Month: April 2010

Apr 12th

Postal Employees April 16th Earnings Statements Already Available on Liteblue

Postal employees who utilize direct deposit of their biweekly net-to-bank earnings can access their April 16th earnings statements today on Liteblue rather than waiting until Friday. Earnings statements become available at Liteblue as soon as the employee’s pay record has been processed. The ePayroll earnings statement provides much greater detail about withholdings, benefit deductions,leave balances […]

Apr 12th

Sen. Carper: GAO Report Confirms Major Changes Needed To Save Postal Service

WASHINGTON (April 12, 2010) – Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate subcommittee with oversight authority over the U.S. Postal Service, issued the following statement in response to the Government Accountability Office’s report on the Postal Service’s proposals to reduce costs and streamline operations while protecting universal service:   “I applaud GAO for expediting […]

Apr 12th

PRC Notice:Nationwide Change in Frequency of Postal Delivery

“The Postal Service emphasizes that the proposed changes do not affect retail operations.” The change will not take place before October 1, 2010. Interventions are due April 26, 2010. The Postal Regulatory Commission notice published in the Federal Register : SUMMARY: The Postal Service has requested an advisory opinion from the Commission on a proposed […]

Apr 11th

House Oversight Committee Will Hold Hearing To Examine Financial Viability of the Postal Service

The following is a press release from the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: GAO to release report at hearing on Postal Service business model WASHINGTON – Chairman Edolphus “Ed” Towns (D-NY) today announced that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing on Thursday, April 15, […]

Apr 11th

USPS VER Offer Package Is In The Mail

As reported earlier USPS is offering early out retirement to employees in selected offices. Below is a snippet of the VER offer in the mail or received by some employees: The U.S. Postal Service has received approval from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) under its Voluntary Early Retirement Authority (VERA) to offer Voluntary […]

Apr 9th

Appeals Court Upholds Demotion of Postal Supervisor For Unacceptable Conduct

Mr. (Eligido) Galino worked as a Supervisor, Customer Service, EAS-17 for the United States Postal Service (USPS) in Sacramento, California. On August 12, 2008, an incident occurred between Window Clerk Jeannine Teefey and Mr. Galino, her supervisor. Later that day, Ms. Teefey sought to discuss this incident with Anderson English, a manager. The three individuals […]

Apr 9th

USPS to Test Direct-Mail Product Sampling

Postal-Branded Co-op Effort Designed to Share Marketers’ Costs, Drive Mail Revenue WASHINGTON, April 9 – Eighty-one percent of consumers will buy a product after they receive a free sample, and most prefer to sample products at home, according to the Opinion Research Corp. This is the idea behind the marketing strategy of a samples co-op […]

Apr 9th

Delivering Success – 2010 National Postal Forum Takes Stage in Nashville

What: The Postal Service’s new business model, five day delivery and other hot issues facing the mailing industry along with the experts to address them await attendees at this year’s National Postal Forum. More than 4,000 industry professionals are expected to attend the four-day conference that features more than 130 workshops. John E. Potter, Postmaster […]

Apr 8th

Postal Service Expands Prescription Mail Back With Pilot Program For Vets

Program Diverts Expired, Unused Medicine from Landfills, Water Supply WASHINGTON — Veterans will be able to safely dispose of expired and unused prescriptions and help the environment at the same time under a program offered by the U.S. Postal Service and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This pilot program is limited to an estimated […]

Apr 8th

Early Retirement Rumors: Again, APWU Says: Don’t Go!

Burrus Update Rumors about Voluntary Early Retirement offers are once again circulating throughout the Postal Service, and employees are evaluating the possibilities. Let me state plainly: * There have been no discussions with postal management about offering new monetary incentives as an enticement for retiring. * If incentives are contemplated at some future date, the […]