27th annual Letter Carriers’ Stamp Out Hunger® Food Drive – Saturday, May 11, 2019
Specific questions regarding the Food Drive should be directed to NALC Director of Community Services at 202-662-2489 Source: NALC
NAPS Says Factfinding Report Validates Their Position That EAS Pay Rates and Pay System Have “Serious Flaws”
April 30, 2019, a factfinding panel commissioned by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service issued its Report and Recommendations in response to NAPS’s challenge to the Postal Service’s pay plan for postal managers and supervisors covering fiscal years 2016-19. Click here for the NAPS Newsbreak. Click here for the Final Factfinding Report.
APWU Contract Update
APWU News – 05/03/2019 – The APWU is continuing to move forward towards interest arbitration. Preparation of hearing presentations, evidence, and witnesses is occurring every day. The craft directors and their assistant directors are working together with the lead negotiator, President Mark Dimondstein, and the negotiation’s chief spokesperson, Industrial Relations Director Vance Zimmerman, on the […]
USPS Truck Hits And Kills 52-Year-Old Father In Brooklyn Crosswalk
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A pedestrian has been struck and killed by a postal truck in Brooklyn Friday evening. Surveillance video captured the moment a U.S. Postal Service truck stopped at a crosswalk, then started to drive just as the man walked in front. Police say 52-year-old Charles McClean was killed at the intersection of […]
Are You An Injured Postal or Federal Employee? If So, Read This Article
Fed Help Medical Centers is a medical practice that helps injured federal workers especially Postal employees who need medical care as a result of job related injuries. Our specialty is federal workers compensation cases for injured federal employees covered by the Department of Labor – Office of Workers Compensation Programs (OWCP). Our Centers are in […]
Bipartisan legislation introduced to repeal USPS pre-funding mandate
NALC – 4/30/19 – On April 28, Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Tom Reed (R-NY), Xochitl Torres Small (D-NM), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced the USPS Fairness Act (H.R. 2382) which would repeal the mandate that USPS “pre-fund” decades’ worth of health benefits for its future retirees, enacted through the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) […]
USPS responds to Toledo Blade editorial on opioids and the STOP Act
To the editor: Postal Service supports anti-fentanyl efforts April 29, 2019 By David Partenheimer – Published in the Toledo Blade Sunday, April 28. Your editorial, “Choke off fentanyl supply,” falsely implies that the U.S. Postal Service is not aggressively working to implement provisions of the STOP Act to keep dangerous drugs from entering the United […]
Hearing on Financial Condition of the Postal Service
? 4/30/19 – The Postal Service’s financial condition has been deteriorating over the past decade for three primary reasons: (1) a decline in first-class mail; (2) expenses increasing at a faster rate than revenues; and (3) requirements put in place by Congress in 2006 to make billions of dollars of payments each year to pre-fund […]
Residents on Franklin Co road says Post Office won’t deliver to them
FRANKLIN Co. , Mo. (KMOV.com) – Residents in Franklin County are voicing concerns after the United States Postal Service (USPS) stopped deliveries due to the road they live on. Tim Bird said he’s lived off Deer View Lane in Lonedell for 15 years and has never had issues with his mail until recently. “It started […]
Former USPS Manager Pleads Guilty To Bribery, Witness Tampering And False Statements To Federal Officials
BOSTON – 4/29/19 – A former United States Postal Service manager pleaded guilty today in federal court in Springfield to charges of bribery, witness tampering and false statements to federal officials. Kenneth LaFlamme, 54, of Fort Myers, Fla., pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with one count each of bribery, witness tampering, and false […]