MASON CITY, Iowa – It’s a sight you don’t see every day. U.S. Representative Steve King, is getting an inside look at the Mason City Post Office, and he’s joining in on the route as well. He was invited by Herb Copley, who is a letter carrier and the Vice President of the Iowa State […]
APWU news – 03/31/2015 – APWU President Mark Dimondstein will address a rally in front of the White House on April 2 calling on President Obama to issue an Executive Order requiring corporations that do business with the government to disclose their political spending. “Our members declared at last year’s convention that ‘Money isn’t speech and corporations […]
On March 27, 2015, the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC, issued a 52-page decision in the 20-year-old lawsuit filed by letter carrier David Noble against the NALC and 12 former national officers, including President Emeritus William H. Young and the late President Emeritus Vincent R. Sombrotto. The District Court dismissed the plaintiff’s claim that […]
Hancock County officials and the United States Postal Service are trying to figure out how hundreds of mailed legal notices went missing. Earlier in March, the county court mailed out 75 notices for jury duty for a murder trial. The probation department also mailed out 170 notices to individuals to report for drug and alcohol […]
An inspection of a U.S. Postal Service facility at DFW Airport in November found almost 3,000 pieces of undelivered mail including “personal greeting cards, a passport and loose prescription medication” in containers that were supposed to be empty. More
APWU News – 03/30/2015 – A recent “study” by a Harvard-educated economist asserting the Postal Service has an “unfair competitive advantage” over private-sector delivery companies has garnered a lot of attention in recent days. The “study” by Robert J. Shapiro was the subject of articles in the Washington Post and Fortune, and was the centerpiece of a panel discussion at the well-known Brookings Institution on […]
In the March Edition of Postmaster General Megan Brennan’s “Business Focus,” the PMG discusses how the Postal Pulse survey will help improve USPS workplaces. The Postal Pulse features shorter questions that will allow USPS to better leverage employees’ feedback. The Gallup organization is administering the 2015 survey, which began March 16 and will continue through […]
APWU – 03/27/2015 – The Postal Service’s operating profit totaled $1.4 billion for the first five months of fiscal year 2015, according to a USPS report provided to the Postal Regulatory Commission. This result exceeds the $1.375 billion operating profit for the entire year in fiscal year 2014. As of the end of February, total mail volume is up […]
APWU – 03/27/2015 – Arbitrator Stephen B. Goldberg has sustained the MVS Craft Step 4 dispute in Case # Q10V-4Q-C 14125953, regarding contracting out Postal Vehicle Service work. The MVS Craft initiated the dispute in response to the USPS April 26, 2013, notice to the APWU that management was “considering subcontracting the highway movement of mail in […]
Haysville, Kan. – We’re beginning to get a better idea of the United States Postal Service’s stance and policy when it comes to hiring and employing registered sex offenders. On Thursday, Eyewitness News learned a registered sex offender delivers mail to neighborhoods in Wichita and Haysville. From what we have been able to gather from […]