Press Release from the Direct Marketing Association Inc.: Washington, DC, July 6, 2010 — The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) strongly opposes the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) request for a rate increase. In its presentation today to business mail customers, USPS said that mail volume declined by 36 billion pieces (or 17 percent) between 2007 […]
WASHINGTON, DC -Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security which oversees the Postal Service, released the following statement reacting to the Postal Service’s announcement earlier today that it would be increasing postage costs: “Today’s announcement by the Postal Service underscores the serious […]
Recent audit report from the USPS Office of Inspector General : Most Postal Service bargaining unit employees are represented by one of the four major unions. The national agreements signed by senior-level management and the four union presidents include grievance-arbitration procedures that Postal Service management, bargaining unit employees (also referred to as craft employees), and union […]
Postal Service spokesman David Walton said [Verna] Naylor became the agency’s oldest employee following the June 30 retirement of Chester Reed, a 95-year-old mail handler and forklift operator in San Bernardino, Calif. Naylor had been postmaster in Bentonville [Ohio] since 1968, taking over the job from her husband, who died that year read strory via […]
Complaint requests enterprise-wide remedy, a 1st WASHINGTON, July 6 — The U.S. Department of Labor’s solicitor today filed a complaint against the U.S. Postal Service for electrical work safety violations. The complaint, which asks the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission to order USPS to correct electrical violations at 350 facilities, marks the first time […]
About 90 Percent of Proposed Price Changes Under 6 Percent WASHINGTON — Volume discounts and free additional weight are included in the proposed price changes the U.S. Postal Service filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) today. Price changes for the majority of products and services fall between 4 percent and 6 percent. These products […]
Highlights * First-Class Mail stamps would increase to 46 cents. A new Forever Stamp image will be available in October. * First-Class Mail postcard prices will increase 2 cents to 30 cents. * Periodicals will receive an 8 percent increase. * Recommended increase for catalogs is 5.1 percent. * Standard Mail parcels will increase about […]
* Beginning September 14, 1975, additional ounces were charged a lower rate. Since July 15, 1979, a surcharge has been added for non-standard envelope sizes. HISTORIAN UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE MAY 2009
New coalition of mail customers call on Postal Regulatory Commission to reject rate increases Washington, DC – The Affordable Mail Alliance, an unprecedented coalition of Postal customers, is today calling on the Postal Regulatory Commission to reject the United States Postal Service’s new proposal to increase postal rates by ten times the rate permissible by […]
Letter sent to President Barack Obama, Senators Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and Congressman Elton Gallegly by Guy Nohrenberg, Simi Valley,CA How is it that the US Postal Service Office of Inspector General (USPS OIG) cannot get Robert F. Bernstock prosecuted? The OIG has gathered enough evidence on this Postal Official to send it to the […]