United Postmasters and Managers of America – Last week, the new Congress began to set the framework under which it will operate for 2017 and plowed the political landscape for President-elect Donald Trump. Much of the focus has been cabinet nominees and repealing the Affordable Care Act. However, UPMA is extremely anxious about emerging efforts to undermine the federal and postal workforce and cut earned benefits, and the remaining challenges of enacting essential postal legislation. Postal governance is also a festering concern, since the Senate failed to confirm Postal Board of Governors last year, resulting in the absence of any senate-confirmed governors.<\/p>\n
In order that UPMA is at forefront in advancing the interests of Postmasters and postal managers, UPMA has set aside Monday, February 27 and Tuesday, February 28 as\u00a0<\/span>UPMA Legislative Advocacy Days<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>on Capitol Hill. Chapter Legislative Chairs and other UPMA activists will be ascending Capitol for an afternoon of intensive legislative training and a full-day of face-to-face communications with their members of Congress and Senators. The Monday afternoon program will begin at 12:45, and the program is presently being developed. The\u00a0<\/span>UPMA Legislative Agenda<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>should be available the first week in February. Inasmuch as UPMA will not be reserving hotel room blocks, it is important that the appropriate chapter officers identify affordable hotels that are either in the vicinity of the Capitol or accessible to public transportation to the Capitol. Accommodations may be identified by use of national hotel websites or, for more affordable lodging, through websites such as\u00a0<\/span>Expedia, Orbitz<\/em>,\u00a0<\/span>Travelocity<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>etc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Posted by Bob Levi on 01\/10\/17 United Postmasters and Managers of America – Last week, the new Congress began to set the framework under which it will operate for 2017 and plowed the political landscape for President-elect Donald Trump. Much of the focus has been cabinet nominees and repealing the Affordable Care Act. However, UPMA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17741,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17739\/revisions\/17741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/upma.jpg\")
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