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Showing posts with label five-day delivery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label five-day delivery. Show all posts
Monday, June 9, 2014

Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe supports agenda to fund roads for cut to five-day delivery

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USPS supports five-day delivery swap with highway fund boost "...a budget accounting trick that would finance road projects by prevent...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Vote Delayed on Bill That Would Alter Postal Employee Health Care Plan and Other Major Postal Changes

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Vote Delayed on Reform Effort "...provisions in the 2013 Postal Reform Act that would restructure its health care plan, shift to a six...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Congress protects the people by preventing the Postal Service from reducing service to five-day delivery

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Postal Service withdraws plan to end Saturday mail delivery "...The postal service’s board of governors made the decision Tuesday, acc...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

Postmaster general’s actions have damaged his reputation with congressional leaders

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Postmaster general ‘damaged his reputation’ with five-day mail-delivery plan, Reid says "...“Given the importance of the post office t...
Friday, February 8, 2013

USPS lacks the statutory authority to reduce mail service to 5-days

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USPS fails to deliver real plan "...“Logic dictates that when USPS and the Administration repeatedly request that Congress explicitly ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Destruction of the Postal Service continues with flawed bill

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Senate passes postal bill that would end Saturday mail "...Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat, offered an amendment that would have exten...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

USPS Statement on White House budget

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PMG thanks President for recognizing need for reform "...allowing USPS to transition to five-day per week delivery starting in 2013......
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Postal workers picket to preserve Saturday service

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"...While it might seem logical that the unions’ opposition to five-day-delivery is motivated by job preservation, Smith said most con...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

Connolly: U.S. Postal Service in a death spiral

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"..."instead of reducing service from six to five days a week, the Postal Service ought to be looking at a 24-hour model like the...
Monday, April 19, 2010

Rationale for Five-Day Delivery Shattered at House Hearing

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"...In response to questions by Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Postmaster General John E. Potter admitted that predictions that the Postal...
Thursday, April 1, 2010

Netflix is the big loser in Postal Service changes

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"...eliminating Saturday delivery, the Postal Service has also said that it wants to raise postage fees. If these changes are implemen...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

USPS governors approve five-day mail plan

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"...street delivery and blue box collections will be eliminated on Saturdays, Express Mail service will continue seven days a week, Po...

USPS Launches Five-Day Delivery Internet Site

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"...This website is designed to provide postal customers with information regarding our proposal to implement a five-day delivery sche...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Postal Service Lending Hand to Competition?

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Some competitors hope to capitalize on proposed cessation of Saturday mail delivery "...“One thing that’s likely going to happen is wh...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Union Rejects USPS Call For Five-Day Delivery, New Business Model

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"...“Postal management has intensified its financial problems by offering excessive worksharing discounts to major mailers and by subco...
Monday, March 1, 2010

USPS Ponders No Saturday Mail

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"...On Monday the USPS will share its survival plan. Word is officials plan to ask Congress for permission to shorten its work week and...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Obama: Won’t Cut Postal Service Or Hike Worker Tab

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"...President Obama has unveiled a budget for the U.S. Postal Service that would keep six-day mail service and not require increases in...
Monday, April 13, 2009

Dropping day of mail a 'last resort,' local USPS man says

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"...Earlier this year the United States Postal Service's postmaster general caused a stir when he told Congress the USPS may tempor...
Monday, June 30, 2008

Saturday Mail Delivery in Danger?

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Live From the ACMA Forum: So Long, Saturday Mail Delivery? "...The House Appropriations Committee approving an amendment from Rep. Jack...