The Postal Service has given notice to the Postal Regulatory Commission it intends to conduct a test of an experimental product: Gift Cards. This product will provide postal customers with the ability to purchase a card loaded with a specified sum of money, which can be sent as a gift through the mail. The test […]
TIMES AND DATES: 4 p.m., Monday, January 10, 2011; and 9 a.m., Tuesday, January 11, 2011. PLACE: Long Beach, California, at the Renaissance Hotel, 111 East Ocean Boulevard. STATUS: (Closed). MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Monday, January 10, at 4 p.m. (Closed) 1. Financial Matters. 2. Pricing. 3. Strategic Issues. 4. Personnel Matters and Compensation Issues. […]
In a report issued Dec. 23, 2010, the USPS Inspector General’s Office (OIG) echoed what the APWU has been saying for years: Worksharing discounts for large mailers mail are too high. The OIG’s study (Report Number MS-AR-11-001 [PDF]) echoed the results of a March 2010 report by the Postal Regulatory Commission [PDF], which concluded that […]
A 38-year-old U.S. Postal Worker is scheduled to appear in Cook County Court on Feb. 9 after allegedly hitting another postal employee in the face during an argument at work. Police said the woman, who is also a supervisor, was arrested for battery at 6:06 p.m. Dec. 31 at the Tinley Park Post Office, 7230 […]
A Postal Service study recommends closing part of its Petaluma (Csalifofrnia) mail processing center and moving some of the jobs to Oakland, the service said Tuesday. About 34 of the North Bay center’s 360 jobs could be affected, spokesman James Wigdel said. The consolidation would save about $1 million. The service has scheduled a public […]
APWU News APWU President Cliff Guffey has summoned the union’s Rank and File Bargaining Advisory Committee to Washington, DC for an update on contract negotiations, but he was quick to point out that no tentative agreement has been reached and none appears imminent. “I am increasingly frustrated by the lack of progress in contract talks,” […]
IRS another government agency pushing internet over U.S. Postal Service The IRS said that it needs until mid- to late-February to reprogram its processing systems because Congress acted so late this year cleaning up the tax code. The bill, which includes deductions for state and local sales taxes, college tuition and teacher expenses, wasn’t signed […]
Census Bureau Selects FedEx Over USPS In barely a month, the Census Bureau will begin sending states details collected in the 2010 Census, enumerating inhabitants down to the block level. But in a theatrical touch, the data will be delivered overland to the states the day before it’s made public, mostly via Federal Express.”They’ve got […]
Last year’s release of Animal Rescue: Adopt A Shelter Pet stamps appears to have created a strong case of puppy love with customers. The stamps, featuring photographs of five cats and five dogs from animal shelters and rescue groups, earned the “Reader’s Pick from 2010” award for the best stamps of last year as voted […]
From National Public Radio: Across the street from Penn Station, in the heart of midtown Manhattan, is the enormous and imposing Farley Post Office. Designed in 1912 by the famous architecture firm of McKim, Mead and White, the Farley building covers two square city blocks. You can still climb up its marble staircase to mail […]