Month: September 2011

Sep 7th

Senator Jon Tester asks Montanans for input as Congress examines challenges of USPS

Tester plans to share feedback as Congress considers future of mail service. Tester also recently launched tester.senate.gov/postal, a new website for Montanans to comment about proposed post office closures. Tuesday, September 6, 2011 (U.S. SENATE) – U.S. Senator Jon Tester released the following statement as the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs today […]

Sep 7th

Senate Will Weigh Proposals To Save USPS After White House Submits Its Own

TWO SENATE BILLS, USPS PROPOSALS CONFLICT WASHINGTON – Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Federal Financial Management Subcommittee Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., Tuesday praised Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe for offering a bold plan that attempts to stave off the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) imminent bankruptcy. But […]

Sep 7th

APWU President Tells Senate Panel: Congress Must Save Postal Service

USPS Plan Would Hurt Service, Workers, Communities Testifying before a Senate panel on Sept. 6, APWU President Cliff Guffey urged Congress to take action to prevent a collapse of the Postal Service, and he denounced USPS proposals to abrogate the union’s Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Sep 7th

USPS on the Brink of Default PMG Tells Senate Committee; Urgent Legislative Action Needed

WASHINGTON — Without enactment of legislation by the end of this month, the Postal Service faces default, as funds will be insufficient to make a congressionally mandated $5.5 billion payment to pre-fund retiree health benefits, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe told a Senate committee today. “The Postal Service is in a crisis today because it operates […]

Sep 7th

League of Postmasters Calls on Congress to Stop Closing Post Offices

and to Let USPS Pension Overpayments Prefund Retiree Health Benefits USPS Pension and Retiree Health Benefits Payments Should be Realigned; USPS Should Not Withdraw from the Federal Retiree Health Benefit Plan. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 6, 2011— “Enough is enough. Congress must act. The time to act is now and the action to take is to […]

Sep 4th

NAPUS: Senate Committee Chairman Lieberman to Conduct Emergency Postal Hearing

From National Association of Postmasters of the United States (NAPUS)  e-newsletter On Tuesday afternoon, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) intends to conduct a hearing on legislative proposals that seek to avert a “Postal shutdown.” This is the first time in recent memory that the full Committee, rather than its […]

Sep 3rd

NAPUS: Postmaster Pay Talks Continue; PSE Staffing Issues On Agenda

September 2nd, 2011 Representative from NAPUS and the League met with USPS Headquarters officials for the third time yesterday to discuss pay, benefits, ELM changes, and leave for Postmasters. The next meeting is scheduled for the end of this month and future meetings are planned for early October.  Details cannot be provided until the pay […]