BILLINGS – A melted cab and charred interior is all that remains of a mail truck that caught fire in Billings on Monday. “It hasn’t happened since I’ve been at the postal service, so it’s been at least 15 years,” says Big Sky District Marketing Director, Sally Tuomi. “I know the carrier is a 37+ […]
APWU President Cliff Guffey has sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives urging them to extend a proposed 2 percent “payroll tax holiday” to postal workers and other federal employees who are covered by the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS). Congress is currently considering a 2 percent payroll tax cut for postal […]
The APWU and the Postal Service have agreed to a freeze on excessing while contract negotiations continue, union President Cliff Guffey has announced. “Throughout the bargaining process, the APWU has sought to negotiate a contract that would protect jobs and lessen the pain of excessing for our members. We are pursuing those goals,” he said. […]
The Postal Service recently marked the third anniversary of its first fully-operational Flats Sequencing System (FSS) at the Dulles, VA, Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC) — a milestone in the way the Postal Service sorts flats. Each FSS can sort mail in delivery point sequence (DPS) at a rate of 16,500 pieces an hour, or […]
Letter submitted to USA Today: I would like to dispel a myth about the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) perpetuated with a recent letter in USA TODAY and to explain the value of Saturday delivery (“Before freezing federal pay, try cutting other expenses,” Letters, Dec. 3). Many people believe that letter carriers’ and Postal Service salaries […]
The U.S. Postal Service has announced that all Post Offices are open on Friday, December 24, Christmas Eve and Friday December 31, New Year’s Eve but many will shorten retail lobby hours and close at noon. Regular mail delivery for December 24 and December 31 will be unaffected by the change. Revised hours will be posted at […]
The US Postal Service filed a Form 8-K with the Postal Regulatory Commission listing changes to Executives. According to the filing: On December 8, 2010, the United States Postal Service (the “Postal Service”) announced that Megan Brennan, age 48, has been appointed Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President. This appointment becomes effective December 18,2010. […]
No ‘holiday’ for CSRS employees? NALC President Fredric V. Rolando has written members of the House of Representatives, urging that a proposed 2 percent “payroll tax holiday” be extended to letter carriers and other federal employees still covered under the Civil Service Retirement System. Federal Times reported The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association […]
Here is a letter to the editor of the Washington Post from Senator Tom Carper, (D-Delaware) Postal Service’s problems are many, but there are solutions While I welcome The Post’s interest in the financial crisis facing the U.S. Postal Service, I was disappointed that the Dec. 7 editorial “Failure to deliver” did not mention the […]
It wasn’t a special delivery, but it sure was an unwanted one. A mail carrier from the Whitefish Bay post office is taken off his route and is being investigated for lewd and disturbing behavior while delivering the mail. The mail carrier who delivers to one building on Silver Spring Dr. in Whitefish Bay exchanged […]