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Six-day mail clears major hurdle
NALC – July 16, 2014 The full House of Representatives voted Wednesday to preserve six-day mail delivery appropriations language by passing H.R. 5016, the Fiscal Year 2015 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) appropriations bill. The base bill was introduced last month without the six-day provision, which has been part of appropriations bills for decades. […]
Customer and employee rights when USPS solicits customers to change the mode of mail delivery
July 15, 2014—NALC is aware of an effort by the Postal Service in different parts of the country to convince customers to agree to change their mode of mail delivery to cluster box or centralized delivery. This page contains the latest information detailing the rights of both postal customers and letter carriers, and we […]
NALC: Fact-checking the PMG
NALC – July 14, 2014 Fact-checking the PMG A so-called “white paper” from L’Enfant Plaza, sent to every postal facility, seeks to bamboozle postal employees into supporting the postmaster general’s disastrous “recovery plan” as well as legislation that would empower Postmaster General Pat Donahoe to execute it. The document is chock-full of red herrings, straw-man […]
The Truth About Saturday Delivery
Delivering for America – Monday, July 14, 2014 Some in Congress believe that cutting Saturday mail delivery will help strengthen our nation’s Postal Service. But that’s just not true. Instead of cuts, we should focus on building the Postal Service’s unmatched network. Saturday services are an essential part of that network. It’s time the American people […]
Rolando: How low will he, the PMG, go?
From the July 2014 NALC Postal Record A few years ago, Postmaster General Pat Donahoe did something that really shocked me. He testified before the Oversight and Government Reform Committee of the House of Representatives and said that he supported “practically everything” in a truly putrid piece of legislation introduced by Rep. Darrell Issa, the […]
NALC: Distribution of campaign literature by e-mail
July 2, 2014—NALC has arranged for its long-time election contractor, Peake-DeLancey, to handle requests by candidates for national office in the 2014 NALC election to distribute campaign literature by e-mail. Federal law requires national unions to comply with all reasonable requests by any bona fide candidate for union office to distribute, by mail or otherwise, […]
NALC: 6-day language makes it into House appropriations bill
June 25, 2014—Language mandating six-day mail delivery—intentionally left out of the draft version of the House Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government’s Fiscal Year 2015 spending bill—was successfully reinserted into the measure that was approved on Wednesday by a voice vote of the full House Appropriations committee. “This is a clear victory for letter […]
Six-day mail in Senate appropriations bill; still work to do in the House
NALC – June 24, 2014 The Senate Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government has approved a Fiscal Year 2015 appropriations bill that includes, as it has for decades, the language mandating that the Postal Service deliver the mail six days a week. “We applaud this news, and we strongly encourage the senators on the […]
NALC: Saturday Delivery Is On The Chopping Block
Saturday delivery is on the chopping block this week in Congress, and we need you to take action today to save it and the future of the Postal Service, which must provide service six days a week to prevent competitors from entering our business to replace us. Last week, the House Financial Services and General […]