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PMG Potter: No More 'Business As Usual' |

EEOC 2009 Annual Report On USPS  |

APWU President William Burrus Announces Retirement  |

USPS Lost $721 Million In August 2009–Over $6 Billion YTD  |
OIG Recommends Outsourcing Custodial Maintenance In Larger Post Offices Nationwide.  |
USPS, Charlotte APWU Reach $1.7 Million Settlement Agreement For Casual Grievances |
USPS Reports Loss Of $865 Million In July 2009  |

Postal Employees Rights During 'Surprise' Investigations By OIG   |Comments (97)

USPS Offers $15,000 Retirement Incentive To APWU-Represented Employees and Mail Handlers - The incentive is for clerks, maintenance, mvs..etc to retire or resign - |
Postal Retiree Not Happy About New Retirement Incentive
The Postal Service’s National Reassessment Process-Limited Duty
NALC Charges USPS With Failure To Provide Mandatory Retirement Counseling For Latest VER Offer
Stopping Saturday Mail Delivery Could Mean Layoffs for USPS
GAO Adds Postal Service’s Financial Condition to “High-Risk” List
PMG Briefs Management Associations, Unions On Current Situation Facing USPS
Postal Worker Fired For Excessive Use Of Military Leave Wins Partial Court Victory
USPS FERS Annuity Estimates Fall Short
USPS Workforce Continues To Decline
Union Battles USPS Over Ergonomic Hazards
Bills Introduced To Provide “Free-Mail-To-Troops” Postage Benefit
USPS: Available For Duty Tool Drives Improvements In Attendance  |  
NAPUS: House GOP Leadership Proposes Federal Retirement Cuts
USPS FERS Annuity Estimates Are Too Low Between MRA and age 62
Postal Workers Lawsuit On Labor Violations Covers 5 States.
National Listing And Costs Of Leased Postal Facilities
APWU: Burrus Calls on Labor Department to Reverse Bush FMLA Rules

The OIG Wants to Know How You Feel about Sick Leave  |

PMG Potter Responds To Inquiry Sent By Lawmaker Regarding DBCS Machines
PRC Annual Report: Postal Execs Compensation

LATEST POSTAL NEWS  

Supreme Court reviewing former Postal Employee's Discrimination case
“When your supervisor grabs you and tells you he’s going to blow your brains out and you get fired, we know that in America that isn’t right,” Wills also claims that USPS fired him based on absences that had been approved by the Family Medical Leave Act.   (11/12) |

USPS bars NIOSH from returning to the Denver P & DC?

Postal employees in Denver requested NIOSH to investigate the flat mail sorting machines in Denver and NIOSH initiated an investigation in April, 2009. Denver FSM 100 flat sorting machine workers have recently had an extremely high rate of injuries. The machines are poorly designed and ergonomically unsafe. There has been severe understaffing of the machines causing stress and overwork.In the summer, NIOSH contacted a lead representative of the workers who had originally asked NIOSH to come to the facility. The NIOSH investigators wanted to return to the Denver facility and bring with them an industrial psychologist who wanted to do a job satisfaction survey of the workers. In September NIOSH informed the workers that the USPS Western Area Safety Manager  is “opting not to participate in the survey that we had suggested.”  (11/12) |

PRC Investigates Suspended Post Offices (PDF)
PRC initiated this public inquiry to develop further information on the status of suspended offices and the Postal Service practice of suspending offices for extended periods without affording the public the rights guaranteed by 39 U.S.C. 404(d). "The Commission is concerned that post office customers throughout the nation do not have access to local post offices and their services due to suspensions. It is evident that several post offices have been suspended for a number of years, and the Postal Service apparently has taken no effective action to reopen or close such offices."  (11/12) |

Congressman Paul Hodes Demands Answers in Postal Service Fraud

Congressman Paul Hodes called on the United States Postal Service to present a plan to fully reimburse postal workers for the wages they have lost as a result of managers manipulating their timecards. Several weeks ago, an investigation uncovered a scheme at five New Hampshire postal stations to manipulate workers’ timecards, and the individuals responsible for these actions have yet to be held accountable. Somersworth NH NALC Rep claims time sheets were altered  (11/10) |

How Would You Make Over the U.S. Postal Service?
Everyone agrees that the U.S. Postal Service could do better. With bankruptcy looming, there's a consensus that big changes need to happen, most involving cutting staff and scaling back services. But what if we could unleash the creative ingenuity of entrepreneurs to improve the post office? We asked Inc. 500 CEOs how they would approach the problem. Here are some of their responses.  (11/10) |
Job Cuts or Wage Cuts
Alan Robinson, President of Direct Communications Group: "...given the difficulty of selling eliminating long-standing contract provisions to their members, postal unions and the Postal Service are likely heading toward an arbitrated contract agreement where an arbitrator will be asked to make the choice between jobs and compensation."  (11/9) |

150 plants and 400,000 Postal Employees

On November 5th, former Deputy Postmaster General Michael Coughlin suggested that the Postal Service in order to survive must have a much smaller footprint with possibly 150 plants and 400,000 employees. There is one major drawback to implementing a 150 plant Postal Service, which is greater than the logistical and management challenge of shrinking the network; the elimination of 200,000 postal jobs at a rate between 20,000 and 40,000 per year in an implementation plan. Shrinking the network at that rate would create a far louder political outcry than even the first round of base closings. Shrinking the network at that rate would also create significant severance or early retirement costs and the Postal Service does not have the cash to pay them.  (11/9) |

APWU President criticizes USPS for lack of diversity in executive staff

In a letter to the Postal Service Board of Governors, APWU President William Burrus wrote he is “deeply troubled” by the lack of diversity in the USPS executive staff, and said, “Although the nation has made significant progress toward equality, it appears that the USPS remains mired in the Dark Ages.” Burrus wrote the letter after receiving a copy of Postal Service’s Official Organizational Chart.  USPS Official Organizational Chart | Burrus Letter (11/7) |

Postal Service eyes options beyond layoffs and buyouts

Employee layoffs are not the only solution to digging the agency out of debt, said Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform's federal workforce subcommittee. "It would be a mistargeting of our problems to look at the backs of our employees." But Lynch expressed disappointment over the agency's consolidation and cost-savings efforts thus far, particularly because recent buyout offers have not generated enough employee interest to reduce the Postal Service workforce. At Hearing on Postal Service future, hope is in short supply  |  statements and streaming video of yesterday's hearing (11/6) |

Calendar/ Postal Holidays:

 

- Open Season FEHBP - Nov 9-Dec 15

 

 2009 Pay Periods and Holidays

What's New/Updates

MMO-109-09-_Influenza Cleaning_Contingency.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

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11/12/09

KY: Paducah postal worker gets 22 years probation on theft charge

Congressman skeptical about cuts in mail delivery

More Americans Are Paying Their Bills Online

Fire at store destroys Maine post office

How Does Labor Law Matter for the USPS?

Mail thief caught on tape in Southwest Las Vegas

Mishawaka, IN man arrested after assaulting mail carrier

Post office preparing for the holiday rush

Crowd wants postal station to stay open

Charlottesville: Postal Service might move mail services

St. Louis: All area post offices will remain open

 

11/11/09

Small-Parcel Shippers to Get USPS Rate Breaks
Fort Payne postman accused of mail theft

 

11/10/09

Truck carrying mail involved in crash that kills 4

Some mail delivery may be delayed by Ida

Police: Teens shot paint balls at letter carrier

Missing mail prompts investigation

Bangor Postmaster Waives Preliminary Hearing

Champaign post office cuts hours
Refurbishing old equipment saves USPS almost $70 million
Driving the Customer Away
Special Delivery

 

11/9/09

OIG: Disappearing Collection Boxes
So, Who Drew the Short Straw?

 

11/8/09

USPS Board Of Governors Set Agenda For Next Meeting

Local post office concerns eased

Health Benefits Open Season

Flexible Spending Accounts 2009 Open Season: November 9 thru December 27

Christmas Pay Procedures for Rural Carriers

 

11/7/09

CSRS vs FERS: Somebody's Got it Made!

35 Elmira Postal Workers receive notice

eNAPUS: Postal Subcommittee Trolls for Data on New Postal Products (PDF)

Great Falls Couple Mad After Post Office Stops Delivering Mail
Postal Service holds public meetings on closing offices in Syracuse

Feds weigh impact of new FERS sick leave benefit

When the post office leaves

 

11/6/09

Mobile post office, itself a stopgap, is now gone
Congressman says Must Explain closing of Philadelphia L&DC
Family of murdered mail truck driver searches for answers

 

11/5/09

Postal Service: Rumors of death exaggerated

Hickory: Postal service sets date for public forum

Albany: Post office gets big backing

How to avoid drowning in Open Season's flood of choices

 

11/4/09

 GAO: USPS Needs To Continue Making Cuts In Its Workforce And Network Costs - USPS has asked Congress to change the restrictions established by PAEA so that it could offer new nonpostal products and services such as banking and insurance. Allowing USPS to compete more broadly with the private sector could lose money, and fair competition issues would need to be considered. Thus, in addition to its revenue-generation initiatives, USPS will need to continue making significant reductions in its workforce and network costs.  House Subcommittee Holds Hearing to Examine Postal Service Revenue-Generation Initiatives - On Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 10:00am the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service, and the District of Columbia will hold a hearing entitled, “More than Stamps: Adapting the Postal Service to a Changing World.” The purpose of the hearing is to examine revenue-generation initiatives recently undertaken by the Postal Service in order to further address the agency’s ongoing financial challenges. |

 

USPS announces 2010 shipping prices

In addition to an overall price increase of 3.3 percent, on average, for Priority Mail, there will be new prices for Express Mail, Global Express Guaranteed, Express Mail International, Priority Mail International, Parcel Select and Parcel Return Service, also effective Jan. 4. Prices for First-Class Mail, Standard Mail, Parcel Post and other mailing services products will not change in 2010, with the cost of a First-Class Mail stamp remaining at 44 cents. Details of the new rates (PDF)  |

 

Burrus Update: Caught Like a Burglar With the Goods in Hand

The union’s challenge to Postmaster General Potter to set the wages of mail-processing employees at an amount that is less than the worksharing discounts major mailers enjoy has generated several flawed responses by mailing industry officials, APWU President William Burrus reports in an Update for union members.  |

 

Who could replace Potter?

It has been made quite clear by the Board of Governors Chairman Carolyn Gallagher that Postmaster General Jack Potter will not be leaving anytime soon. The question is still exists - who could replace Potter?  |

 

Postal worker found drunk in mail truck

The Future of the Postal Sector |  Eight Challenges for a Postal Business Model

FERS Sick Leave Cure: Rumor vs. Reality

Child Support Company Sued By U.S. Postal Service

Pitney Bowes Asks - What’s next for the USPS?
Mail Truck Rollover Kills Driver in Nevada
Are 19 L.A. communities losing their U.S. Post Offices?
Hearings scheduled on Albany NY area post office closings
Congressman seeks to save Green Bay mail processing center from move to Oshkosh
Local family battles post office over shredded death certificate
A perfect fit for postal ads

 

11/3/09

Postal carrier charged with littering after dumping mail

Post office changes routes in recession
Mail theft on the rise in Las Vegas
Consolidation proposed for Kinston mail service
Letter to the Editor: Wrong to close efficient postal center

 

11/2/09

Family: Post office job pressures led to threats
This is a case of a good man driven to obsession by the treatment he received at work. He is really just a cool guy who is very creative," Henry David said. "This difficulty and pain at work has been going on for at least two years. He disintegrated, and the obsession took control. The post office system and management style, he just couldn't shake it off.  |

 

Are There Other Viable Alternatives for 6-Day Delivery Operations?

In these challenging times, reducing the cost of delivery operations — one of the Postal Service’s largest expenses — could save millions. One option the Postal Service is considering is to discontinue Saturday city and rural delivery and collection services  |

 

Most TSP funds slip in October

Dead letter: The world's ailing postal services

Smith Electric Vehicles to partner with AM General on USPS EV

It's 3 p.m.; do you know where your postman is?

 

11/1/09

5 Minutes Or Less

Dealing with lines and the people who are in them is the subject Manager, Customer Service Operations, Alice VanGorder discusses in the latest segment of “Talkin’ Retail.” VanGorder reminds retail associates that the Postal Service wants to limit a customer’s time in line to no more than 5 minutes. “That’s our standard, that’s our goal,” she says, adding there are several ways retail locations can reduce time in line.  |

 

Pricing Volume Mail

Postal Service: Study backs consolidation to Richmond

Burrus: The Challenge: Postal Wages and Discounts

After 37 years, Lee County postal worker cancels last stamp

Ukiah postmaster wrapping up 35-year career

 

 

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