From House Subcommittee: The Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia will hold an oversight hearing entitled “Making Sense of It All: An Examination of USPS’s Station and Branch Optimization Initiative and Delivery Route Adjustments” on Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office […]
According to the US Postal Service Office Of Inspector General: see full report here The work of U.S Postal Service Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) actuarial consultant,Hay Group, determined that the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) assumption that the annual health care cost inflation rate will average 7 percent annually for all future years is […]
The following is a cost estimate report of HR 22 released by Congressional Budget Office as requested by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The pdf version (with chart) can be found here SUMMARY H.R. 22 would authorize the United States Postal Service (USPS) to make payments forretirees’ health insurance premiums from the Postal […]
DPMG SAYS CHANGE IS NEEDED TO MEET THE CHALLENGE Matching workhours to workload and adjusting carrier routes to reduce the need for pivoting are among the topics discussed by DPMG and COO Pat Donahoe in his latest Field Updates video. With mail volumes continuing to decline, Donahoe says now is the time for people […]
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation’s most prominent African American scholars and member of the Postmaster General’s Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee, was arrested last week at his home near Harvard University after trying to force open the locked front door. According to a report by the police department in Cambridge, Mass., Gates […]
According to the Postal Regulatory Commission’s Federal Register notice: This document addresses a recent Postal Service filing seeking Commission action on matters related to a retail network consolidation plan affecting certain postal stations and branches and postal patrons, primarily through consolidation of facilities. It includes information on several related procedural steps, including intervention and a […]
Postmaster General Briefing July 14, 2009 USPS Headquarters On Tuesday, July 14, 2009, Louis Atkins, NAPS Executive Vice President, represented NAPS at a briefing with Postmaster General Jack Potter. Also in attendance were the leaders of all of the craft unions and the other two management associations. Postmaster General Potter briefed the attendees on the […]
APWU Web News Article #079-09, July 16, 2009 The presidents of the four major postal unions have asked the White House to address the “deepening crisis” facing the Postal Service, asserting that “the Obama administration must intervene now to avoid both a political and economic train wreck.” “The recession has had a severe impact on […]
From APWU: In response to a letter from the Postal Service stating that the APWU’s FMLA forms are not equivalent to the Department of Labor’s FMLA forms, the union has written the Postal Service clarifying our position on the use of the forms. Some managers have interpreted the USPS’s comments to mean that the APWU’s […]
According To GAO: Underutilized properties present significant potential risks to federal agencies because they are costly to maintain and could be put to more cost-beneficial uses or sold to generate revenue for the government. Some federal agencies [such as the U.S. Postal Service] have been granted authorities to enter into enhanced use leases (EUL)—typically long-term […]