According the DC Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the USPS’s request to expedite rate denial request case against Postal Regulatory Commission. The court ordered the following: Upon consideration of petitioner’s unopposed motion to expedite consideration and for an abbreviated briefing schedule, it is ORDERED that the following briefing schedule will apply in this case: […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service is getting into the holiday spirit. Today, post offices from Anchorage to Ashtabula and Honolulu to Houston are showing signs of the season. Building on the wildly successful advertising campaign, A Simpler Way to Ship, touting flat-rate shipping, the Postal Service offers its customers A Simpler Way to Holiday […]
MEMPHIS, TN – Two and a half weeks after a double murder, it’s quiet again in Henning, Tennessee. But, how is the town coping, and what is its mood? That’s what Eyewitness News went to find out.
The Voice of the Employee (VOE) survey began in 1999. The survey has had the same focus of gathering employee opinion about the work environment over the years. As the mailing industry changed and we were faced with new challenges, it became necessary to refocus the VOE survey measurement. We needed questions to reflect issues […]
Press Release from Office Of the United States Attorney District of New Jersey NEWARK, N.J. – The former Secretary-Treasurer of a New Jersey Postal Workers union pleaded guilty today to conspiring to embezzle funds from the union’s operating account, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. John McGovern, 54, of Hawthorne, N.J., entered his guilty plea […]
Amazon.com recently disclosed that it had settled a mysterious investigation by the U.S. Postal Service for a “nominal amount.” Amazon never revealed what the investigation was about, and didn’t specify the terms of the settlement. But now the details are coming to light. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request by TechFlash, the […]
APWU President William Burrus has again refuted claims about the Postal Service’s financial condition, rebutting a column that appeared recently in an Akron (OH) Beacon Journal column, “Post Office Bleeds Dollars.” In a Nov. 1 letter [PDF], Burrus wrote that the commentary written by columnist Kevin Hassett is, “quite simply, unrelated to reality.” “Mr. Hassett […]
It’s Open Season — the time of year when employees can sign up for benefit programs, change enrollments, or cancel their participation. Open Season for three benefits programs — Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB), Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), and the Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program (FEDVIP) — begins Monday, Nov. 8. FEHB and […]
Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry pledged Wednesday to increase new retirees’ interim annuity payments — even if it means some will temporarily be overpaid. Currently, more than 38,000 recent retirees are receiving interim annuities — which are sometimes as low as half of what they are owed — for months while overwhelmed OPM […]
As long as the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd, sometimes known as the Prince of Pork, ruled the Senate Finance Committee, the 11 mail-processing centers in his home state were safe. Though West Virginia had more such centers per capita than nearly any other state, the Postal Service’s efforts to consolidate its processing network somehow […]