Editorial: USPS in the Year 2020

The organizational tectonic plate is shifting as we explode deeper into the 21st century. With my wild imagination travel with me at the speed of thought as I get verbally-optical forecasting a future via Novus Postal Ordo Seclorum (New Postal World Order) in the year of hindsight 2020. My mind’s eye uncorrected is aligned with […]

Lawmakers Express Concerns To PMG Over Potential Oregon Post Office Closures

“Letter Urges Postmaster General to Examine How Closures Would Affect Rural Communities” Washington, D.C. – Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), Representative Peter DeFazio (OR-4), Representative Earl Blumenauer (OR-3), and Representative Kurt Schrader (OR-5)  sent a letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe Monday expressing concern over the possibility that as many as 41 […]

USPS Ends National Reassessment Process (NRP) For Injured On Duty Postal Employees

From PostalReporter.com reader: National Reassessment Process is Dead! Finally!  The attached notice is all we’re going to get?  Note that the phrase “adequate work” has replaced NRP’s “necessary work.”  This is consistent with ELM 546.  The MSPB picked up on that. As PostalReporter.com reported several months ago, USPS is referring to NRP as ELM 546. […]

Talking Points For Communities Opposed To Closing Small Rural Post Offices

From the National League Of Postmasters: Facts •  The Postal Service has embarked on a massive drive to close rural post offices, mostly small rural post offices.  More than 3600 are on the chopping block this year and 12,000 additional small post offices stand ready to be closed in the next several years. •  The […]

Postal Worker Exposed To Anthrax Facing Different Dilemma Over Transfer Request

Patrick O’Donnell was one of the postal workers infected  in October 2001 when anthrax showed up at the Hamilton, New Jersey regional distribution center in mail headed for the U.S. Senate.  Now 10 years  later, O’Donnell is facing a different dilemma.

Video: PRC Vice Chairman Mark Acton Talks About Future of the Postal Service

From C-SPAN| Washington Journal | August 6, 2011 – Mark Acton, Postal Regulatory Commission Vice Chairman “Mark Acton talked about how the postal service decides which offices to close, when the closures are expected, how much the postal service is losing in revenue, the possible elimination of Saturday service and what all this means for […]

MSPB Accepting Amicus Briefs in Postal Workers’ National Reassessment Process Cases

Thanks to a PostalReporter.com reader for alerting us to this notice. The Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) has announced an opportunity for interested parties to file amicus briefs (Literally, friend of the court. A person with strong interest in or views on the subject matter of an action, but not a party to the action) […]

Sen. Carper Statement on Most Recent USPS Financial Losses

WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees the U.S. Postal Service, released the following reaction to the announcement that the U.S. Postal Service lost $3.1 billion this quarter: “While today’s announcement that the U.S. Postal Service lost $3.1 billion in the last three months is disappointing, it does […]

Senator Hagan Urges USPS to Seek Feedback from North Carolinians on PO Closures

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Following the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announcement on July 26 that 20 North Carolina Post Offices face potential closure, U.S. Senator Kay R. Hagan (NC) yesterday sent a letter to the Postmaster General urging the USPS to give her constituents in each community a chance to voice their concerns before any final […]