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Responding to an “unprecedented number of complaints” from constituents, U.S. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles) this week wrote to Postmaster General John E. Potter for an explanation about why so many mailboxes had been removed in the L.A. area.
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APWU Nurses Contract
Arbitrator Grants Postal Nurses Raises, Job Security
APWU Web News Article #052-09, April 30, 2009
An arbitration panel finalized a five-year contract for postal nurses on April 28 — the first since the National Postal Professional Nurses merged with the APWU. The ruling [PDF] came more than 20 months after the nurses’ independent Collective [...]
Phase 1 RIF avoidance vacancy postings for District Customer Service Offices and mail processing organizational changes opened Tuesday, April 28 and will close May 13.
To avoid missing out on a potential job opportunity, log on to eCareer today, create your profile and begin your search for jobs.
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April 28, 2009
You’ve heard the news that U.S. health officials are investigating a number of cases of swine flu in several areas of the United States, and a Public Health Emergency has been declared by the federal government. All of these U.S. cases have been mild — all of the patients have recovered.
Federal [...]
April 27, 2009
A USPS mail handler has won his case heard before the United States Court of Appeals - Cunningham v. United States Postal Service. The Judge reversed the decision of the M.S.P.B. – Merit Systems Protection Board.
ANTHONY D. CUNNINGHAM, the mail handler, worked at the USPS P&DC in Cleveland, OH. It seems he got into [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has placed on the Senate calendar legislation that would give retirement credit for unused sick leave to postal and federal employees enrolled in the Federal Employees’ Retirement System (FERS). The legislation is part of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (H.R. 1256), which passed the House of [...]
April 23, 2009
Gamefly has filed an official complaint with the PRC against USPS. In part, the complaint states…
A DVD is small and light enough so that, when mailed in a lightweight mailer, the combined mailpiece can qualify as a one-ounce letter. Since the beginning of GameFly’s operations, however, the company has experienced breakage of DVDs [...]
April 24, 2009
U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam has asked the U.S. Postal Service nicely, now he is getting tougher on the semi-governmental corporation’s decision to move part of its local mail processing operation from Lakeland to Tampa.
Putnam confirmed Thursday that he has asked the General Accounting Office, the government’s nonpartisan accounting body, to look into the [...]
The Postal Service’s board of governors is meeting early next month to discuss, among other things, the financial results from the second quarter of 2009. There’s not much optimism about the numbers, considering USPS lost $384 million in the first quarter, which is traditionally the strongest of the year.
Another bad sign: UPS’ earnings report. The [...]
April 23, 2009
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Legislation that is desperately needed to save the Postal Service from a crushing financial crisis continues to garner support in the House of Representatives.
As of April 23, 274 members of Congress have signed on as co-sponsors of H.R. 22 [PDF], which would modify a provision of the 2006 postal “reform” law that drains [...]
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