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July 31, 2008
House Passes
FERS Sick Leave Legislation
(NAPUS) The Waxman FERS provision
differs from H.R. 5573, FERS sick leave introduced earlier this
year by Rep. Moran. H.R. 5573 would have provided a lump-sum
payment of 15% of the amount of accumulated sick leave exceeding
500 hours, not to top $10,000. Instead of providing a lump-sum
payout, the Waxman provision would credit unused sick leave
towards the FERS annuity. Specifically, FERS employees who
retiree within three years after enactment would be credited for
75% of unused sick leave, and employees retiring after the three
years would get full credit, similar to CSRS employees. The
credit, however, would not be able to be used to determine
retirement eligibility.
APWU: House Passes FERS Sick-Leave Bill
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NALC: FERS Sick
Leave Reimbursement Moves Forward In Congress
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NAPS: House
Approves FERS Sick Leave and Thrift Savings Reforms|
Ex-Postal Worker
Settles Lawsuit
(California) A 26-year former Postal Worker who claimed he was
fired because he complained about discrimination against
Filipinos has settled his lawsuit for $175,000 and lifetime
retirement benefits. After a career of good workplace
evaluations, he said he was passed over for promotion twice in
2000 in favor of white employees. When he and a Filipina
co-worker took disability leave, Dumaguit said, supervisors
posted their photos at the Richmond office - a display he
compared to "Wanted" posters - to make sure guards kept them
from entering.
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Closing The Boring Post Office?
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Funeral held for slain postal worker
GAO: Information on the Irradiation of Federal Mail (PDF)
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Postal Bulletin 7/31/2008 Issue
Pallet Lessons From the USPS |
Cleveland: Postal Workers Rally In Support of Mail Processing
Facility
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Pipe bomb devices removed from post offices
APWU: Convention Planning Moves Into High Gear
Seniors angry about end of postal truck
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July 30, 2008
Postal Service Wants Limits On Its Universal
Service Obligation
The U.S. Postal Service wants to exempt
its competitive products — like Priority Mail and package services
— from the universal service obligation. Doing so would allow it
to cut back on offerings in sparsely populated areas where business
is thin. The Postal Service argues that those services shouldn’t
be treated differently than those of competitors such as FedEx,
DHL and UPS. An exemption would allow the Postal Service to choose
which competitive products it offers in a given market, and what
standards of service to apply. Products covered by the universal
service obligation — such as first-class mail — must be offered
in a uniform fashion across the country.
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Lacey mail carrier lobbies worldwide for kilt
equality
Until last week, Dean Peterson was just a relatively anonymous 48-year-old
mail carrier. Then he went to Boston and nervously introduced a
resolution to include kilts as an official uniform option for male
Postal Service carriers. And even though his pitch to the NALC convention
failed, Peterson now has gone worldwide.
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FedEx CEO On McCain’s VP Short List
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Breaking a town from the center
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Mail delivered 107 years late
Letter to the Editor: 'Junk mail' is our bag
Oneonta firm is postal service's top shipper
Gas Station Employee Accused Of Stealing $87,000
From USPS Using Voyager Card Numbers
- Investigators said the station
submitted 815 separate charges for payment by the USPS, representing
about 12 percent of the total charges for the Houston district.
Officials said 194 of those transactions were entered manually,
which was 79 percent of all the manually entered transactions in
the USPS Houston district. Many of the transactions were made when
the employee with the corresponding PIN was either on leave or not
on duty, investigators said.
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July 29, 2008
NALC'S President Young: No Decision Yet On
Extending Early Out Offer To Letter Carriers -
"President Young told delegates at the NALC Convention in Boston
last week that “very little has been decided” about the possibility
the Postal Service will extend to city letter carriers its pending
“Voluntary Early Retirement” program for clerks, mail handlers and
their supervisors. Young, who is in close contact with USPS on the
issue, emphasized that if there is an “early out” offer to city
letter carriers, it would be limited and not likely to occur before
2009. Even with the advent of flat sorting equipment and the decline
in volume, he reminded the delegates there are still 145 million
delivery points that need service by carriers. If any substantial
information becomes available, members will be notified promptly,
President Young said. " |
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