van backed into the Maxima so hard the 2 bumpers attached. A witness says a postal supervisor responded.  |

 

USPS Southwest Area has changed its name to Southern Area

Explaining the change, Southern Area Vice President Jo Ann Feindt notes, “With territory that spans the entire Gulf Coast and other southern states, we felt Southern Area was our most accurate description.” |

 

The truth about the U.S. Postal Service

They say the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is broke. But just six years ago, it generated a small profit, paid for itself and wasn't a burden to taxpayers. In fact, contrary to right-wing rhetoric, the USPS hasn't taken a dime from taxpayers since 1971. So what happened? |

 

Fate of Postal Service Awaits Action in House

Jonesville Post Office step closer to staying open

Swansea postal worker retires with a million miles on the road

Rearranging the Deck Chairs at the Postal Service

PRC Dismisses Complaint in SF SRO Case (PDF)

USPS OIG Report on the Future of First Class Mail (PDF)

New York Letter Carriers plead guilty to workers comp fraud

Postal Worker pleads guilty to theft

Senate Authors of Postal Reform Seek Delay Of Postal Closings From Postmaster General

 

05/01 /12

Video: PMG on State of the USPS

Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe’s message to employees on state of the Postal Service  

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PMG Donahoe: Post office closings to be spread out

Only a few post offices will close soon after May 15, when a moratorium on consolidation plans expires, U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said. Donahoe said many of the branches at risk of being shuttered could stay open for months. Video: PMG Patrick R. Donahoe on  C-SPAN  |

 

Senate Postal Leaders Urge House Leadership to Act Quickly on Postal Reform Legislation- In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, the Senators call on the House to act on legislation before May 15 so that the two chambers can reconcile their bills to turn around the Postal Service's daily loss of $25 million, prevent the unnecessary wholesale closing of regional mail facilities and local post offices, Sen. Carper Launches Countdown Clock to Critical USPS Deadline  | Mikulski Calls on Maryland GOP Lawmakers to Push for House Passage of Postal Reform Bill | NAPUS: House Timeline Not Linked to End of Postal Closure Moratorium on May 15  |

 

APWU, USPS Settle Dispute on Covering Custodial Absences

The APWU and Postal Service have settled a grievance regarding the proper procedure for covering absences of custodians, Maintenance Craft Director Steve Raymer has announced.  |

 

Senators urge no more postal closings
The Hill - The four original sponsors of Senate postal legislation are urging the Postal Service to extend a moratorium on closing facilities until Congress finishes its work on the issue. But while the Senate has passed its legislation, the House has yet to schedule floor time for its Republican-sponsored measure. The postmaster general added that, for the coming months, his agency was looking more at installing shorter hours at certain local post offices than closing them. Editorial: Thoughtful postal reform  |

Iowa letter carrier assaulted
USPS offering reward for attempted armed robbery of Detroit letter carrier

Ex-Sioux City mail workers adjust to new life

Draft bill would boost TSP contribution for new feds

 

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