Month: September 2011

Sep 15th

USPS Proposal to Revise Service Standards for First-Class Mail, Periodicals and Standard Mail

The Postal Service seeks public comment on a proposal to revise the service standard regulations contained in 39 CFR Part 121. Among other things, the proposal involves eliminating the expectation of overnight service for First-Class Mail and Periodicals, and, for each of these classes, narrowing the two-day delivery range and enlarging the three-day delivery range. […]

Sep 15th

APWU Denounces USPS Plans to Dismantle Mail Processing Network

APWU President Cliff Guffey condemned USPS plans to study 252 mail processing facilities for possible closure, saying widespread closures would “dismantle the mail-processing network.” On Sept. 14, the USPS released a list of offices where studies will take place. “The Postal Service should be urging Congress to address the cause of its problems – not […]

Sep 15th

USPS Network Optimization/Area Mail Processing Studies FAQ

The Postal Service is continually improving efficiencies by making better use of space, staffing,equipment and transportation to process the nation’s mail. Improving efficiencies has become increasingly important, given the significant reduction in the amount of First-Class Mail that enters the postal system. In fact, since 2006, First-Class Mail has declined by 25 percent. During this […]

Sep 15th

Postal Service Faces New Reality

Proposes Comprehensive Changes to Nationwide Infrastructure WASHINGTON — Faced with a massive nationwide infrastructure that is no longer financially sustainable, the U.S. Postal Service today proposed sweeping changes designed to save the organization up to $3 billion a year by cutting its network of processing facilities by over half and adjusting service standards. Proposals under […]

Sep 14th

USPS List Of Mail Processing Facilities For Possible Consolidation

USPS proposes comprehensive network changes- Stand-up talk given to postal employees The following are excerpts from a letter sent to APWU President Cliff Guffey via  Randy Zelznick, 21st Century Postal Worker This letter is an Informational notice of the Postal Service’s Intent to conduct Area Mail Processing (AMP) feasibility studies, at the sites listed on […]

Sep 14th

Ohio Postal Employees picket over process plant closure

Miami Valley post office employees took to the picket line Wednesday afternoon, after learning Dayton’s mail processing plant could soon close in an effort to cut costs. The workers carried signs that read, “SOS. Save our service. Don’t cancel us out”. Jeanette Carlton, President of the Dayton Chapter of the American Postal Workers Union, said […]

Sep 14th

Postal Clerk Craft Reassignment Opportunities

eReassign 21 Day Posting The USPS Bay-Valley District released the following information Clerk Craft Reassignment Opportunities  The U.S. Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union have agreed to provide expanded opportunities for clerk craft employees in installations in which there is clerk craft excessing outside of the installation. Full time clerks in those installations […]

Sep 14th

Customer Told to Mail Packages When More Postal Window Clerks Are Available

A Postal Customer was told not to bring her packages to the post office until after 3:30 p.m. From PostalReporter.com reader: ….a customer at the Swissvale Post Office (prn: Pennsylvania)  videotaped a manager who was totally disrespectful and rude (as the letter carriers there can attest to).  The Manager at the counter is  (redacted by […]