John P. Sanchez v. U.S. Postal Service Appeal Type: Restoration to Duty Decision Number: 2010 MSPB 121 Issuance Date: June 25, 2010 The appellant is a non-preference eligible Mail Processing Clerk who sustained a work-related injury in 1992, and thereafter worked in a series of limited duty assignments. In 2009, as part of its National […]
OPM Must Reconsider Calculations The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) released an independent actuarial report [PDF] on June 30 which confirms that the Postal Service was overcharged $50-$55 billion for payments to the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) between 1972 and 2009. The report recommended an “adjustment” of $50-$55 billion in favor of the Postal Service. […]
July 1, 2010 SAN ANTONIO, TX — U.S. Postal Service employees in facilities along the Texas Gulf Coast 783, 784 and 785 ZIP code areas will be working behind the scenes, around-the-clock to process and deliver mail, and to restore postal facilities and equipment damaged by Hurricane Alex. With the exception of the South Padre […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka today expressed their disappointment that the Postal Regulatory Commission is unable to schedule field hearings in Alaska and Hawaii on a Postal Service proposal to reduce mail delivery to five days a week. The Commission has held hearings in seven cities […]
The following is a press release from the office of United States Attorney Timothy M. Morrison, Southern District of Indiana INDIANAPOLIS – Casey D. Armstrong, 35, Lawrenceville, Ill., was sentenced to three years of probation today by U.S. District Judge William T. Lawrence following her guilty plea to misappropriation of Postal funds. This case was […]
The office of Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., issued the following news release: WASHINGTON,DC- Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate’s Federal Financial Management Subcommittee with jurisdiction over the U.S. Postal Service, issued the following statement reacting to a report submitted to Congress by the Postal Regulatory Commission earlier today: “Every once and a while […]