Congressional Help Still Needed to Relieve Fiscal Strain WASHINGTON — The Postmaster General told a congressional subcommittee Wednesday that despite taking aggressive steps to reduce costs, the U.S. Postal Service will not survive as a self-financing entity without significant changes to current law. Testifying before the Subcommittee on Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service […]
Dennis Ross, a Tea-Party backed candidate for Congress admitted during a Washington Post interview earlier this year that he knows little about the federal workforce. For Republicans on the subcommittee in particular, this meant significant reductions in the USPS workforce. Congressman Dennis Ross, the chairman of the subcommittee, said in his opening remarks to the […]
The Gurdon Post Office in Clark County has six mail carriers. One of them has four legs. She’s a model employee and everyone in town knows who Suzie is. She won’t bark. She just doesn’t pay that much attention [to other dogs]; she just goes on with her postal duties,”
PRC Chairman Ruth Goldway is responding to letter from NAPUS requesting a review of USPS post office closings: Last month, “NAPUS Post Office Preservation Committee Co-Chair, Retired Postmaster Keva Richardson (Thurman, IA) filed a letter with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), which asks the Commission to review USPS plans to close more than 2,000 Post […]
WASHINGTON — On March 1, the U.S. Postal Service temporarily suspended acceptance of international mail service to Libya due to the lack of transportation service to Libya. Additional information and updates regarding acceptance and movement of international mail to Libya are posted online at usps.com/communications/news/serviceupdate
Today, the USPS Office Of Inspector General responded to the OPM Office Of Inspector General’s “A Study of the Risks and Consequences of the USPS OIG’s Proposals to Change USPS’s Funding of Retiree Benefits” OPM’s study concluded: While we understand that the USPS is having financial difficulties, the OPM’s administration of the law has not […]
The Postal Service’s former Vice President, Controller, Vincent H. DeVito, resigned last month to accept a postion in the private sector. Today the Postal Service announced in its Form 8-K filing: Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers The United States Postal Service (the “Postal […]
(Feb. 28, 2011) In support of the Gary Processing and Distribution Center in Gary, Indiana, Congressman Pete Visclosky (D-IN) today sent the following letter to the Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service. Mr. Patrick R. Donahoe Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer United States Postal Service 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW Washington, D.C. 20260-2202 […]