"...prior to the implementation of the RIF on the remaining impacted EAS employees.
Due to the diligence of the members of the NAPS executive board, who worked closely with local Areas and Districts and the cooperation of USPS headquarters, we are able to announce today that remaining impacted employees are expected to be placed in positions thereby avoiding a RIF...."
"..."I think many postal employees are still concerned about the overall economy, and their chances of finding part-time employment after they have retired from the Postal Service."..."
"...Employees eligible for a Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) are beginning to receive their VER offer letters in the mail. The offer mentions the incentive, but fails to spell out the amount and provide a description of the incentive...."
"...Terms of the contract were not released. FedEx provides transportation and delivery for the date-certain product to 190 countries and territories...."
"...Because the number of addresses grows by 1.5 million each year, letter carriers represented by the National Association of Letter Carriers and the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association were not extended this offer. The incentive provides eligible employees $10,000 to be paid during the first three months of Fiscal Year 2010, creating salary and benefit savings for the next nine months. The same employees will receive a second payment of $5,000 in Fiscal Year 2011. Fiscal Year 2010 starts Oct. 1, 2009...."
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"...The Postal Service has informed the NPMHU that it will be offering retirement seminars, on-the-clock¸ that employees will be able to attend..."
"...There will be a moratorium on excessing from Aug. 24 through Oct. 9 to allow time to assess the vacancies created by the retirements and separations. During this period, excessing notices that have already been issued will be reviewed.
If more than 25,000 employees indicate they wish to accept the offer, the parties will discuss implementation, based on a proportion of the number of employees in the complement of the APWU and Mail Handler crafts. Mail Handlers are expected to receive an offer virtually identical to the APWU-negotiated agreement...."
"...The Postal Service is offering $15,000 buyouts to employees in an effort to cut costs at a time when the post office is being buffeted by the recession and the popularity of e-mail and electronic bill payment...."
"...charges of using the U.S. Postal Service to ship hundreds of pounds of marijuana, according to court records. On Monday morning, postal employee Eva Zamora, 45, from San Benito and Juana Pesina Sierra, 54, from Los Indios ..."
"...scene near his Raycroft Avenue home in Weymouth when a U.S. postal service truck coming around a corner struck him, near 338 Summer St. He later died at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth...."
"...if you drop your membership, don't do it half way. Resign your full time career position. Become a casual. You will then receive no union negotiated benefits. i.e. representation, route/annual bidding, pay raises, step increases, etc. you get the idea. Be fair. Get out if you want. Just don't accept anything the Union provides...."
"...a minimum of seven hours a day in transit to work a straight seven-hour shift. They have no choice. If they refuse, they will be fired. They have been, in USPS-speak, “excessed.”..."
"...National Association of Postal Supervisors President Ted Keating reportedly said there was "collective disappointment that you chose the Postal Service as a scapegoat and an example of inefficiency." "Your negative references to the Postal Service without knowledge of the facts was a disservice not only to the members of our organization, but to all postal employees," he wrote. ..."
"..."If the president considers the Postal Service as an example, we should all be scared." The case: "Despite numerous advantages that FedEx and UPS could only dream of having, the Postal Service loses money."..."
"...Through its Station and Branch Optimization Initiative, the Postal Service hopes to generate additional cost savings by identifying post offices, stations and branches, primarily located in urban and suburban population centers, that are suitable for consolidation or elimination from the mail network...."
"...Obama was trying to calm concerns that the government program was meant to eliminate private health-care companies. After pointing out that UPS and FedEx are effectively competing with the USPS Obama added, “It's the post office that's always having problems”...."
"...analysis” of the USPS does not reflect the dedication and hard work of 650,000 postal employees, including those represented by collective bargaining agreements, supervisors, postmasters, executives, and the Board of Governors. We are proud to be part of the world’s best postal system, providing the best service and most inexpensive postage. ..."
"...Potter, who was named by a GOP-appointed Postal Board during the Bush administration, has proposed cuts in the workforce as the solution. He says that at least 677 post offices should be closed, most of them in major cities, and that 55,000 workers should be fired. The USPS workforce, the unions note, has already shrunk, through retirements and buyouts, to 603,000 workers, from 773,000 several years ago...."
