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 […]
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 […]
Postal Service Ends Third Quarter with $3.5 Billion Loss Cash Shortfall Likely in 2011; Customer Service Scores Remain High WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service ended the third quarter of fiscal year 2010 (April 1 – June 30) with a net loss of $3.5 billion, compared with a net loss of $2.4 billion for the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
The following is excerpts from DR. MICHAEL J. RILEY’s testimony before the PRC on behalf of the NALC. Dr. Riley was CFO of USPS from August 1993 to July 1998. PURPOSE OF TESTIMONY The purpose of my testimony is evaluate whether the Postal Service’s proposal to eliminate Saturday delivery is necessary and whether it is […]
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 […]