It “may” be incentives with early out retirement Feb. 22-23, 2012 Area Mail Processing and facility consolidation studies completed As we heard in September of last year, the Postal Service is facing difficult decisions in light of its dire financial situation. Mail volume has dropped by more than 43 billion pieces in the past 5 […]
So assuming we are going forward with all these changes, we would begin with plant consolidations and closures sometime after the May 15 moratorium
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 […]
NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) — Another South Florida postal worker has been robbed while on the job. The postal worker was trying to put mail into a set of mailboxes in the area when two suspects approached her from behind. According to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the robbers snatched the victim’s master key, which […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]