"...lawmakers announced a new effort to save about 100 mail processing plants now slated to be closed or consolidated next month. The new proposal, offered by members in both parties, would force the U.S. Postal Service to ease off part of its plan to slow down the delivery of first-class mail..."
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Will senate postal bill save mail processing plants not currently closed?
New Senate postal bill could prevent some closings Read our latest posts! .
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Mail delays begin in high-tech mecca
Closing mail facility in Huntsville will hurt service, officials say Read our latest posts! .
"...local officials, who say a government plan to close a regional mail-processing facility in Huntsville next month is already causing mail delays, collection changes and other issues across North Alabama that the public doesn't realize. "The level of services we've become accustomed to will be no more," Michelle Jordan, director of the City of Huntsville Economic Development Department, said last week...."
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Postal Service cutbacks could cost $5 billion
Hidden cost of postal cutbacks: $5 billion Read our latest posts! .
"...a survey that the Postal Service commissioned -- and then dismissed and pushed to make secret. The survey, budgeted to cost up to $435,000, shows closures and cutbacks would cost $5.2 billion in lost business and result in a 7.7% drop in mail volume...."
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Postal Service’s own analysis of plan shows it will lead to huge losses
Backlash against USPS mail plant closures Read our latest posts! .
"...Senator Collins said: “Today we learn that the Postal Service’s own analysis, submitted secretly to its regulators, reveals that the destructive service reduction plan to delay mail and shut down postal plants will lead to a more than 9% decrease in First Class Mail and a 7.7% reduction in mail of all classes.”..."
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Impact of Age When Claiming Social Security Retirement Benefits
Social Security and Timing Read our latest posts! .
"...when to claim benefits – failings that could jeopardize their own financial security and that of their dependents...."
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Postal Service cannot prove the consolidation plan will realize any significant amount of savings
Modern Times at the Postal Service: Network Rationalization gives more work to idle machines Read our latest posts! .
"...In a few weeks, the Postal Service will begin implementing a plan that will cost 35,000 postal jobs and probably just as many non-postal jobs, displace tens of thousands of workers, cause long commutes, break up families, hurt the economies of over 200 communities, slow down the mail, and drive business away — all so that the Postal Service can give more work to idle machines...."
Postal supervisor confesses to stealing $40,000 worth of valuables from mail
Postal worker confesses to stealing $40,000 worth of valuables in mail Read our latest posts! .
"...The postal supervisor took photographs of the $40,000 in stolen merchandise that he’s accused of peddling on eBay..."
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Postal Service to offer retirement incentives to 150,000 workers
USPS to offer retirement incentives to 150,000 workers Read our latest posts! .
"...The U.S. Postal Service announced plans to offer incentives to retire to 150,000 eligible employees, CNN Money reports..."
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
USPS going broke, but wants to run its own health plan
Lawmakers skeptical of US Postal Service health plan Read our latest posts! .
"...Lawmakers worry it could raise premiums, hurt federal
plans..."
Friday, March 23, 2012
"No wonder the Postal Service wanted to keep this report a secret,” Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.) said
Postal Service closing plans panned by lawmakers Read our latest posts! .
"...The U.S. Postal Service stands to lose billions of dollars in the first year after it closes 200 mail processing facilities and slows the delivery of first-class mail, according to a feasibility study released this week...."
USPS Mail Handler Union Contract Bargaining Moves To Mediation
Bargaining Moves To Mediation Read our latest posts! .
"...The mediation will continue for at least sixty days, unless the parties agree otherwise, either because they have reached a tentative agreement or because they and the mediator believe that an extension of the mediation process would be appropriate. ..."
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Sen. Susan Collins losing patience with Postmaster General Donahoe
USPS supporter in Senate criticizes postmaster general Read our latest posts! .
"...attitude seems so stubbornly entrenched that I worry that even if our bill becomes law, the current Postal Service leadership would not enact it properly in good faith."..."
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Postal Service VERA Announcement Coming...
When Will USPS VERA Announcements Come, What Will be Offered, and Who Will Be Eligible? Read our latest posts! .
"...an announcement about early retirements coming early this week fits the Postal Service’s current plan to implement the network restructuring in the second half of June, 2012. Any further delay in announcing early retirement incentives could force the implantation date closer to the end of June or possibly into July...."
Jumping the gun on VER?
USPS Early Retirement, RIF, and Reassignments Rumors Read our latest posts! .
"...reported that a number of Postal Service employees saw a web page that had dead links to VERA and other retirement incentive...."
Saturday, March 17, 2012
USPS buyouts, early retirement offers expected
USPS buyouts, early retirement offers expected Read our latest posts! .
"...USPS officials have acknowledged they are considering a voluntary early retirement program. But Louis Atkins, president of the National Association of Postal Supervisors, said..."
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Mail Processing Facility Closure an "utter disaster", according to...
"...Kohl’s department store’s Black Friday ads in the mailboxes on his route.
“Dec. 28 I was casing these, and it was clearly marked on the pieces that they should have been in homes Nov. 19, 21 or 22,” he said...."
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Letter carrier dead after pit bull attack in San Diego-area
Postal Carrier Dies After Bitten by Pit Bull Read our latest posts! .
"...An attack by an unleashed dog called a Pit Bull on a San Diego-area letter carrier contributed to the postal worker's death two days later from..."
Friday, March 9, 2012
Postal Service suspending mail processing network consolidations during the election mailing season
USPS addresses election-year questions Read our latest posts! .
"...efforts include suspending mail processing network consolidations during the election mailing season. USPS also has formed an Election Mail Task Force..."
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Postal Service plans to suspend its planned closure of processing facilities and post offices
Postal Service to suspend closures during election season Read our latest posts! .
"...The U.S. Postal Service plans to suspend its planned closure of processing facilities and post offices during the November election season..."
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Postal Employees face massive job cuts
US Postal Service facing massive job cuts Read our latest posts! .
"...USPS says that many of the workers will retain their jobs, while others will be transferred to processing plants near and far. Those workers will comprise the increasingly large number of workers classified among today’s “super commuters.”..."
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