GET ON WITH IT Something doesn’t add up. Congress has introduced legislation authorizing the use of the retirement overpayment as incentives for eligible employees to retire. The postmaster general repeatedly tells everyone who will listen that he plans to reduce the work force through voluntary retirements without replacing the employees, while tens of thousands of eligible […]
USPS is ending its relationship with Chase Bank USA for Postal Employees Platinum Visa Credit Card effective June 29, 2012. The website postalemployeevisa.com is no longer working. The image below is copy of how the website appeared several years ago.
Washington, DC – Today Congressman Adrian Smith (R-NE) released the following statement after he and sixteen Members of Congress sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi regarding the Postal Service targeting rural postal facilities as a means of addressing its massive budget shortfall: “There is no question the Postal Service must […]
Corker, McCain, Coburn Urge Postmaster General to Move Forward with Cost-Saving Changes WASHINGTON – Noting the unlikelihood that Congress will reach an agreement on postal system reforms anytime soon and that the postal service is on track to lose $21 billion annually by 2016 without changes to its business model, U.S. Senators Bob Corker, John […]
Area name change Southwest Area has changed its name to Southern Area. Explaining the change, Southern Area Vice President Jo Ann Feindt notes, “With territory that spans the entire Gulf Coast and other southern states, we felt Southern Area was our most accurate description.” Southern Area will use the acronym “SA.” Employees working in Southern […]
WASHINGTON – The four authors of Senate postal reform legislation Tuesday released a letter they sent to the Postmaster General asking him to delay the closing of post offices and mail processing facilities until reform legislation is signed into law. In a letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, the four Senators asked that he extend […]
Five new Village Post Offices (VPOs) opened for business this month. Two of the new facilities — Sherwood and Manistee, MI — are located in Great Lakes Area. The first VPO in Southwest Area opened in Bigelow, AR. The Eastern Area also has its first VPOs in Lake City, PA, and Shauck, OH. These openings […]
Armed robberies happened in Southest DC and Suitland, Md. in 2011 A postal worker was robbed at gunpoint around 5:30 p.m. Thursday — the same day that the U.S. Postal Inspection Service released surveillance video and police sketches of two separate armed robberies that happened last year. Two men with a gun robbed the man […]
Fox Business: USPS Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe on how to improve the package business. Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
NAPS President Louis Atkins has released a statement commending the efforts of the United States Senate in passing a bi-partisan Postal Reform bill. We believe that there are important and valuable provisions contained in the postal reform legislation approved by the Senate. The legislative process is never perfect, but a bill that largely sustains postal […]