Senate Leaders Agree to Begin Voting on S.1789 (21st Century Postal Service Act) Next Week
Postmasters Anxiously Await News on Pay Consultations, Voluntary Early Retirements (VERs) and Rumors
A deafening silence has led to an increase in the level of anxiety for Postmasters as they wait for news on pay consultations, Voluntary Early Retirements (VERs), incentives, and [...]
April 21, 2012 | Posted in
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National League of Postmasters – April 19, 2012
There are some 79 amendments that have been officially noticed for S. 1789 and the Senate is in the process of trying to narrow down those that will simply be accepted by the managers of the bill, those that will have a vote, and those that will have [...]
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NAPUS – April 19, 2012
At at Tele Town Hall Meeting, conducted this afternoon, Senate Assistant Majority Leader Richard Durbin predicted that S. 1789 will reach a final vote next week. However. the Senate needs to whittle down the almost 80 amendments to the legislation, including amendments to the underlying bill, as well as amendments to [...]
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May 12 marks an important milestone ? the 20th anniversary of the annual “Stamp Out Hunger” food drive.
To help make this year’s drive the most successful ever, the external 2012 Stamp Out Hunger website is up and running. The site contains valuable resources, such as press materials, public service announcements, planning timelines, contact sheets and [...]
April 4, 2012 | Posted in
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ORLANDO, FL — In a keynote address to open the National Postal Forum in Orlando, FL, Patrick R. Donahoe, Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. Postal Service, today discussed the transformative power of technology and innovation in the mailing industry.
Speaking at the nation’s largest annual gathering for the mailing industry, Donahoe described [...]
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Not long after the U.S. Postal Service announced last summer that it was considering closing nearly 3,700 post offices across the country, including four in Northern Virginia, Elaine Mittleman made her regular walk to the Pimmit Hills branch, just east of Tysons Corner. There, she learned from one of the longtime postal clerks that her [...]
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President Bob Rapoza welcomed NAPUS Postmasters to the Leadership Conference. He said the speakers may tell them what they want to hear, but make no mistake: Postmasters’ titles and future employment are at stake—and the stakes are much higher than they were 12 months ago.
He said NAPUS must change with the changing times; some of [...]
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President Bob Rapoza opened Friday morning’s Executive Board meeting by saying he thought his first term as national president was tough, but it was nothing compared to the first three months of this year. He thanked board members for coming into town earlier in the week for their strategy session. This session helps board members [...]
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Kick the Can
The numbers do not add up in the proposed constitutional change approved by the executive council to be presented to the 2012 national convention. The proposal increases national dues from $9.05 to $10.05, a $1.00 per member increase per Pay Period. Assuming 160,000 members this amounts to $3.3 million per year in additional [...]
March 19, 2012 | Posted in
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To Whom It May Concern;
Hello, my name is Matt Jarbo, and I represent the documentary Murder by Proxy: How America Went Postal, a film about the Going Postal phenomenon. We feel that this documentary not only speaks to the growing problem of work based shootings, but also to the core belief of the Occupy Movement. [...]
