APWU News Postal workers won an important legal victory March 30, when a district court judge upheld the right of the APWU and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) to pursue a lawsuit against the USPS and the USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for “widespread and systematic intrusions” into the medical records […]
The Postal Service first entered into a contract with FedEx to provide air transportation in 2001 for $6.3 billion. On Aug. 2, 2006, the USPS announced that it had ‘truncated the original contract and signed a new seven-year agreement that included an “immediate price reduction in all contract categories.” The revised contract allowed the Postal […]
[NAPUS] President Dale Goff was notified by the Postal Service on March 10, “effective, March 6 exceptions to the freeze on field positions will no longer be approved.” President Dale will be pursuing this issue with Postal Headquarters. The three management organizations met at Postal Headquarters on March 9, 2009 for three separate meetings involving […]
From the USPS Office of Inspector General This report presents the results for our fiscal year (FY) 2008 review of U.S. Postal Service imprudent spending using the SmartPay Purchase Card . Employees have made, and are continuing to make, imprudent and unnecessary purchases during a time of severe economic uncertainty in the Postal Service. While […]
From FedBizOpps: This Request for Proposal outlines the functional and performance requirements for TCP/IP-based video surveillance systems to be installed in a number of United States Postal Service facilities nation-wide. These systems will be managed by the Joint Criminal Investigative System Program Group (CISP) comprised of representatives of the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) […]
MESSAGE from National Association Of Letter Carriers’ President WILLIAM H. YOUNG You can’t pick up a newspaper these days or turn on the news without finding another report of law enforcement abuse. Unauthorized surveillance, illegal searches, suspension of civil liberties, beatings—all the way from wiretaps to water-boarding. Call that the Bad Cop side. Of course, […]
APWU News Burrus Issues Stinging Rebuke To USPS Inspector General Audit ‘Lacks Relevance, Ignores Legislative Mandate’ to Bargain APWU President William Burrus slammed the Office of the Inspector General recently, charging that in a September audit report [PDF] on employee benefit programs the office had inserted itself into the collective bargaining arena. In a Nov. […]
Excerpts from the USPS Office of Inspector General’s Audit Report on Postal Service’s Employee Benefit Programs This report represents the results of the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) self-initiated audit of the Postal Service’s Federal Employees Group Life Insurance (FEGLI and Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) programs (Project Number 07YG008HM000). The purpose […]
USPS Office of Inspector General Audit Report as of June 2007, bargaining employees represented 89 percent of all Postal Service employees. Nonbargaining employees represented the remaining 11 percent. Table 1 also shows that 22 percent of bargaining employees were Function 1 employees (Mail Distribution), 34 percent were Function 2B employees (Delivery Services), and 16 percent […]
On October 16, 2007, GlobalOptions Group, Inc. , a leading provider of domestic and international risk mitigation and management services clarified that, “in the press release dated October 10, 2007, the award for a pilot program is with the United States Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General” and not with the United States Postal Service. […]