NAPUS President Supports Removal of Senior Postal Officials

From the National Association of Postamasters of the United States NAPS President Ted Keating wrote a letter to Pat Donahoe, Deputy Postmaster General & COO on February 11, 2009 requesting the immediate removal of Western Area Vice President Sylvester Black and Dakotas District Manager Clem Felchle for inappropriate and inflammatory remarks on Telecoms last week.  […]

PMG Potter to Address Worsening USPS Finances Wednesday

Source: National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS) Legislative and Regulatory Update – January 26, 2009 (NAPS.org)   Rumors have been swirling throughout the Postal Service in recent weeks about big changes coming: significant plant consolidations, area and district staffing reductions, craft work-hour cutbacks, the list goes on.  The Postal Service has remained mum about these […]

Minutes of Meeting Between USPS HQ and Postal Management Associations

Meeting at USPS Headquarters   NAPS/NAPUS & League  October 30, 2008 – 12:30 p.m.  For the Management Associations: Ted Keating, President, NAPS   Dale Goff, President, NAPUS  Charley Mapa, President, League  Louis Atkins, Executive VP, NAPS  Jay Killackey, Secretary/Treasurer NAPS  For the Postal Service Doug Tulino, Vice President, Labor Relations Bill Jones, Manager, Labor Relations, […]

Postmaster General Urges Leaders of Employees Organizations To Work With USPS

 From National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS): Postmaster General, Jack Potter met today with the leadership of the three management associations and craft unions representing all craft employees and EAS employees of the Postal Service. The meeting was scheduled to brief the leadership of the employee organizations on the current situation in the Postal Service […]

NAPS: USPS May Lose $3 Billion By Year’s End

USPS reports nearly $1 Billion lost for August 2008  Accordng to the National Associationof Postal Supervisors (NAPS) Legislative Update Postmaster General Jack Potter, in his address at the NAPS convention last week, reported that the Postal Service will lose more than $2 billion by the approaching end of the USPS fiscal year. “We are struggling,” […]

USPS To Request VER Authorization For Additional Positions

In a letter to Ted Keating, President of the National Association of Postal Supervisors USPS wrote: This is in response to your recent request for consideration to include all additional EAS field  positions as part of a Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) request to Office of Personnel  Management (OPM). As you are aware, we currently have received approval […]

NAPS Challenges USPS Network Plan, Questions Outsourcing

From the National Association of Postal Supervisors Legislative and Regulatory Update The National Association of Postal Supervisors has questioned the Postal Service’s plans for the use of contracting out in realigning its mail processing and distribution network and has encouraged Congress to ask the Postal Service where it’s  headed in its reliance on private contractors to […]