APWU Web News Article 82-2012, July 13, 2012 The National Postal Professional Nurses/American Postal Workers Union met with the Postal Service on July 11 in the opening round of contract negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The current agreement, the result of the Goldberg Interest Arbitration panel, is due to expire on Aug. 10, […]
Press release from the issuing company Responding to media reports that the U.S. House is unlikely to vote on postal reform legislation this summer, Printing Industries of America today warned of the disastrous consequences this delay would pose to the printing and graphic communications industry–and to the overall future viability of the U.S. Postal Service. […]
From C-Span: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a confirmation hearing on the nomination of Stephen Crawford to the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors. Crawford was part of President Obama’s 2008 transition team for the U.S. Postal Service where he made recommendations on policy. Among them he suggested that the Post […]
You should say hello to your letter…while you still can. Because you may soon be saying goodbye. Back in 2006, Congress passed a bill that needlessly drains the Postal Service of billions of dollars each year. Now, some in Congress advocate shutting local post offices and eliminating Saturday and door-to-door delivery. They would rather cut […]
The Postal Service has provided the APWU with an updated list of 1,500 post offices [PDF] where custodial work that had been subcontracted will be returned to the Maintenance Craft, Director Steve Raymer has announced. The return of subcontracted work complies with the 2010-2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement, Item 1.A, of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) […]
Urges immediate action to avert USPS default WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the subcommittee that oversees the U.S. Postal Service, reacted to recent reports that House Leadership will not consider postal reform legislation before its five-week recess beginning in August. The U.S. Postal Service is obligated to pay $5.5 billion to […]
TUCSON – The US Postal Service made special deliveries to one north side neighborhood Wednesday after a mechanical failure caused one of their delivery trucks to go up in flames on Tuesday. It happened in a neighborhood just south of River Road and east and west of Swan Roads at about 11 a.m. David Birch, […]
What’s in a Name USPS is helping C2 Management with its shipping needs. Berryville, VA, Postmaster D’Ann McClellan knew that CIE International — a full-service asset management, investment recovery and recycling company — wanted to build a better brand. Changing the company name to C2 Management helped reflect its mission of cradle-to-cradle, high-tech, sustainable […]
A driver for Mail Contractors of America (MCA) died on July 6, the day after he was run over by his truck at the Des Moines Network Distribution Center. Carl Magee, 46, apparently jumped onto the truck in an attempt to stop it after it began to “roll away,” but fell and was run over. […]
(July 11, 2012) As previously announced, in December 2011, the Postal Service filed a request with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) seeking an Advisory Opinion regarding the Postal Service’s plan to consolidate its processing network and substantially lengthen service standards, including the elimination of overnight delivery for first-class mail. Under the Postal Reorganization Act, the […]