USPS focuses on strong start in FY 2011 9/29/2010 With its focus on managing workhours, controlling overtime and improving productivity, the Postal Service continues to realize cost-reductions in mail processing, customer service, delivery and supervisory/administrative areas, according to DPMG and COO Pat Donahoe. Preliminary figures through August show total mail volume continues to decline — […]
Scripted or Encrypted by Ronald Williams, Jr. Postal Employee Businesses spend millions of billions of dollars on products and services. If the delivery system is defective their organization doesn’t have a chance at success. Let’s put some cards on the table and figure out how they could have an impact on our business. With a […]
The NALC responds to recent media attacks In recent days, the nation’s postal workers have been subjected to some misleading attacks in the news media. Last Thursday, for example, a panel of conservative guests on the Fox Business Network’s “Money Rocks” program trotted out the notion that the United States Postal Service is no longer […]
Real Forever Stamp Today there is so much talk and worry about a troubled Postal Service from employees on the workroom floor, and discussed by many in the general public. Pundits say many factors will impact the future of our business, including but not limited to labor crafts in the midst of contract re-negotiations, management […]
ETCHED IN STONE THE STORY BEHIND POSTAL SERVICE’S UNOFFICIAL MOTTO Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. The Postal Service has no official motto. The popular belief that it does is a tribute to America’s postal workers. The words above, thought […]
Confessions of a Former Station Manager – Congressional Response by Guy Nohrenberg Surely your boss would never falsify or engage in fraud or schemes in order to get undeserved raises and bonuses. If they did, there is section of Federal Law called Title 18, which includes criminal penalties such as fines, and imprisonment of up […]
During the National Association of Postmasters (NAPUS) national convention Phil Jones, the NAPUS Legal Defense Plan attorney, told Postmasters… “You cannot expect any privacy on your Facebook page,” he said. “If you put something out there that can be viewed as derogatory toward the USPS, a customer or employee, you are opening yourself up to […]
Postal Service overpaid $6.8B to FERS pension fund NALC Bulletin September 2010 The Civil Service Retirement System is not the only “beneficiary” of a massive Office of Personnel Management miscalculation, a new report shows. A crucial component of the NALC’s campaign to prevent the U.S. Postal Service from cutting Saturday mail delivery service has been […]
The following comes to us via PostCom – The Washington Post recently posted an editorial on the Postal Service regarding the commencement of contract talks between two of the major postal unions and the U.S. Postal Service. The following is a letter to the editor written by Professor Murray Comarow, a long-time student of things […]
APWU Ballots to be Mailed in Election of Union Officers APWU News Bulletin 06-2010, Sept. 10, 2010 Ballots for the 2010 Election of APWU National Officers are being mailed Monday, Sept. 13, to Wednesday, Sept. 15. Every member in good standing as of June 15, 2010, will receive a ballot. Ballots must be received by […]