APWU News Echoing APWU criticisms, a recent audit by the USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concluded that after more than five years of initiatives aimed at streamlining the mail-processing network, the Postal Service has failed to establish criteria for identifying consolidation opportunities. The USPS has made only limited progress in implementing Area Mail […]
The Postal Regulatory Commission referred 46 inquiries to the Postal Service in December. Customers received responses on average within 13 days. Inquiries covered various topics that fell into three main categories: • Delivery services (13) – i.e., the time of delivery, forwarding, and method of delivery. • Customer services (15) – i.e., hours of service, […]
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service have launched a joint year-long initiative to combat workers’ compensation fraud. This effort, building on last year’s prevention and awareness campaign launched by the OIG (Link, 9/14/09), will commit increased investigative resources to identify fraudulent claimants. Workers’ compensation benefits help employees who suffer […]
If There Is No Work For Me, Why Are You Doing It? by Stephen Lysaght, President, APWU East Bay Area Local As has been the case every year, the Local has been very busy processing grievances in 2009. We see management violating the same contractual provisions over and over, but certain disputes have escalated. Grievances […]
Cite huge annual deficit, conflict of interest concerns WASHINGTON – Citing concern about its huge annual deficits, Senators Susan Collins, R-Me., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., today sent a letter to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Inspector General, asking for a review of the service’s procurement policies and regulations. Senator Collins is Ranking Member of the […]
NALC and Organized Labor Succeed In Obtaining Critical Improvements To Congressional Health Reform Bill Rolando Says Legislation Moving Through Congress Provides ‘Significant Progress’ for American Workers The NALC and much of the labor movement, led by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka,have been successful in negotiating an agreement with the Obama administration and congressional leaders to significantly […]
Acceptance of Mail Remains in Place WASHINGTON, Jan. 15- The Postal Service announced today it has placed a temporary hold on all mail destined to the nation of Haiti. The action comes in response to the cancellation of normal flight operations by air cargo contractors into and out of the island nation, where emergency relief […]
The USPS Board of Governors issued a notice in yesterday’s Federal Register changing the previously announced location TIMES AND DATES: 3:30 p.m., Monday, January 11, 2010; and 7:30 a.m., Tuesday, January 12, 2010. PLACE: Newport Beach, California, at the Fairmont Hotel, 4500 MacArthur Boulevard. MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Monday, January 11, at 3:30 p.m. (Closed) […]
Washington, D.C. – Senator Jay Rockefeller has sent a follow-up letter to the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) Western Pennsylvania District Manager, Charles P. McCreadie, voicing his continued opposition to possible consolidation of operations at the Wheeling, West Virginia Post Office into the Pittsburgh Processing and Distribution Center. As part of the consolidation, the post […]
Last of 12 Co-Conspirators to be Sentenced in Scheme Using Phony Driver’s Licenses to Cash Stolen Checks Baltimore, Maryland – U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Leonard Jenkins, age 27, of Baltimore, today to three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud, theft of mail and aggravated identity […]