Postal Regulatory Commission Press Release Dawn A. Tisdale, vice chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), announced today that he will leave the Commission on November 22, 2007. He has advised President George W. Bush that he will not seek renomination. “Three years ago, when I was sworn in as a Commissioner, I promised my […]
Workers at the international delivery company DHL’s new Upper Macungie shipping hub voted against forming a union early this morning. The employees, who help sort packages shipped around the Northeast, voted 217 to 135 against union representation, according to sources with DHL and the American Postal Workers Union, or APWU, which led the union campaign. […]
Health insurance premiums for federal employees and retirees will increase by an average of 2.1 percent next year, the Office of Personnel Management announced this afternoon. Officials said they held down the rate increase, which is substantially lower than what most other workers will be asked to pay in 2008, by dipping into excess financial […]
From the Postal Bulletin dated September 13, 2007 In August 2007, Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) management sent a letter to all participants announcing the implementation of new security enhancements. Starting in October 2007, the TSP will no longer use your Social Security number as your primary identifier on its Web site, www.tsp.gov, or ThriftLine, 877-968-3778. […]
Information from both cases below: A Connecticut federal district court has granted an appeal by the U.S. Postal Service to “amend a declaratory judgment and injunction” issued in April prohibiting contract postal units from posting displays that involve religious proselytizing. “In Cooper v. United States Postal Service the court limited its ruling to the contract […]
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San Luis Obispo County Tribune- A postal employee being investigated for mail theft from a San Luis Obispo post office resigned recently amid criminal allegations, according to a spokesman from the postal service. Investigators from the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General said last week a worker at the main post office at 1655 […]
Contract ratified! Approved by 9-to-1 margin Rank-and-file members of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) overwhelmingly ratified a new five-year National Agreement with the U.S. Postal Service covering city delivery letter carriers throughout the nation, the union announced today. The vote for ratification was 104,346 to 11,895 according to Joseph DeRossi of NALC Branch […]
(Press Release) The 300,000-member National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO) will announce its endorsement for the 2008 presidential election on Wednesday morning, September 12 in a briefing at 11 a.m. EDT at NALC Headquarters in Washington. NALC President William H. Young will be joined by the endorsed candidate at the event. The announcement will follow […]
The U.S. Postal Service will offer a Flight 93 pictorial cancellation to commemorate the heroes of Sept. 11, 2001. 33 passengers and seven crew members died when Flight 93, en route to San Francisco from Newark, NJ was hijacked by four terrorists and crashed near Shanksville.The cancellation will bear the image of the Flight 93 […]