Postal Service Announces Waiving the ASP Requirement for Impacted Employees

Negotiations between NAPS USPS has resulted in Postal Service Headquarters agreeing to eliminate the requirement for ASP training for impacted individuals who are applying for initial level positions in Phase Three.
NAPS’ stated that since USPS halted the ASP program it should not hold impacted employees to the requirement for ASP training as a requirement for [...]

Clarification on Use of APWU FMLA Forms

(07/14/09) In response to a letter from the Postal Service stating that the APWU’s FMLA forms are not equivalent to the Department of Labor’s FMLA forms, the union has written the Postal Service clarifying our position on the use of the forms. Some managers have interpreted the USPS’s comments to mean that the APWU’s FMLA [...]

Donahoe Says FSS Will Improve Delivery

July 15, 2009
Change is coming: FSS improves efficiency

In his latest Field Updates video, DPMG and COO Pat Donahoe discusses the ongoing deployment of flats sequencing system (FSS) equipment and how this technology will revolutionize the way USPS sorts and delivers flat-sized mail.
The Postal Service installed FSS equipment at the Dulles, VA, P&DC more than a [...]

Number of Postal Employees Continues to Decline

June 30, 2009
USPS filed their ON ROLLS AND PAID EMPLOYEE STATISTICS with the PRC recently. The results of this report indicates that the decline in the number of postal employees continues. Due to automation and the decline in volume the clerk craft is losing the greatest number of employees. From June 2008 to June 2009 [...]

NALC: Subcommittee Marks Up HR 22

June 24, 2009
The subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia marked up H.R. 22 today and passed it by a unanimous vote. This legislation will allow the United States Postal Service to pay its share of contributions for annuitants’ health benefits out of the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund.
I [...]

USPS Posts Phase II RIF-avoidance Vacancies

June 17, 2009
Job vacancies for Phase II District Customer Service Offices and mail processing organizational changes opened yesterday and remain available online through July 1.

Employees who received a general RIF notice, who are in an impacted position, and who didn’t get a job during the Phase I postings are encouraged to apply for vacancies for [...]

Ouch! Mail Hurts

‘Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds’
Many postal employees work for years with USPS and never have any harmful physical effects from their postal jobs. However, over the years there have been literally thousands and thousands that have experienced long term [...]

Western Nassau AMP Consolidation Meeting Summary

The Long Island District held an AMP meeting concerning the Western Nassau P&DC on 5/27/09 which is projected to eliminate the outgoing collection mail processing on tour three.
The following are the projected benefits for the USPS to an AMP Consolidation:

2.9 Million annual savings for the Long Island District.
Consolidating tour three will maximize their resources.
Eliminating duplicate [...]

USPS: Keeping it confidential: both during and after employment

Keeping it confidential: both during and after employment
Postal employees are obligated to keep Postal Service information confidential and protect postal intellectual property – during their employment and after leaving the Postal Service.
Maintaining confidentiality is critical. Violating it could have a negative effect on the organization’s profitability and, ultimately, its success.
Confidential information includes new solutions, inventions, [...]

Postal Service Ends Second Quarter with $1.9 Billion Loss

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Postal Service Ends Second Quarter with $1.9 Billion Loss
Year-End Cash Shortfall Possible Despite Aggressive Cost Reductions;
Mail Incentive Programs Introduced to Offset Unprecedented Volume Declines

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service ended its second quarter (Jan 1 – March 31) with a net loss of $1.9 billion, as the economic recession and longer-term financial pressures, such as [...]