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Archive for ‘August, 2010’

USPS Human Resource Innovation Savings Exceed $150 Million Annually

USPS Human Resource Innovation Savings Exceed $150 Million Annually

Human Resource Innovation Savings Exceed $150 Million Annually
Web Leveraged to Provide 24/7 Access and Enhance Training
WASHINGTON — Enhancing human resource functions to serve 588,000 career employees supporting a network of 34,000 Post Offices while developing future leaders is no easy task. The Postal Service continues to invest in its employees and cultivate tomorrow’s leaders by [...]

USPS Excessing Means

USPS Excessing Means

The following is an editorial by postal employee Ronald Williams, Jr.
Excessing Means…
According to published data on the USPS.com website in the year 2008 more than 40 postal executives received pay-for-performance packages as an annual pay raise ranging from $59 to $73,000 paying out more than 1.2 million dollars on the backs of employees who work [...]

U.S. Postal Service Seeks Dismissal of Pricing Protest

U.S. Postal Service Seeks Dismissal of Pricing Protest

August 3, 2010
U.S. Postal Service Seeks Dismissal of Pricing Protest
Urges Regulator to Decline ‘Invitation to Go Through the Looking Glass’
WASHINGTON — Saying the Affordable Mail Alliance made “manifestly misleading comparisons” and advanced a “strained and fatally flawed interpretation” of existing law, the U.S. Postal Service today asked the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to deny an [...]

Postal Inspectors Plant $40 and Carrier Takes The Bait

Postal Inspectors Plant $40 and Carrier Takes The Bait

United States of America v. Henry Lee Monday
This is a case where postal inspectors planted $40.00 in a letter in an attempt to catch the carrier opening and stealing the cash – the carrier did take the cash. Briefly the case states…
A factual twist in this case is that the incriminating letter was a “test [...]

U.S. Postal Service Names Mailing and Shipping Services President

U.S. Postal Service Names Mailing and Shipping Services President

U.S. Postal Service Names Mailing and Shipping Services President
Paul Vogel to Lead Efforts to Increase Revenue, Create New Products
WASHINGTON — The man who grew the U.S. Postal Service’s international shipping business to annual sales of more than $2 billion was named president of the department most responsible for revenue generation.
Postmaster General John Potter today announced [...]

Former USPS Chief Financial Officer Says Eliminating Saturday Delivery Is Not Necessary

Former USPS Chief Financial Officer Says Eliminating Saturday Delivery Is Not Necessary

The following is excerpts from DR. MICHAEL J. RILEY’s testimony before the PRC on behalf of the NALC. Dr. Riley was CFO of USPS from August 1993 to July 1998.
PURPOSE OF TESTIMONY
The purpose of my testimony is evaluate whether the Postal Service’s proposal to eliminate Saturday delivery is necessary and whether it is consistent with [...]

Your USPS Earnings Statement Online and Much More

Your USPS Earnings Statement Online and Much More

IT’S ALL YOURS — ePAYROLL
ANOTHER ‘MY HR’ FEATURE ON LITEBLUE
Last week, Link featured some of the “employee apps” available at “My HR” — your HR website on LiteBlue (Link, 7/1). Among the self service apps is ePayroll, available to all employees (except rural delivery employees) who use direct deposit.
The ePayroll app is a secure online [...]

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