Brown Urged Postal Services to Take a Second Look at Study on Cincinnati Processing Center February 28, 2012 WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Dalton Ave mail processing and distribution center will remain open. Brown has repeatedly lobbied the USPS to save jobs and maintain service […]
NALC 2o12 FOOD DRIVE NALC branches throughout the country have their sights set this year on another successful Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive effort on Saturday, May 12—the country’s largest single-day drive to help needy families fight hunger in America. The need for food assistance has never been greater. According to the Agriculture Department, in […]
Fredric V. Rolando, President National Association of Letter Carriers I am writing you today to invite you to join in a special event in which the NALC is taking part, sponsored by our brothers and sisters with the AFL-CIO. Every year, the Alabama AFL-CIO conducts a special march to retrace the 1965 civil rights marches […]
Congressman Brings Message to Top, Prepares To Take Legislative Steps Late Monday Congressman Brian Higgins (NY-27) met with United States Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to make the strongest case to keep the United States Postal Service (USPS) mail processing facility in Buffalo open. “From the onset the Postmaster has indicated that the closing list was […]
February 28, 2012 (U.S. SENATE) – Senator Jon Tester is taking the leaders of the U.S. Postal Service to task, demanding that executives be willing to cut their own salaries as they propose cuts to the nation’s mail service. Tester said that if senior postal executives were willing to cut mail delivery standards and close […]
Sen. Brown Demands Answers On USPS Proposal To Close MA Plants Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) wrote Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe today to demand an explanation for the U.S. Postal Service’s proposal to close the processing facilities in Lowell, Shrewsbury, Waltham, and Wareham. In the letter, Senator Brown acknowledges the serious financial […]
According to an article in The Hill, lawmakers across the country are growing increasingly concerned that the cutback of delivery standards and closure of processing facilities proposed by the Postal Service could threaten vote-by-mail. Vote-by-mail is an increasingly popular way for Americans to cast their votes. The Election Assistance Commission estimated that, in the 2010 […]
Under previous contracts, thousands of APWU members were involuntarily excessed outside their craft and installation, sometimes hundreds of miles away. Although the opportunity to be excessed instead of being laid off — as would be the case in most industries — is an important right, excessing often had a devastating impact on employees who had […]
February 23, 2012 WASHINGTON – U. S. Senators Ben Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski (both D-MD) today wrote the Postmaster General strongly opposing the closure of the Cumberland area mail processing and distribution center and moving operations out of state to Johnstown, PA. In their letter to the Postmaster General, the Senators stressed that moving […]
Friday, February 24, 2012 WASHINGTON – In a letter to the postmaster general, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., today asked for additional information about the U.S. Postal Service’s plans for the potential consolidation of mail processing facilities in Gaylord, Iron Mountain, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Lansing and Saginaw beginning this summer. “You have provided an estimate of the […]