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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
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Postal Operations Sustainment and Transformation (POST) Act of 2010
An attempt to lower working class wages?
"...arbitrators have awarded postal employees what they believe are comparable pay and benefits without taking the Postal Service's financial condition into account. Recognizing that this situation cannot continue in a world where the Postal Service operates under a rate cap and faces stiffer competition from electronic communication, the bill requires arbitrators to take the Postal Service's financial condition into account along with other factors such as the comparability requirement and the details of the rate system. ..."
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"...arbitrators have awarded postal employees what they believe are comparable pay and benefits without taking the Postal Service's financial condition into account. Recognizing that this situation cannot continue in a world where the Postal Service operates under a rate cap and faces stiffer competition from electronic communication, the bill requires arbitrators to take the Postal Service's financial condition into account along with other factors such as the comparability requirement and the details of the rate system. ..."
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Who was the first Postmaster General?
"...Postal service in the United States was greatly influenced by Benjamin Franklin who was appointed Postmaster of Philadelphia in 1737, Joint Postmaster General of the colonies for the Crown in 1753, and Postmaster for the United Colonies in 1775. Through Franklin's efforts, the length of time for mail service between major cities in the colonies was cut in half. ..."
USPS announces restructuring of Maintenance
"...the new Maintenance structure. There will be an opportunity to those eligible to apply for a VERA to take a VERA with an effective date at the end of 2010. The application process for obtaining a Maintenance position throughout the restructuring will be limited to EAS employees only. No craft employees will be allowed to apply for Maintenance positions until the restructuring is completed in December, 2010. ..."
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Hearing on postal consolidation set for Monday
"...An area mail processing feasibility study in Huntington started earlier this summer and was completed earlier this month. Several dozen employees could be transferred to other post offices, including the one in Charleston that has nearly 200 employees...."
Saturday, September 18, 2010
100 year old postal worker is not retiring
"...He has been working at the Lexington Park Postal Office since 1970. He's still at it six days a week at least five hours a day. ..."
Postal Service challenges OSHA citations at Portsmouth facility
"...Officials say inspectors found untrained or inadequately trained employees at the distribution center performing troubleshooting and voltage testing on or near live electrical equipment and wiring that had not first been de-energized. ..."
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Several postal service uniforms stolen, beware of impostors
"..."Postal employees should be maintain tight security for Postal facilities and monitor those entering any building, challenging unknown entrants for proper ID," said Postal Inspection Service Public Information Officer Justin Crooks. "This theft is a misdemeanor, but using the uniforms to perpetrate a crime would be a federal offense..."
Sunday, September 12, 2010
A look back: Postal chief calls agency 'critical'
This is a 'look back' to an Associated Press article dated March 26, 2009. Read our latest posts! .
"...The only lingering question, Potter told a House subcommittee, is which bills will get paid and which will not. He said ensuring the payment of workers' salaries comes first. But Potter also said other bills may have to wait...."
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Maintenance Changes and Early Retirements
"...There will be an opportunity to those eligible to apply for a VERA to take a VERA with an effective date at the end of 2010.
The application process for obtaining a Maintenance position throughout the restructuring will be limited to EAS employees only. No craft employees will be allowed to apply for Maintenance positions until the restructuring is completed in December, 2010. All applications for positions must go through eCareer for processing – even laterals. ..."
Sunday, August 29, 2010
President Obama: Why Are You Allowing Your Postmaster General to Run a Plantation?
"...the postal service is routinely falsifying employee clock rings, subjecting its employees to harassment, intimidation, and abuse, and forcing many of its employees to work between four and six hours a day without pay. Then, even though the Inspector General has documentation of the commission of a federal crimes in hand, the perpetrators are being allowed to walk away with impunity, and even promoted...."
Saturday, August 28, 2010
North Pole Postmark ...just around the corner!
...it's just around the corner! Get your North Pole Postmark for your Santa letters early. Start that shopping now! "...source for Santa Claus letters for kids, postmarks from Santa at the North Pole for you letters from Santa, and it's all free to copy and print. Get your Santa postmark now...."
Friday, August 27, 2010
OSHA Fines USPS For Safety Violations at Kansas City BMC
"...The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued the Postal Service $191,000 in fines for exposing employees to serious and repeat safety hazards at the Bulk Mail Center (BMC) in Kansas City, KS...."
Postal Service sees $764M July loss
"...Mail volume was up 0.9% year over year to 13.8 billion pieces. Of that, 13.7 billion pieces were handled by the USPS' mailing services unit...."
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
USPS Moving to Implement Energy-efficient Lighting
"...The USPS currently has LEED-certified post offices in Denver, Colo. and Southampton, N.Y., as well as mail processing centers in Greenville, S.C. and Troy, Mich. Other green building initiatives include implementing energy-efficient lighting and HVAC as well as solar photovoltaic systems and fuel cells...."
Fight Against Subcontracting Takes Center Stage at MVS Conference
"...Subcontracting will be a topic of discussion when contract negotiations get underway next month, and will affect both drivers and mechanics, Pritchard said. The union’s goal will be to keep work in-house.
“The Postal Service is refusing to hire,” he noted. “We have always maintained that we give them a better product for less.”..."
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
APWU Convention and Contract Update
"...Burrus reminded delegates that the next round of contract negotiations is set to begin just days after the conclusion of the convention, and said the union’s goals are to restrict excessing, gain access to information from the Postal Service without cost, win more opportunities for upward mobility, limit subcontracting, and increase wages.
While 2010 bargaining will be difficult, Burrus assured delegates that the union expects to achieve more gains in these negotiations.
“We expect a contract that adequately rewards members for maintaining the best postal system in the world.”..."
Monday, August 23, 2010
Salvatore Bagarozzi Mailman Dealing Drugs, Says USPS
"...Accused of selling crack cocaine on his route, Bagarozzi..."
U. S. Postal Service Up To $4.2 million in OSHA Safety Violation Fines?
"...The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) slammed the Postal Service with $350,000 in fines for exposing employees to electrical safety hazards at the Portsmouth, NH Processing and Distribution Center (P&DC)...."
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Boycott on“Voice of the Employee” Surveys
"... The APWU is asking union members to boycott USPS “Voice of the Employee” surveys in order to prevent management from manipulating the results to undercut the union during upcoming contract negotiations.
The results of the survey are likely to be misrepresented by the Postal Service in an effort to reduce employee wages and benefits, APWU Director of Industrial Relations Greg Bell wrote in an Aug. 6 letter to local and state union presidents...."
Monday, August 16, 2010
Fire Destroys Healdsburg’s Post Office Annex
Fire Destroys Healdsburg’s Post Office Annex Article Title: Fire destroys downtown landmark Article Snip: Lead and asbestos filled smoke scorched the air in an acrid lung-piercing plume as firefighters worked to contain the blaze to the United States Postal Service lot. Reference: yourtown.pressdemocrat.com
Friday, August 6, 2010
OSHA fines USPS $3.7 million plus
"...withdraw flawed management orders and instructions regarding safe electrical work practices. “The Department of Labor motion to consolidate the cases would merge these similar complaints so that the result of any litigation or, settlement discussions would be applied to every postal facility where APWU members are exposed to electrical hazards,” said Greg Bell, APWU Director of Industrial Relations. “It would provide a uniform remedy and prevent the Postal Service and OSHA from negotiating separate, individual settlements at different locations.”..."
Post Office Loses $3.5 Billion
"...relief may come with the proposed price increase for mail delivery requested in July, which would raise the price of a first-class stamp from 44 cents to 46 cents. The post office says the proposed increase, which would go into affect on Jan. 2, 2011, would raise $2.3 billion during its first nine months...."
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Major Mailers Make Billions, But Demand Postal Worker Pay Cuts
"... In their ongoing effort to shift wealth to the richest Americans...continually attack the pay and benefits earned by average workers. Over the past 20 years, the transfer of wealth has been dramatic. Despite significant increases in productivity, workers’ real wages have declined, while salaries, bonuses, dividends and “golden parachutes” for executives have skyrocketed.A recent glaring example was the demand that auto workers agree to lower their wages — which were established over 50 years of often turbulent struggle..."
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Bond denied for suspect in Atlanta postal stabbing
"...A man charged with stabbing a supervisor at a bulk mail center has been denied bond. ..."
Monday, July 26, 2010
National Reassessment Process
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
Bomb Squad Detonates Pipe Bomb Found In Welch
"...Post Office worker delivering mail noticed some boys gathered around the device. He took the device in order to keep the boys from danger, brought it to the Welch Post Office..."
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Postal workers picket to preserve Saturday service
"...While it might seem logical that the unions’ opposition to five-day-delivery is motivated by job preservation, Smith said most contracts include language preventing employee layoffs. Union members were given that assurance in exchange for their not being allowed to strike, he said...."
CPI-W June 2010
"...The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers
(CPI-W) increased 1.4 percent over the last 12 months to an index
level of 213.839 (1982-84=100). For the month, the index fell 0.1 percent prior to seasonal adjustment...."
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Hazmat team responds to Springfield USPS facility
"...A fire department spokesman says six postal workers had to be decontaminated Sunday after an unknown substance spilled out of a parcel at the U.S. Postal Service’s Bulk Mail Distribution Center...."
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Postal worker found dead in trash was slain
"...post office employee who vanished at work and turned up dead at a dump hours later ..."
Connolly: U.S. Postal Service in a death spiral
"..."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 competition," Connolly said.
He said looking at creative ways of expanding customer service is how USPS will be able to stay competitive. ..."
Thursday, July 8, 2010
FedEx, UPS send out fleet of lobbyists to shape labor law
"...FedEx and its voluble anti-union chairman, Fred Smith, have spent the past year attacking the proposal as a "brown bailout" for UPS and the Teamsters. FedEx, based in Memphis, has more than doubled its lobbying budget during the campaign, to about $1.5 million a month, disclosure records show. ..."
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Stamp prices going up again - 46-cent rate asked
Stamp prices going up again - 46-cent rate asked Read our latest posts! .
"...Under the proposed increases, in addition to the 46-cent rate for the first ounce, the cost for each additional ounce would go up a penny to 18 cents. The cost to mail a postcard would go up 2 cents to 30 cents...."
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Oldest Postal Worker Retires
"...a mail-handler forklift operator. He worked in the same position until his last day of work Tuesday. "I've never really given it a thought (about retiring earlier), to be honest with you. My old supervisor would ask me, `Chester, when are you going to retire?' and I would tell her, `It's none of your business, you know," he said laughing. ..."
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Ex-Postal Employee Pleads Guilty in Check-Theft Scheme
"...Shareen Wilson, 42, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and one count of theft of mail by a U.S. postal employee for her role in a scheme to steal ..."
Friday, June 18, 2010
“This will not be a giveback contract,” APWU President Burrus
"...“We expect management to make many concessionary demands,” Bell said. “But we must fight to improve the wages and working conditions of postal employees.” ..."
Postal Service worker stabs boss with scissors at Kennedy Airport
"...Cops quickly collared Barnett, a 10-year employee of the Postal Service, and charged him with assault, possession of a weapon and attempted murder...."
Acting Postmaster charged with obstructing mail
"...a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service based in Maine, said an “officer in charge” is an acting postmaster. “It’s the temporary head of that facility while there is a search going on for who will take over as the permanent postmaster of the facility,” he said...."
Monday, June 14, 2010
Military service and FERS
"...What are my best options for retiring at age 55? Also, would it still be to my advantage to buy back my military..."
Postal Service needs makeover, not to be shunted aside as obsolete
"...“The USPS is anything but an anachronism on a slow march to oblivion. It is a national treasure that provides an immense and irreplaceable social service. … We must recognize that the Postal Service can and must remain public if we are to maintain the essential infrastructures of democracy.”..."
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Shelter Animal stamps no longer rare
"..."All Huntsville Post Offices have (animal stamp) supplies in stock," Joseph Breckenridge of the U.S. Postal Service communications department for Alabama and the Florida panhandle wrote in an e-mail. "The stamps were flying out the door, but supply has now caught up with demand." ..."
Friday, June 11, 2010
Capital area chief Lane leaves Postal Service after assault allegation
"...Lane, based in Gaithersburg, visited the Dulles Processing and Distribution Center in Sterling on June 1 and allegedly argued with the center's manager, Kathleen J. Michaels. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office responded to a 911 call at the building..."
Seattle man charged in suspicious mailings to Republican senator
"...Writing the court, a Seattle-based postal inspector said the U.S. Postal Inspection Service launched an investigation following a May 8 incident in which a postal employee's face was dusted with the white powder while handling Howe's letter to DeMint. Postal inspectors opened the letter two days later...."
Monday, June 7, 2010
Going postal -- the violence continues
"...Robin Quintin Parks, who was laid off from the U.S. Postal Service last December, went on a bizarre alcohol-induced shooting rampage from his car early Sunday morning in Lakeland, reports the Orlando Sentinel...."
Friday, June 4, 2010
Bernstock Resigning from USPS
"...The president of shipping and mailing services for the U.S. Postal Service, Bob Bernstock, will resign his position on June 4. Bernstock is currently under investigation for awarding about $5.8 million in no-bid contracts to his former business associates...."
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Postal Voluntary Early Retirement Offer Again?
Take a look at the FederalSoup forum (page 38) for the latest "early out retirement offer rumor" ...this one claims a July 2010 announcement. Additionally, the individual claims that the PMG was at their plant and spoke of it, along with other interesting information found in the post. Take a look!
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