Senator Urges Postmaster General to Honor Senate Bill’s Provision Hold off on Montana Shutdowns
(Washington, D.C.) – Montana’s senior U.S. Senator Max Baucus blasts the Postmaster General today for plans to shut down the Kalispell area mail processing facility. Baucus is specifically calling out the United States Postal Service for ignoring his provisions in Postal Reform [...]
May 22, 2012 | Posted in
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May 17 2012
WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the subcommittee that oversees the U.S. Postal Service and co-author of the 21st Century Postal Service Act, released the following statement reacting to the Postmaster General’s announcement that the Postal Service would begin closing select mail processing centers in an effort to save approximately [...]
May 17, 2012 | Posted in
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Postal Service Moves Ahead with Modified Network Consolidation Plan
9-Month Implementation; $1.2 Billion in Cost Reductions
May 17, 2012
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service today announced plans to move ahead with a modified plan to consolidate its network of 461 mail processing locations in phases. The first phase of activities will result in up to 140 consolidations [...]
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Senator Carper (Delaware) has launched a new page at his official site that includes tracking and comment regarding losses by USPS. His page states…
As we learned this week, the Postal Service is moving forward with cutting hours at post offices and offering retirement incentives for some postal workers across the country. Rather than forcing the [...]
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The Republican-controlled House of Representatives, on a mostly party-line vote, approved a budget measure Thursday that would require federal employees in both the Civil Service Retirement System and the Federal Employees Retirement System to contribute 5 percent more of salary toward their pensions—in effect, a 5 percent cut in pay phased in for current workers [...]
More than 100 U.S. representatives have signed a letter to Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe [PDF], urging him to extend the moratorium on the closure of post offices and mail processing facilities, and asking him to refrain from cutting hours at rural offices.
“We write to urge you to extend the May 15 moratorium on post [...]
WASHINGTON — The Postal Service ended its second quarter (Jan. 1 – March 31) with a net loss of $3.2 billion, compared to a net loss of $2.2 billion for the same period last year. Despite ongoing management actions that have grown and improved efficiency, the losses will continue until key provisions of the Postal [...]
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May 09 2012
ROCKEFELLER STATEMENT ON NEW POSTAL SERVICE PLAN TO LIMIT HOURS AT ALMOST 500 WV POST OFFICES
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator Jay Rockefeller today issued the following statement on the U.S. Postal Service’s decision to reduce hours at 13,000 post offices nationwide, and almost 500 in West Virginia.
“On its face, this move looks like an [...]
May 9, 2012 | Posted in
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The Postal Service has announced a new Post Office structure plan (POStPlan) that will preserve small rural post offices by reducing the retail hours to match customer use. The plan will impact Postmasters in EAS 16 and below office.
Here’s what it means to impacted Postmasters;
Of the more than 17,000 offices under review, more than 4,500 [...]
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Susan Collins, one of the lead sponsors of bipartisan, comprehensive postal reform legislation, issued the following statement regarding the Postmaster General’s comments today about rural post offices.
Postmaster General Pat Donahoe announced that none of the 3,200 post offices slated for closure last year will be forcibly shuttered. However, about 13,000 post [...]
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