Potter Provides Keynote Address at Secretaries of State Summer Meeting Portland, OR — Mail can play an important role in helping citizens chose their elected officials and the U.S. Postal Service has resources officials need to create Vote by Mail programs. Those were the two main points shared by Postmaster General John E. Potter […]
City Letter Carrier from Washington, DC. According to the Flickr Photo caption: “Daryl our super-friendly postman has been on his route in Columbia Heights since 1996. City Letter Carrier in Indianapolis, Indiana Flickr Photos
Financial Services Appropriations bill directs USPS not to proceed with consolidations until it meets GAO’s recommended criteria for making these decisions (Press Release) Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today announced that he has successfully included a provision in the Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) Appropriations bill that would prevent the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from […]
Tentative Agreement Reached On City Letter Carriers Contract NALC Press Release – The National Association of Letter Carriers reached tentative agreement today with the U.S. Postal Service on a new five-year National Agreement for all 222,000 city delivery letter carriers throughout the nation. The pact, which includes new limits on contracting out of city letter […]
The U.S. Postal Service used a bit of history to make history when it debuted its first infomercial on June 16. Appearing in the infomercial below is the company Dale & Thomas Popcorn, which sells unique popcorn gift baskets and popcorn gift tins.
USPS to study why some APCs not performing well Postal Service is delaying the second stage of installing automated postal centers in lobbies. Spokesman Gerry McKiernan confirmed the delay Wednesday, saying the agency is studying why some of its already installed automated centers did not perform up to expectations. About 2,500 automated postal centers have been […]
EEOC releases annual report 2006 Below is a summary of report on the U.S. Postal Service: Permanent Workforce: Out of 693,677 employees – 60.63% are men and 39.37% women Major occupations 224,009 city carriers – 73.44% men | 26.56% women 213,262 clerks – 44.21% men | 55.79% women 66,582 rural carriers – 46.08% men | 53.92% […]
David Hatch vs OPM – note: Hatch is a Postal Worker The Office of Personnel Management is changing the way it calculates service toward retirement for certain employees on workers’ compensation, agency officials announced last week. According to an OPM benefits administration letter, federal employees on workers’ compensation who hold a full-time appointment but are able […]
The post office in Copper Harbor, MI is a one-room and one man operation. Flickr Photos
Highlights from the eNAPUS Legislative & Political Bulletin This summer, the sultry Washington weather will be punctuated by a handful of congressional hearings that will be of interest to NAPUS Postmasters. The House hearings will be narrowly focused, while the Senate hearings will cover a broad range of postal matters. NAPUS has been invited to testify […]