"...The financially troubled Postal Service said Thursday it might close more than 250 mail processing facilities across the country and plans to reduce service standards for first-class mail in an effort to cut costs...."
Friday, September 16, 2011
Postal Service to Lower Service Standards in Order to Close Mail Processing Facilities
Hundreds of postal facilities could close Read our latest posts! .
H.R. 1351 - Best Bill to Save the Postal Service
H.R.1351 -- United States Postal Service Pension Obligation Recalculation and Restoration Act of 2011 (Introduced in House - IH) Read our latest posts! .
"...To amend the provisions of title 5, United States Code, relating to the methodology for calculating the amount of any Postal surplus or supplemental liability under the Civil Service Retirement System, and for other purposes...."
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Postal Announcement relating to Area Mail Processing Feasibility Study List expected Sept. 15, 2011
Area Mail Processing Feasibility Study List (September 14, 2011)
On September 15, 2011, the U.S. Postal Service has reported it will release to the media an announcement identifying a list of Area Mail Processing Feasibility Studies for approximately 400 plants nationwide in an effort to shutter or consolidate approximately 300 plants across the nation. The 21st Century Postal Worker has released the Area Mail Processing Feasibility Study List on their site.
Saturday is Passport Day at a Post Office near you
Saturday is Passport Day at a Post Office near you Read our latest posts! .
"...On Saturday, September 17 only, apply for your U.S. passport at a Regional Passport Agency without an appointment. You will be able to apply for standard processing (4-6 weeks) or pay an additional $60 for Expedited processing (2-3 weeks, door-to-door). Passport Day in the USA also means passport-themed events for adults and children at Regional Passport Agencies and many passport Acceptance Facilities across the country in communities like yours. If you’ve been waiting to get your passport, this is the time!..."
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
H. R. 1351: Restore the USPS budget to financial soundness with zero taxpayer involvement
Lloyd Rollins: In defense of the postal system Read our latest posts! .
"...House Resolution 1351 provides light at the end of the tunnel. It would allow an internal transfer of pension surpluses, surpluses of $75 billion, to be transferred to meet the obligation of the 2006 congressional law..."
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air and Lithium batteries
USPS Puts Lithium Battery Limits on Hold Read our latest posts! .
"...new limits that would have taken effect Oct. 3 for U.S. mail containing equipment with lithium metal or lithium-ion batteries that is bound for international, APO, FPO, or DPO locations are now on hold. ..."
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Tuesday's hearing on the Postal Service’s financial crisis
White House to Propose Plan to Help Postal Service Read our latest posts! .
"...one of the four postal unions, denounced the post office’s proposal to lay off 120,000 workers. The agency has asked Congress to pass a special law overturning no-layoff provisions in its union contracts...."
Monday, September 5, 2011
PMG Donahoe goes to congress for authority
Postal Service warns it could lose $10 billion this year Read our latest posts! .
"...the Postal Service wants congressional authority to break its agreements with labor unions so it can lay off about 120,000 workers. The Service also hopes to ..."
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Collective Bargaining Begins between the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the USPS
Collective Bargaining Begins between the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the USPS Read our latest posts! .
"...The National Postal Mail Handlers Union bargaining team met with representatives of the U.S. Postal Service on August 30, 2011 to mark the official start of the collective bargaining process for a successor agreement to..."
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
FYI: Severance pay for usps employees
Severance pay for usps employees Read our latest posts! .
"...Any career Postal Service employee who is involuntarily separated and who has been employed continuously by the Postal Service and/or other federal agency for at least 12 consecutive months (without a break in service of 3 or more consecutive days) immediately prior to the separation is eligible for severance pay, except..."
Mail Carrier Robbery Attempt
Police investigate robbery attempt on U.S. mail carrier Read our latest posts! .
"...suspect then jumped into the truck and began fighting with the mailman over the package...."
Monday, August 29, 2011
Define: Postalgeddon
Post-al-ged-don Noun /ˈpōstəlˈgedn/
1. The figurative last battle between the labor movement, who are fighting for just wages and benefits for the American working-class versus the current day Robber Barons, who wish to dismantle the U.S. Postal Service in an alleged attempt to lower the wages of the American working-class for profit.
1. The figurative last battle between the labor movement, who are fighting for just wages and benefits for the American working-class versus the current day Robber Barons, who wish to dismantle the U.S. Postal Service in an alleged attempt to lower the wages of the American working-class for profit.
Post Office been here before, but survived the doom and gloom of postalgeddon
The Postal Service Means Business Read our latest posts! .
"...if you figure for inflation and convert those 1975 numbers to 2011 dollars. The 1974 deficit of $2.3 billion would come to $9.7 billion in today’s dollars — over a billion dollars more than the $8.5 billion the Postal Service lost in fiscal year 2010. Yet somehow the Postal Service survived without closing all those post offices...."
Saturday, August 27, 2011
USPS not utilizing labor contract provisions to reduce employees
What Postal Service can’t win from labor unions it hopes to get from Congress
"...the Postal Service doesn’t need to cut staff by circumventing agreements because it has thousands of career and non-career employees who are not covered by the no-layoff provisions. A spokesman for the letter carriers said his union alone has between 17,000 and 30,000 career employee members who are not covered...."
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Postal Employee Layoff Protections -vs- Strikes
U.S. Postal Service Braced for Massive Cuts Read our latest posts! .
"...Many of the gains that postal workers received – including the right to collective bargaining – arose in the wake of a 1970 strike which started in New York and spread to the rest of the country...."
Monday, August 22, 2011
National Postal Mail Handlers Union Contract Negotiations coming soon!
"...the U.S. Postal Service has yet to exhaust every avenue relating to reduction of the workforce. For example, the USPS would be remiss in their efforts to reduce the workforce without offering another Voluntary Early Retirement offer that provides the maximum Voluntary Separation Incentive Payment (VSIP) as a buyout to Mail Handlers. ..."
Friday, August 19, 2011
The bulk mail industry says hands off our profits
Don't touch my junk: The bulk mail industry says hands off our profits
"...The big guns in the room are going to be the bulk mail companies, and they have already made their position clear. They have been fighting against the rate increase since it was initially proposed last year, and they have already come out in favor of the proposed cuts to labor and the post offices. On August 12, within hours of hearing the USPS plan, the Direct Marketing Association— the leading association of businesses using direct marketing (junk mail) — “applauded” the proposed cuts. ..."
Thursday, August 18, 2011
National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) to defend postal employees and service
NALC to Defend Members, 'America's Postal Service' in 2011 Contract Talks Read our latest posts! .
"..."Despite the Postal Service's outrageous show of bad faith at the start of these negotiations, we are prepared to negotiate a fair, responsible, and innovative labor agreement to reward our members and to position the Postal Service for a stronger and better future," Rolando said. ..."
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Postal Service wants to layoff and hire at the same time!
Things that make you go, huh?
Just a question to ponder.
How can the Postmaster General propose breaking union contracts to layoff 120,000 craft employees, while at the same time hire PSE employees at half the pay and no benefits? It sounds to us that it's not about the need for less craft employees, but simply union busting and a desire to lower wages and benefits. Post your thoughts
Monday, August 15, 2011
Why is the postal service so important to us all?
Why We All Have a Stake in the U.S. Postal Service Read our latest posts! .
"...permanent staff. The US Postal Service has more than the two largest telecommunication companies combined, plus Microsoft and Apple, 574,000 workers, of whom 120,000 will be dismissed under a new emergency plan...."
This Article is From: www.theatlantic.com
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