The Postal Service ended its third fiscal quarter (April 1 – June 30) with a net loss of $5.2 billion, compared to a net loss of $3.1 billion for the same period last year. Contributing significantly to the loss was $3.1 billion of expenses for the legislatively mandated prefunding of retiree health care plan. Despite […]
Employees Delivered For the second consecutive quarter, service performance and customer experience measurement (CEM) scores have improved. The Postal Service had its best quarter on record for overnight, 2-day and 3- to 5-day First-Class Mail delivery. And service scores for presorted commercial mail exceeded targets in all three service standards. In a presentation to the […]
August 9, 2012 — Today’s figures reflect the congressional role in the Postal Service’s red ink and the need for Congress to address the damage it has done. The USPS reported that $3.1 billion of the $5.2 billion loss resulted from the 2006 congressional mandate that the Postal Service – alone among all agencies and […]
The Postal Inspection Service’s Mail Fraud Team helped arrest and successfully prosecute the mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme ever to go to trial. R. Allen Stanford, former chairman of the Houston-based Stanford Financial Group, was sentenced to 110 years in prison. The jury also awarded the largest forfeiture judgment ever — $330 million — […]
Pledges support for customer experience improvement plans Treating customers well is key to revenue generation and keeping USPS competitive, Deputy Postmaster General (DPMG) Ron Stroman told Chicago District employees last week. The DPMG also called for tapping into the “reservoir of trust” USPS has earned as the most trusted government agency to establish a culture […]
NALC President Fredric Rolando was a guest, alongside Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL), on the “Laura Ingraham Show” on Monday, August 6, 2012, for a discussion about the real reasons behind the Postal Service’s financial problems. via NALC President Fredric Rolando and Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL), on the “Laura Ingraham Show”
(MOBILE, Ala.) – A student oriented apartment complex near the University of South Alabama finds itself with no mail service from the United States Postal Service. It’s kind of ironic that the complex would go without such a basic service because Campus Quarters has just about anything and everything a student would want. But no […]
WACO (August 4, 2012)—The Waco Fire Department’s HAZMAT team responded Saturday morning after workers discovered a suspicious white powder at a mail-processing center. The powder spilled onto a pallet at the U.S. Postal Service annex at 7200 Imperial Dr. in Waco.
From eNAPUS Legislative & Political Bulletin Although the U.S. Senate was able to approve a consensus measure to provide fiscal relief to the US Postal Service months ago, the House of Representatives dropped the ball and skipped town without considering postal relief legislation. Just as troubling is that the House Leadership seems to be confused […]
APWU Web News Article 95-2012, Aug. 2, 2012 APWU President Cliff Guffey testifies at an arbitration hearing regarding the number of hours postmasters in small offices may work. Arbitrator Shyam Das has closed the record of an arbitration hearing regarding the number of hours postmasters in small offices may work. A Memorandum of Understanding in […]