"...The need for reform at the top and a complete overhaul of the current USPS culture is evident when you look at the scandals revealed recently, including the Bob Bernstock scandal in July,..."
Friday, October 15, 2010
Postal Service echoes Enron abuses
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
2010 APWU Contract Negotiations
"...Keep up with the 2010 APWU Contract Negotiations. ..."
Norman Oklahoma rocked by 4.3-magnitude earthquake
"...Norman, Oklahoma is the site of NCED which is a 72-acre, postal-owned site at 24th and Imhoff Road. It has just been reported that there has been a 4.3-magnitude earthquake in Norman, but officials said no significant damage or injuries have been reported..."
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Postal Service hiring temporary staff for Christmas holidays
"...work during the upcoming holiday mailing season hiring. Mail Handler positions are available at the following locations..."
Sunday, October 10, 2010
USPS Liabilities are a Colossal Sham
"...have nothing to do with USPS “operating expenses,” which include employee wages and benefits. The liabilities are a colossal sham, seized upon by postal management and by anti-worker congressmen who wish to erode the gains made by postal employees over 40 years of collective bargaining. ..."
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
APWU Members March For Good Jobs, Change in America
"... AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka addressed the diverse crowd of nearly 200,000 working people, stressing the importance of committing to change in America.
“We come together today because America needs good jobs,” Trumka said. “Jobs that support families — all families. Jobs that give our young people paths of opportunity, not obstacles. Jobs that allow people to retire with dignity.”..."
Monday, October 4, 2010
PMG message to employees
"...Potter warned employees not to reach any conclusions about recent reports recommending closures and layoffs. “We’re going to meet payroll,” he said. “We’re going to live up to our contracts and pay our people.” However, he added it will be important for the Postal Service to negotiate provisions in new labor contracts that “provide us the tools that we need to successfully manage the business.”..."
Note: emphasis added by The Postal Newsgroup
Sunday, October 3, 2010
U.S. Postal Truck Slams into Home
"...The postal service told her the driver will be drug tested before he is allowed back on the road.
But Senst wants the postal truck taken away and her home patched up.
..."
Postmaster General Potter defends USPS paying full cost of Senior Executives health insurance premiums
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"...“Postal managers do not get locality pay,” he said. “Postal managers only get raises..."
Thursday, September 30, 2010
US Postal Service Denied In Request To Raise Prices
"..."The Postal Service didn't make the case, didn't make the connection between the problems they suffered during the recession and the revenue they were requesting," the commission chairwoman, Ruth Goldway, told the Post. The request seemed more part of the USPS's 10-year business plan than an emergency request, she said...."
Madison County Postal Service employees indicted for theft
"...worked at contract unit in Huntsville, was indicted on a charge of theft of Postal Service funds exceeding $1,000, from Jan. 24, 2008, to Sept. 30, 2009, the U.S. Attorney's Office said...."
Congress declines to bail out Postal Service
"...According to an inspector general report released on Wednesday, USPS will be financially sustainable until volume dips below 100 billion pieces of mail. The agency can adapt to this decline by correcting overpayments to its pension funds..."
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Gohmert letter blasts USPS for study on Lufkin processing plant
"...U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert, in a letter to the U.S. Postal Service, called a study the department plans on the Lufkin mail processing plant "rigged" and a "disturbing proposal...."
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Warning: Union revolution is next
"...Charles Breedlove, 56, of Huntsville, Ala. rallies with American Postal Worker Union members in Detroit to protest..."
This Article is From: www.csmonitor.com
Netflix
"...Reed Hastings founded Netflix on the idea that using the U.S. Postal Service to deliver rented DVDs would be a superior business model. Critics scoffed, but Reed was right. Today, with more than 12.3 million subscribers, Netflix is the biggest company in the business...."
This Article is From: www.cabot.net
Collect Postmarks
"Collect postmarks from across the country."
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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...."
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