Text of S. 1789 as adopted

Senate Releases Text of S. 1789, as Adopted

"...The Postal Service may provide voluntary separation incentive payments to employees of the Postal Service who voluntarily separate from service before October 1, 2015 (including payments to employees who retire under section 8336(d)(2) or 8414(b)(1)(B) of title 5, United States Code, before October 1, 2015), which may not exceed the maximum amount provided under section 3523(b)(3)(B) of title 5, United States Code, for any employee...."    

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Destruction of the Postal Service continues with flawed bill

Senate passes postal bill that would end Saturday mail

"...Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat, offered an amendment that would have extended for two years the moratorium on closings. His amendment failed to obtain the needed 60 votes on Wednesday, and he voted against the final bill. "Without the inclusion of a two-year moratorium, I will not support the final passage of the Postal Reform bill," Manchin tweeted...."    

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Spiders Close Post Office!

Recluse Spider Infestation Leads To Closure of Post Office

"...Recluse spiders have been found at a post office in Louisville, and the building has been closed down for more than two weeks to be treated. ..."    

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Will senate postal bill save mail processing plants not currently closed?

New Senate postal bill could prevent some closings

"...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..."    

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Mail delays begin in high-tech mecca

Closing mail facility in Huntsville will hurt service, officials say

"...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...."    

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Postal Service cutbacks could cost $5 billion

Hidden cost of postal cutbacks: $5 billion

"...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...."    

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Postal Service’s own analysis of plan shows it will lead to huge losses

Backlash against USPS mail plant closures

"...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.”..."    

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Impact of Age When Claiming Social Security Retirement Benefits

Social Security and Timing

"...when to claim benefits – failings that could jeopardize their own financial security and that of their dependents...."    

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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

"...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...."    

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Postal supervisor confesses to stealing $40,000 worth of valuables from mail

Postal worker confesses to stealing $40,000 worth of valuables in mail

"...The postal supervisor took photographs of the $40,000 in stolen merchandise that he’s accused of peddling on eBay..."    

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Postal Service to offer retirement incentives to 150,000 workers

USPS to offer retirement incentives to 150,000 workers

"...The U.S. Postal Service announced plans to offer incentives to retire to 150,000 eligible employees, CNN Money reports..."    

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USPS going broke, but wants to run its own health plan

Lawmakers skeptical of US Postal Service health plan

"...Lawmakers worry it could raise premiums, hurt federal
plans..."    

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"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

"...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...."    

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USPS Mail Handler Union Contract Bargaining Moves To Mediation

Bargaining Moves To Mediation

"...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. ..."    

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Sen. Susan Collins losing patience with Postmaster General Donahoe

USPS supporter in Senate criticizes postmaster general

"...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."..."    

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Postal Service VERA Announcement Coming...

When Will USPS VERA Announcements Come, What Will be Offered, and Who Will Be Eligible?

"...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...."    

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Jumping the gun on VER?

USPS Early Retirement, RIF, and Reassignments Rumors

"...reported that a number of Postal Service employees saw a web page that had dead links to VERA and other retirement incentive...."    

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USPS buyouts, early retirement offers expected

USPS buyouts, early retirement offers expected

"...USPS officials have acknowledged they are considering a voluntary early retirement program. But Louis Atkins, president of the National Association of Postal Supervisors, said..."    

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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...."    

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Letter carrier dead after pit bull attack in San Diego-area

Postal Carrier Dies After Bitten by Pit Bull

"...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..."    

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