March 16, 2012 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) today sent a strongly worded letter to Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe expressing their outrage over the “total disregard for a transparent and public process for consideration of the closure and consolidation of the Easton mail processing center to the […]
100 Locals Needed to Participate in Pilot The APWU is developing a new web-based grievance system to improve the efficiency of our grievance procedure, and plans are underway to begin a pilot to test the program in August. The goal of the program is to eliminate the need for paper grievances at the earliest steps […]
New York Postal Clerk meets British cancer patient for the first time: New York, NY – When Audrey Pollard joined the national bone marrow registry in 2003, she didn’t think she would be contacted, or that she would be anyone’s ‘exact’ match. Mark Worrall is glad Pollard was wrong. Worrall, who’s from Birmingham, England, was […]
From the National Association Of Postal Supervisors: March 14, 2012 A new survey by the National Association of Postal Supervisors shows that managers and supervisors in the United States Postal Service believe that Congress is the foremost problem standing in the way of the Postal Service, either because Congress has interfered too much in postal […]
Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) has filed a motion with the Postal Regulatory Commission to make public “all documents and communications related to the United States Postal Service’s market research information file as Library Reference, USPS-LR-N2012-1/NP14 and NP1, filed on March 6, 2012 and December 5th , 2011 with an application for non-public status.” (Mail Processing […]
In response to a motion filed by the APWU, the Postal Service admitted March 9 that it has not considered the combined effect of several of its major proposals, including plans to: Degrade service standards; end overnight delivery for first-class mail and periodicals, and slow mail delivery in general; Consolidate more than 220 mail processing […]
A message posted on postalreporter.com says: cloud’s illusions I know this is off-topic here…but…this morning I checked the liteblue Workforce Connection page for any news of a VER and it WAS listed there. On the left side of the page just above Quick Links (there’s a big blank spot there now) was a section titled […]
This ad, “Walt Gale, ” features a 22-year veteran of the Colorado Springs mail processing plant who speaks about the critical services the Postal Service provides to all Americans. The spot is one of three new television spots that highlight the critical ways America depends on the Postal Service — and the devastating effect closing […]
This ad, “Michael Bazinet, ” tells the story of a small business owner in Bangor, Maine. Bazinet’s company — Creative Digital Imaging — relies on the critical services of the Eastern Maine processing plant. Bazinet speaks about the impact of reduced services, which would result in lost clients and potential layoffs. This ad is one […]
This weekend, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) continued his social media assault on the Postal Service, making a case to the American people that Congress should make the cuts to begin the process of dismantling the USPS. Coming prepared with an arsenal of misinformation, Issa claims that his “postal reform” legislation, HR 2309, would not end […]