Retiree Health Benefits Causing Financial Strain on Employers January 10, 2012 Kansas City, Kan.— It’s no surprise that companies have struggled over the past few years to provide the level of benefit coverage they were offering their employees five years ago. One of the most expensive components of some organizations’ benefits plan is the offering […]
$186 Million Agreement Extends Long-Standing Relationship With the Agency ASHBURN, Va., Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Every day, the United States Postal Service delivers 584 million pieces of mail to more than 150 million addresses and receives more than a million visitors to its website. As a result, the Postal Service needs a communications platform […]
Legislative Update: Saving Our Local Post Offices Ross Urges Postal Service to Explore Other Cost-Cutting Alternatives January 9, 2012 Washington – Last year, the United States Postal Service dramatically increased its attempts to close post offices around the country in order to help save the agency money, primarily those in rural areas. In fact, almost […]
CONGRESSWOMAN EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON SUPPORTS THE POSTAL REGULATORY COMMISSION REPORT ON USPS CLOSURES Washington, DC – (Thursday, January 5, 2012) –Today, Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson acknowledged her support for the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) Report on the Postal Service’s Retail Access Optimization Initiative (RAOI). The report outlined significant miscalculations in the USPS’s methodology for indentifying […]
The Postal Service plans to close a many as 3,600 retail facilities is based on questionable data, Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) recently concluded. In a Dec. 23 advisory opinion [PDF], the PRC challenged the methods with which the Postal Service developed its “Retail Access Optimization Initiative,” charging that the USPS lacked sufficient data for determining […]