Successful Negotiations Crucial to Postal Service’s Future WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service, faced with the most dramatic mail volume drop in its history, today began contract negotiations with the National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA). The current contract expires at midnight, Nov. 20. Employees represented by the NRLCA primarily deliver mail in rural and […]
Lawmakers are set to tackle several big issues in the coming weeks before packing up and going home for reelection campaigns. The future of the Postal Service: Two things to watch — and neither involves ending Saturday mail delivery or closing post offices — two no-go options in an election year. Full Story: Washington Post – […]
DATES AND TIMES: Tuesday, September 21, 2010, at 10 a.m.; and Wednesday, September 22, 2010, at 8:30 a.m. PLACE: Washington, DC, at U.S. Postal Service Headquarters, 475 L’Enfant Plaza, SW. STATUS: Closed. MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Tuesday, September 21, at 10 a.m. (Closed) 1. Strategic Issues. 2. Pricing. 3. Financial Matters. […]
United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of Texas September 9, 2010 (LAREDO, Texas) – Raul Cavazos, 62, of Edinburgh, Texas, has been arrested as a result of the return of a sealed indictment which charges him with theft of mail matter by a U.S. Postal Service employee, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. […]
Press Release from the United States Attorney Northern District of New York September 10, 2010 Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced today that JAMES IZYK, 49, of Oswego, New York was sentenced in federal court today in Syracuse, N.Y. by U.S. District Court Judge Norman A. Mordue, […]
From the National League of Postmasters September 10, 2010 Draft legislative provisions are floating around the Senate that 1) eliminate the prohibition against closing, for financial reasons only, small rural post offices and 2) gut the statutory Post Office Closing Provisions that are designed to protect rural communities. The League believes that such provisions are […]
Action Envelope, the Leading Online Envelope Company, Becomes Envelopes.com And Grows Its Offerings and Services Lindenhurst, NY September 10, 2010 – The U.S. Postal Service may have delivered 25 billion less pieces of mail this year than the year before, but that doesn’t bother Envelopes.com one bit. At a time when emailing, text messaging, tweeting […]
Ballots for the 2010 Election of APWU National Officers are being mailed Monday, Sept. 13, to Wednesday, Sept. 15. Every member in good standing as of June 15, 2010, will receive a ballot. Ballots must be received by the APWU National Election Committee in the designated post office box in Washington, DC, by 2 p.m. […]
White House Posts USPS Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service’s sustainability goals and plans were posted by the White House today on its new website, whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq. The website presents federal government goals for clean energy, reducing waste and greenhouse gas reduction. The Postal Service’s Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan joins other agency […]
Press Release from the United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that four southern Missouri men and a St. Louis, Mo., man have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a commercial […]