From the NALC Activist Alert: The NALC is on high alert as we await action as early as next week on H.R. 7, The American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 2012. Once again, it looks like the bill will be offset largely on the backs of current and future federal and postal employees. Initial […]
At Sen. Brown’s Urging, USPS Announces that the Dalton Avenue Processing Center in Cincinnati Will Remain Open Brown Urged Postal Services to Take a Second Look at Study on Cincinnati Processing Center February 28, 2012 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Dalton Ave mail processing and […]
According to an article in The Hill, lawmakers across the country are growing increasingly concerned that the cutback of delivery standards and closure of processing facilities proposed by the Postal Service could threaten vote-by-mail. Vote-by-mail is an increasingly popular way for Americans to cast their votes. The Election Assistance Commission estimated that, in the 2010 […]
This Time It’s Me It appears that the Postal Service is determined to continue with plans to consolidate over 200 mail processing facilities and to comply with consultation requirements of the contract they have met with the union. This is bad news as over 35,000 jobs will be eliminated and employees will be required to […]
The Postal Service’s latest five-year plan, which it announced with great fanfare on Feb. 16, is “a warmed-over menu of proposals that are doomed to fail,” said APWU President Cliff Guffey. “The Postal Service cannot cut its way to financial health. The USPS must modernize, improve service, and offer new products in order to succeed,” […]
From the National Association of Postmasters of the United States: On Friday, the House and Senate will take up the Conference Report on HR 3630, legislation to continue the 2% reduction in the Social Security payroll tax through the end of the calendar year. Among the provisions in the bill is a section that provides […]
Feb. 16, 2012 WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees the U.S. Postal Service, released the following reaction to the announcement of the U.S. Postal Service’s most recent business plan: “Today the U.S. Postal Service provided members of Congress with an updated version of its business plan – […]
Postal Regulatory Commission finds process in need of fixes Washington, Feb 16 – Congressman Bill Owens (NY-23) joined over 100 of his colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives in asking Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe to place a moratorium on the USPS’s discontinuance process leading to post office and mail processing facility closures until […]
Current Workers Still in Jeopardy Published reports indicate that the latest deal to extend the 2 percent payroll tax holiday would require only new postal workers and federal employees to pay more for their retirement benefits. The increase would be used to fund another portion of the bill, which extends unemployment benefits. Call Congress! Ask […]
USPS Relying on Flawed Data for Closure Plan Washington, DC – Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) and 110 other U.S. House members today called on Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to institute a moratorium on United States Postal Service (USPS) discontinuance studies, which will determine if more than 3,600 post offices and other retail facilities should be […]