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September 01, 2010
AUTOMATED RURAL JOB BIDDING
ALL RURAL CARRIERS CAN REVIEW AVAILABLE JOBS ONLINE
Last week, the Postal Service reached an important milestone in its initiative to reach out to employees using technology. Now, all rural carrier postings, bids and awards are available online.
Previously, not all rural carriers had access to the online bidding process. But now, [...]
CALCULATING BETTER SERVICE
NEW TOOL TO MEASURE SERVICE DELIVERY
How well is USPS doing to meet its service delivery commitments — internally and with its customers? With the new Service Delivery Calculator (SDC), the Postal Service will soon have more accurate and timely answers to this critical question.
SDC is a tool USPS and its customers soon will [...]
PRC to hold August 16 Briefing on $50 Billion Discrepancy Identified In Postal Service Pension Payments
Washington, DC –The Postal Regulatory Commission invites press and interested parties to a briefing on the actuarial report of The Segal Company regarding calculation of U.S. Postal Service pension liability for former Post Office Department employees. Questions will be entertained [...]
IS USPS A BUSINESS?
EMPLOYEES WORK TOGETHER TO DELIVER
USPS employees are at the heart of the Postal Service’s progress over the past decade. Whether in the ranks of management or hard at work in processing facilities, employee cooperation across job lines has led to improvements in workforce efficiency, revenue generation and customer service.
The USPS collaboration with [...]
Washington, DC – The Affordable Mail Alliance today responded to the United States Postal Services’ earning report. The report contends that the USPS will not have the capital to continue opeartions into FY 2011. This claim is false.
As the Postal Service said just a month ago in its rate filing, even after making this year’s [...]
Human Resource Innovation Savings Exceed $150 Million Annually
Web Leveraged to Provide 24/7 Access and Enhance Training
WASHINGTON — Enhancing human resource functions to serve 588,000 career employees supporting a network of 34,000 Post Offices while developing future leaders is no easy task. The Postal Service continues to invest in its employees and cultivate tomorrow’s leaders by [...]
August 3, 2010
U.S. Postal Service Seeks Dismissal of Pricing Protest
Urges Regulator to Decline ‘Invitation to Go Through the Looking Glass’
WASHINGTON — Saying the Affordable Mail Alliance made “manifestly misleading comparisons” and advanced a “strained and fatally flawed interpretation” of existing law, the U.S. Postal Service today asked the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to deny an [...]
United States of America v. Henry Lee Monday
This is a case where postal inspectors planted $40.00 in a letter in an attempt to catch the carrier opening and stealing the cash – the carrier did take the cash. Briefly the case states…
A factual twist in this case is that the incriminating letter was a “test [...]
U.S. Postal Service Names Mailing and Shipping Services President
Paul Vogel to Lead Efforts to Increase Revenue, Create New Products
WASHINGTON — The man who grew the U.S. Postal Service’s international shipping business to annual sales of more than $2 billion was named president of the department most responsible for revenue generation.
Postmaster General John Potter today announced [...]
IT’S ALL YOURS — ePAYROLL
ANOTHER ‘MY HR’ FEATURE ON LITEBLUE
Last week, Link featured some of the “employee apps” available at “My HR” — your HR website on LiteBlue (Link, 7/1). Among the self service apps is ePayroll, available to all employees (except rural delivery employees) who use direct deposit.
The ePayroll app is a secure online [...]
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