To Increase Service Levels, Control Costs To help increase service levels, improve USPS flexibility and speed, and meet ever-changing customer needs in the communications marketplace, PMG Pat Donahoe says he plans to streamline postal management, improve customer service, and redesign operations to help control costs. Those plans began to roll out earlier this month with […]
Sen. Carper Reacts to USPS Job Cuts WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management which oversees the U.S. Postal Service, issued the following statement regarding Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe’s plan to eliminate 7,500 administrative, supervisory and postmaster positions: “Postmaster General Donahoe has a daunting task […]
Last month PMG Patrick Donahoe mentioned that early out retirements and RIFs were coming by March 2011. The following is unverified information floating around the internet: from a NAPS AVP: OPM approved United States Postal Service VERA and Retirement Processing for 80,000 eligible Civil Service and Federal Employee Retirement Service employees. With roll out of […]
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management which oversees the U.S. Postal Service, issued the following statement regarding the official swearing in of Patrick R. Donahoe as the 73rd Postmaster General of the United States and the CEO of the U.S. Postal Service: “I’d like to […]
Postal clerks will stop holding up the line with all those questions when you mail something. Some questions will still be needed for security reasons, but clerks no longer have to run through a litany of whether each customer wants a return receipt or insurance or other special services. It was like “Do you want […]
Partnership with eBay, Expanded Forever Stamp Program Announced WASHINGTON — Patrick R. Donahoe today took the oath of office in front of employees and family members to become the 73rd Postmaster General of the United States and the CEO of the U.S. Postal Service. Pledging to return the Postal Service to profitability and continue to […]
PMG Pat Donahoe has announced a new senior management structure representing a flatter, leaner organization with the flexibility to more quickly adapt to coming changes. Donahoe also said: “The Executive Leadership Team and I have worked collaboratively with many others to create a smaller, more efficient structure that will empower senior executives with authority and […]
Layers Eliminated, Officer Ranks Reduced – see new USPS organization chart WASHINGTON — A 16 percent reduction to the officer ranks, realigning revenue-generating business units and closing one Area office are among steps taken today by Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe to create a leaner, faster, smarter U.S. Postal Service. While cost savings will be […]
A formal response to a Congressman’s request for a comment period extension on a proposal to close Oshkosh’s mail processing facility has not been issued because it took more than two weeks for his letter to reach the Postmaster General’s office in the same city. U.S. Rep. Tom Petri’s letter asking Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe […]
Donahoe Thanks Employee For Delivering Service, Trust, Customer Satisfaction Looking ahead, PMG Pat Donahoe says he believes 2011 will become a landmark year that moves the Postal Service in a new direction — one that will help USPS get back to profitability. Thanking employees for their hard work in 2010, Donahoe says that everyone — […]