Business as usual The Postal Service’s decision not to make two payments to fund retiree health benefits — due Aug. 1 and Sept. 30 — will have no impact on employee pay or operations. In a prepared statement, USPS said it will “continue to deliver the mail, pay our employees and suppliers and meet our […]
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The pending August 1st “default” of the U.S. Postal Service is not primarily the result of a bad market or even bad operations, but of bad legislating by Congress. The only thing that will happen on Wednesday is that the Postal Service will not pay $5.6 billion into a […]
The U.S. Postal Service will not make mandated prefunding retiree health benefit payments to the Treasury of $5.5 billion due Aug. 1, 2012 or the $5.6 billion payment due Sept. 30, absent legislation enacted by Congress. This action will have no material effect on the operations of the Postal Service. We will fully fund our […]
USPS has scheduled a major software upgrade of its national financial system that will impact payments and reporting for a period from Aug. 9 through Aug. 27. The software upgrade is scheduled to occur from the evening of Aug. 9 through Aug. 20. Catch-up processing will be performed from Aug. 20 through Aug. 27. During […]
LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Postal Service paid tribute today — on National Dance Day — to four influential choreographers who forever changed the art of dance in this country and around the world: Isadora Duncan, José Limón, Katherine Dunham and Bob Fosse. The Innovative Choreographers stamps were dedicated at Los Angeles County’s Grand Park, […]
The following letter was submitted to the Postal Regulatory Commission by Mark Jamison, Postmaster of Webster NC, who is retiring today. Jamison has been very outspoken on his views of changes within the Postal Service. Commissioners I am not an intervener in this docket. I understand that these comments cannot become a part of the […]
APWU News Bulletin 18-2012, July 26, 2012 The failure of House Republican leaders to take action to resolve the congressionally-manufactured USPS financial crisis has brought the Postal Service to the brink of default, APWU President Cliff Guffey is warning union members. A $5.5 billion payment is due to the U.S. Treasury on Aug. 1, but […]
USPS has submitted its Sustainability and Energy Scorecard to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Postal Service noted progress in several areas. It said it’s 22.4 percent toward meeting its goal of a 30 percent reduction in facility energy use by fiscal year (FY) 2015. And, its greenhouse gas emissions were 16.1 percent […]
APWU Web News Article 90-2012, July 26, 2012 The APWU and USPS have reached agreement [PDF] on implementation of an arbitration award on retreat rights for Clerk Craft and Motor Vehicle Craft employees, Industrial Relations Director Mike Morris has announced. In an award issued June 29 [PDF], Arbitrator Shyam Das sustained the APWU’s grievance protesting […]
From the Federal Register: SUMMARY: The Postal Service is considering the adoption of a new criterion for eligibility of Bound Printed Matter (BPM) parcels by adding a physical density threshold for individual mailpieces. DATES: Comments on this advance notice are due September 10, 2012. ADDRESSES: Mail or deliver written comments to the manager, Product Classification, […]