(07/14/09) In response to a letter from the Postal Service stating that the APWU’s FMLA forms are not equivalent to the Department of Labor’s FMLA forms, the union has written the Postal Service clarifying our position on the use of the forms. Some managers have interpreted the USPS’s comments to mean that the APWU’s FMLA […]
July 15, 2009 Change is coming: FSS improves efficiency In his latest Field Updates video, DPMG and COO Pat Donahoe discusses the ongoing deployment of flats sequencing system (FSS) equipment and how this technology will revolutionize the way USPS sorts and delivers flat-sized mail. The Postal Service installed FSS equipment at the Dulles, VA, P&DC […]
PRC Press Release – Washington, DC July 10, 2009 The Postal Regulatory Commission today issued Order No: 244 establishing Docket N2009-1 to provide a public hearing and issue an advisory opinion on the national service implications of a U.S. Postal Service “Station and Branch Optimization and Consolidation Initiative.” The Postal Service has advised it will […]
July 8, 2009 USPS has announced a potential reduction in force (RIF) and a new voluntary early retirement authority for Sales employees. To meet current and future business needs, USPS has realigned its Sales organization. The new structure corresponds more closely with the Postal Service’s operational areas and allocates resources to take advantage of business […]
July 2, 2009 by Rick Owens – www.PostalEmployeeNetwork.com For those who do not work at USPS it may appear that the Postal Service is having a going out of business sale instead of a summer sale. The closure of branch after branch and office after office, and the consolidation of distribution centers across the nation […]
July 1, 2009 Today the USPS ZIP Code turns 46 years old. However, the cartoon figure, Mr. ZIP, originated serveral years earlier. Mr. ZIP, was adopted by USPS as the trademark for the Zoning Improvement Plan or ZIP Code, which began on July 1, 1963. Mr. ZIP was designed by Harold Wilcox, son of a letter […]
June 30, 2009 USPS filed their ON ROLLS AND PAID EMPLOYEE STATISTICS with the PRC recently. The results of this report indicates that the decline in the number of postal employees continues. Due to automation and the decline in volume the clerk craft is losing the greatest number of employees. From June 2008 to June […]
June 28, 2009 The Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) conducts both civil and criminal investigations of alleged violations of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) and related laws. These investigations by OLMS District Offices involve issues such as embezzlements of union funds, union officer elections, the filing of required reports by unions and others […]
June 25, 2009 Sharon Young, a Sales and Service Associate at the Norristown Post Office, has been issued a Letter of Suspension following an incident with a customer who complained that Ms. Young did not assist her with filling out more than 100 customs forms for parcels the customer was mailing to Japan. All Sales […]
In response to the financial crisis facing the Postal Service due to the severe national recession and the impact of electronic substitution, postal management has launched an internal study on the feasibility of eliminating Saturday delivery across the United States NALC received a letter dated June 11 from the Postal Service requesting the union’s input […]