The Postmaster General won the public relations battle on March 2 in regard to five day delivery when he announced proposed changes to the postal service over the coming decade, changes that appeared as the main story on all major news networks that evening. He continues to enjoy the advantage of a well planned orchestrated […]
USPS Presentation on 5-Day Delivery Operations, Reasons, stakeholder and mailer issues at last month’s MTAC meeting Download PDF file on presentation
Press Release from U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (Eighth Congressional District, Missouri) March 3, 2010 WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (MO-08) responded to an announcement that the U.S. Postal Service will seek to drop one day of home delivery in an effort to offset budget shortfalls. Emerson, who represents the mostly-rural Eighth Congressional District […]
APWU News APWU President William Burrus condemned USPS proposals to reduce mail delivery to five days per week, saying, “It would be the beginning of the demise of the Postal Service.” The USPS outlined the five-day delivery plan and other proposals at a conference March 2. “The assertion that the Postal Service must initiate major […]
The company and its principal officers also will be debarred from receiving future government contracts for a three-year period. BAY SHORE, N.Y. — The U.S. Department of Labor will recover more than $1.8 million in back wages for more than 500 employees of MT Transportation & Logistics Services Inc., a trucking company based in Bay […]
U.S. Postal Service Delivers the Holidays WASHINGTON — Neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night will keep the Postal Service from doing what it does best – pick up and deliver holiday mail and packages. Between now and Christmas, the Postal Service will deliver 16.6 billion cards, letters and packages across the […]
Despite cutting 40,000 career employees, getting a $4 billion break on retiree health benefit payments, and taking other cost containment measures, the Postal Service reported a net loss of $3.8 billion for its 2009 fiscal year. The bleak report, issued November 16, showed $1 billion more red ink than a year earlier. The report also […]
All Post Offices Will be Closed on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26 According to USPS: Some post offices will be closed on Wednesday, Nov. 25 and Friday, Nov. 27, and some may curtail hours on those days. But regular mail delivery will continue, according to a news release Also, some of the Post Offices in the […]
The newest addition to the Postal Service’s fleet of hybrid electric delivery vehicles — a 2-ton hybrid electric van — will be tested later this summer in Long Island, NY. The vehicle — a combined effort of Azure Dynamics, Morgan Olson, Boyer Ford Truck Sales and Ford Motor Company — will join 30 other Azure […]
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 […]