The Postal Service’s default on a $5.5 billion payment to the U.S. Treasury due Aug. 1 is the result of a congressionally-manufactured financial crisis and could have been avoided, APWU President Cliff Guffey has charged. Although the default won’t have immediate consequences for mail delivery or on employees’ pay, the Postal Service’s precarious financial situation […]
APWU Web News Article 91-2012, July 31, 2012 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the APWU are investigating the death of APWU member Steny Wing Hoi Yu, who died July 27 from injuries sustained in work-related accident at the Detroit NDC on July 23. Although the investigation of the accident is still underway, […]
APWU Web News Article 92-2012, July 31, 2012 The APWU and a retired union member have resolved a lawsuit against the Postal Service and an Accounting Services manager for violations of the Debt Collection Act, Industrial Relations Director Mike Morris has announced. The suit charged that the USPS and the manager routinely violated the rights […]
From the USPS Office Of Inspector General: July 25, 2012 MEMORANDUM FOR: PATRICK R. DONAHOE – POSTMASTER GENERAL David C. Williams – Inspector General This memorandum provides the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) review of U.S. Postal Service liquidity projections as of June 2012 (Project Number 12BD016FI000). Without legislation to eliminate or […]
Business as usual The Postal Service’s decision not to make two payments to fund retiree health benefits — due Aug. 1 and Sept. 30 — will have no impact on employee pay or operations. In a prepared statement, USPS said it will “continue to deliver the mail, pay our employees and suppliers and meet our […]
WASHINGTON, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The pending August 1st “default” of the U.S. Postal Service is not primarily the result of a bad market or even bad operations, but of bad legislating by Congress. The only thing that will happen on Wednesday is that the Postal Service will not pay $5.6 billion into a […]
The U.S. Postal Service will not make mandated prefunding retiree health benefit payments to the Treasury of $5.5 billion due Aug. 1, 2012 or the $5.6 billion payment due Sept. 30, absent legislation enacted by Congress. This action will have no material effect on the operations of the Postal Service. We will fully fund our […]
USPS has scheduled a major software upgrade of its national financial system that will impact payments and reporting for a period from Aug. 9 through Aug. 27. The software upgrade is scheduled to occur from the evening of Aug. 9 through Aug. 20. Catch-up processing will be performed from Aug. 20 through Aug. 27. During […]
LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Postal Service paid tribute today — on National Dance Day — to four influential choreographers who forever changed the art of dance in this country and around the world: Isadora Duncan, José Limón, Katherine Dunham and Bob Fosse. The Innovative Choreographers stamps were dedicated at Los Angeles County’s Grand Park, […]
The following letter was submitted to the Postal Regulatory Commission by Mark Jamison, Postmaster of Webster NC, who is retiring today. Jamison has been very outspoken on his views of changes within the Postal Service. Commissioners I am not an intervener in this docket. I understand that these comments cannot become a part of the […]