The postal service is currently considering several changes that will impact Clerk Craft employees and customers. The USPS intends to test a new Retail Network prototype at the L’Enfant Plaza office in Washington, DC. The pilot will include a complete renovation of the unit, with plans to add split counters to make interaction between retail […]
Valpak Sponsors National Association of Letter Carriers’ Food Drive for Seventh Consecutive Year, Helping Combat Nation’s Growing Hunger Problem LARGO, Fla., April 20 — /PRNewswire/ — For the seventh year in a row, Valpak announces its support of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Stamp Out Hunger food drive, the nation’s largest one-day effort […]
APWU News With contract negotiations set to begin later this year, APWU President William Burrus has announced the names of union members who will serve on the Rank and File Bargaining Advisory Committee. In accordance with the APWU Constitution [PDF], each member of the National Executive Board names one person to the committee; a 13th […]
Appellate Court weighs mail carrier’s comments about Goleta,California shooting Connecticut Law Tribune : In January 2006, a woman named Jennifer San Marco shot and killed seven people at a mail sorting plant where she used to work near Santa Barbara, Calif. It goes without saying that the attack was fresh in the minds of U.S. […]
Denying an employee’s request for advance sick leave based solely on the grievant’s low sick leave balance doesn’t make sense. Why else would a person need advanced sick leave? http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/manuals/elm/html/elmc5_003.htm#ep444505 Article 10 – Advance Sick Leave Denial This is a summary of Regular Panel Arbitrator Timothy Buckalew’s decision in case B06T-1B-C-08264489 regarding the Postal […]
Washington, DC (PRWEB) April 19, 2010 — In just a few weeks since it launched, a groundbreaking new activist effort, launched via the Facebook platform, has already swelled to over 10,000 supporters calling for the US Postal Service to issue a stamp honoring Dean Martin. (http://Facebook.com/DeanMartinStamp or http://DeanMartinStamp.com) Launched as a shoestring effort by two brothers, […]
Hallmark today announces the company’s first postage-paid product, Postage-Paid Postcards. The postcards were developed with the US Postal Service and use a new barcode technology that eliminates the need for consumers to apply a stamp. Hallmark chose to offer Postage-Paid Postcards when consumers expressed interest in a product that could be easily written and mailed, […]
Appellant: Reginald B. Day Agency: United States Postal Service Decision Number: 2010 MSPB 63 Docket Number: AT-0752-09-0163-X-1 Issuance Date: April 13, 2010 Appeal Type: Adverse Action by Agency Action Type: Constructive Adverse Action Compliance This case was before the Board pursuant to a recommendation of the administrative judge that the Board grant the appellant’s petition […]
Press Releases from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas : (HOUSTON) – A mail handler for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has been indicted for mail theft, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. Johnny McCoy, 49, of Spring, Texas, has been charged in a one-count indictment with theft of mail […]
This report presents the results of our audit of compensation paid or deferred to officers1 based on the limits established in the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (Postal Act of 2006) and U.S. Postal Service policies and guidelines (Project Number 10BM001FT001). Initially we performed this work in fiscal year (FY) 2008, in response […]