NAPUS has received complaints from members of the Post Office Preservation Committee that some postal officials are in a hurry- up mode to schedule community meetings to discuss possible post office closings. In some areas, customers from more than one community are told to travel to another location where several community meetings are being held […]
Commission Public Meeting to be held Wednesday, September 14, 2011, at 11 a.m. Commission Hearing Room, 901 New York Avenue NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20268–0001 Portions Open to the Public Synopsis of the legislative review completed pursuant to section 701 of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA). Review of postal-related Congressional activity. Report […]
APWU President Cliff Guffey will testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Sept. 6 about the financial crisis facing the Postal Service and what Congress must do to address it. “I will tell members of the Senate Committee that the future of the Postal Service is in their hands. They […]
USPS is completing deployment of instant messaging (IM) and presence (P) to ACE email users. IM provides brief real-time text conversations between individuals or groups. P will display user status as: Available Busy Do not disturb Away Be right back As part of the USPS Unified Communications and Collaborations initiative, the goal of IM/P is […]
“WE AREN’T GOING AWAY” DPMG RON STROMAN REASSURES USPS STAKEHOLDERS With potential USPS insolvency in the news, approximately 200 Southern California mailing industry leaders gathered in Anaheim to hear DPMG Ron Stroman discuss the state of the Postal Service. Stroman expressed optimism while emphasizing the need for change: “The decisions we make today will determine […]
The ninth and final cost-of-living adjustment as negotiated under the 2006-2011 National Agreement is $978 annually, based on the July Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) announced Aug. 18 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is effective in Pay Period 20, which begins Sept. 10 […]
NALC President Rolando sent the following letter to PMG Donahoe August 15, 2011 Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe United States Postal Service 475 L’Enfant Plaza, S.W. Washington, DC 20260-0010 Dear Postmaster General Donahoe, I write to state in the strongest possible terms our outrage at DSPS lobbying the Congress to break our labor contract, and to […]
USPS: No Excessing for Failure to Bid on NTFT Jobs APWU Web News Article 095-2011, Aug. 26, 2011 The USPS has instructed Area Labor Relations Managers that employees may not be excessed because they fail to bid on Non-Traditional Full-Time (NTFT) duty assignments. The notice [PDF] was sent in response to union allegations that management […]
King, Senators Ask USPS to Delay Consolidation of Sioux City Mail Processing Facility Washington, D.C.- Congressman Steve King (R-IA), Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) announce that they have formally requested that the United States Postal Service delay the implementation of its plan to consolidate mail processing operations in Sioux City with […]
TAKING ACTION NOW PMG PROVIDES MORE DETAIL ON PLAN FOR SOLVENCY In the second segment of his video series on the “State of Our Business,” PMG Pat Donahoe offers additional details on the Postal Service’s serious financial issues. He also discusses operational changes and other steps the Postal Service and Congress must take to address […]