Say it ain’t so, Joe:USPS CFO tries to bamboozle WSJ “The situation now, as you can see, is fairly precarious. When you have roughly $4 billion of cash, and over $100 billion in liabilities, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out we’re in a financial crisis.” —USPS Chief Financial Officer Joseph Corbett, Wall Street Journal online […]
Successful Results for Letter Carriers’ 2014 Annual Food Drive Another Excellent Effort Helps Americans and Communities in Time of Slow Economy, Natural Disasters WASHINGTON, June 17, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The annual food drive of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) collected almost 73 million pounds of food to help restock food banks, pantries and shelters around […]
June 16, 2014—The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker,” Glenn Kessler, has challenged on his blogthe statement by NALC that the Postal Service’s plan to end Saturday would eliminate 80,000 jobs. Sadly, Kessler has made a hash of it. Kessler argues that the NALC’s statement is misleading, because the data our statement relies on is from a 2010 […]
June 14, 2014—Earlier this week, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe recklessly endorsed the House of Representative’ leadership’s outrageous ploy to use massive job and service cuts in the Postal Service to “pay for” a short-term extension of the Highway Trust Fund, which will run out of money in August if Congress fails to raise the gas […]
From NALC – 6.11.2014 House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) issued a memo on June 9 to defend the Cantor-McCarthy gimmick to fund highway spending, which would use the phony savings from a hypothetical future bailout of the Postal Service to fund a temporary extension of the Highway Trust Fund. Rather than “Setting the Record Straight,” […]
June 6, 2014 from Kori Blalock Keller, NALC Director of Legislative & Political Affairs Once again, Congress is dropping the ball on postal reform. Rather than working on legislation that fixes the crisis it created with the 2006 mandate to pre-fund future retiree health benefits, and rather than formulating smart reforms that will allow the […]
Rolando: House GOP plan to aid transportation fund by degrading postal services would damage economy, not achieve goals May 31, 2014—NALC President Fredric Rolando said the proposal by House Republican leaders to temporarily fund highway construction by degrading postal services would damage the economy while failing to achieve desired transportation goals. “This is the latest attempt by […]
May 21, 2014—Statement of Fredric V. Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, following the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s approval of H.R. 4670, the Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014: This irresponsible bill, H.R. 4670, is bad for the American public, bad for businesses, bad for the economy and bad for […]
May 20, 2014 – Statement of Fredric V. Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee mark-up of the Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014: The 275,000 members of the National Association of Letter Carriers, who live and work in every congressional District in America, call […]
April, 8, 2014—Following today’s release of the U.S. Postal Service’s financial statement for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2014, which covers January, February and March, NALC President Fredric Rolando released the following statement: The Postal Service today reported a quarterly operating profit of $261 million, which brings the operating profit for the first half […]