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To All Postal Employees:
It’s Time to Start Sending Time Thieves to Jail and Get the Unions Off their Butts
Don’t laugh. Standing up for justice is not a laughing matter. A federal statute regarding time fraud is on the books, and it’s clear. The time has come to see to it that it is not ignored. [...]
Literate by Choice
Just like you are doing right now reading is a thinking process to interpret words to gain meaning about a topic. Writers write to provoke change using their persuasive language to get their point across and convince others of their point of view. The larger the audience the greater the opportunity the writer [...]
Big Bucks Bigger Difference
I like what news correspondent Tom Brokaw said at a past commencement speech, “It’s easy to make a buck, but it is tougher to make a difference.” I say that message needs to go out to all our high paid executives and our national labor leaders. Tom Brokaw continued to say a [...]
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 [...]
It’s all yours - eOPF: My official personnel folder
Where can employees go — anytime, anywhere — to look at their official records?
The Official Personnel Folder (OPF) contains documents, including appointment, compensation, benefits, administrative and payroll records. USPS may use these records to review employee qualifications, status, eligibility, rights and benefits. They’re also used to track length of [...]
July 19, 2010
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
It’s Time to Fight Back
It is time for poor and Middle-class workers to start fighting back. The corporate community has become increasingly prone to take shortcuts on safety, create hostile work environments, undercutting and even stealing wages from gainfully employed workers in the name of grossly obscene profits.
These [...]
From PostCom
Here’s a quote from a USPS executive published by Logistics Management. It’s a beaut.
“We are facing this problem because of a massive drop in mail volume and the fact that the bulk of our costs are fixed by laws, contracts, or regulations. Our operating flexibility is severely limited right now. Our network is expanding [...]
95 year–old has not missed a day of work in 37 years
What:
Chester Reed, who proudly claims to be 95 ½ and is the nation’s oldest U.S. Postal Service employee, is ready to retire and will be turning in his forklift keys at his retirement celebration.
Who:
Mail handler and Honoree Chester Reed
District Manager Dallas Keck
Senior Plant Manager [...]
Opinion from Federal Times
Sick leave is a job benefit, not a privilege
While managers may have the legal right to use sick leave restriction letters ["How to fight sick leave abuse," Ask the Lawyer column, April 19 issue], I could find no guidelines during my career on what constitutes sick leave abuse. There was no usable [...]
Valassis Communications Inc., and its Windsor operation formerly known as Advo, joined the U.S. Postal Service and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children on Thursday to mark the 25th anniversary of its campaign to find missing children.
The “Have You Seen Me?” program distributes photos of missing children through direct-mail advertisements, newspaper inserts, and [...]
Murder by Proxy: How America Went Postal
Mother Teresa to be Honored on U.S. Postage Stamp
Literate By Choice
Driver unharmed after USPS truck sets on fire
Postal Service Ends Third Quarter with $3.5 Billion Loss
Former USPS Chief Financial Officer Says Eliminating Saturday Delivery Is Not Necessary
Feds question IL supremacist over threat