USPS Set to Announce Consolidations APWU Continues to Oppose Plan To Slash Service, Jobs, Network

UPDATE: The USPS has provided the APWU with copies of the “stand-up talks” and the text of a video given to employees on Feb. 22. The Postal Service did not provide the APWU with lists of the facilities that fall in the various categories. As the Postal Service prepares to announce which mail processing facilities […]

NALC: Payroll tax extension heads to president’s desk

Feb. 21, 2012 — Legislation to renew a payroll tax holiday and extension of unemployment benefits passed both the Senate and House on Friday, and is now on its way to President Obama’s desk, where he’s expected to sign it. While the NALC strongly supported the extension of the payroll tax holiday and unemployment insurance […]

H.R. 3813 Update: New Hires to Pay More, Current Workers Still Threatened

Current postal and federal employees won’t have to pay more for their retirement benefits in order to fund an extension of the 2 percent payroll-tax holiday passed by the Congress last week, but new government workers will be required to pay 1.5 percent more to fund another portion of the bill, which extends unemployment benefits. […]

PRC Chairwoman Goldway Responds To Sen. Carper On Travel Expenses

Documents from Postal Regulatory Commission Chairwoman Ruth Y. Goldway To Senator Thomas Carper in response to his questions on her travel: The Honorable Thomas R. Carper Chairman Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information,Federal Services and International Security U.S. Senate Washington D.C. 20510 Dear Chairman Carper, Pursuant to your letter of February 8, 2012, please […]

Premium Mail Forwarding Service Debuts on USPS.com

Mail Forwarding Program Made Easier Online WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service has added it’s extremely popular Premium Forwarding Service to it’s suite of online products and services at usps.com. Previously only available at a Post Office, Premium Forwarding Service can now be accessed online using your USPS.com account. With Premium Forwarding Service you […]

Video: Wisconsin Postal workers bowl to raise money for Children Hospitals

Postal employees raised money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals by knocking pins down and with a raffle full of prize baskets they put together with donations. They are hoping to raise $5,000. All proceeds will go to local CMN hospitals and will benefit local children like four-year-old Olivia Vogler, from La Crosse. Olivia was born […]

Gamefly Battles USPS and PRC In Court Over Remedies In Discrimination Case

Documents from the GameFly Court Case: Excerpts from the Respondents Brief:  Petitioner GameFly is a company engaged in the online rental of video games. It distributes its rental games by mailing DVD’s to customers, who then return the DVD’s to GameFly in pre-addressed reply mailers. In 2009, it filed a complaint with the Commission under […]

Postal Workers and Supporters Rally to Save the USPS in Maine

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER)– Postal workers and others are asking to save several smaller post offices and one distribution center in Maine from closing. Many people including United States Representative Michael Michaud rallied near the Bangor Post office. They want the United States Postal Service to cancel plans to close smaller post offices and to […]

Postal Workers Call For OIG Investigation of Delayed Mail In Maryland

Below is a letter sent to the USPS Office of Inspector General surrounding the problems of delayed mail after closing the Fredrick, Maryland Processing and Distribution Facility. It was sent to the Inspector General by two former Frederick workers now in Baltimore and four Baltimore postal workers. To the Inspector General of the United States […]