WASHINGTON — Fewer than 170 offices remain under review for possible consolidation under the U.S. Postal Service station and branch consolidation initiative. Today’s announcement updates a review process begun earlier this summer that initially examined about 3,300 stations and branches in urban and suburban areas across the country, focusing on facilities in relatively close proximity […]
Why GAO Did This Study The Program for Reassessing Work Provided to Injured Employees Is Under Way, but Actions Are Needed to Improve Program Management Highlights of GAO-10-78, a report to congressional requesters Between 50,000 and 60,000 United States Postal Service (Service) employees, or 7 to 8 percent of the Service’s workforce, occupied a modified […]
More Than 830 Million Pieces of Mail Expected Today WASHINGTON—Today marks the Postal Service’s busiest mailing day of the year, with more than 830 million pieces of mail entering the system. This represents an increase of more than 40 percent in the average daily volume of 583 million pieces of mail. “Bring on the rush […]
Managers and supervisors who are responsible for reporting workplace injuries and accidents soon will have a new online resource to streamline and manage that process — the Employee Health and Safety (EHS) system. Why is this significant? This online system automates accident reporting and injury claims management. It’s all electronic, makes better use of resources […]
From the NALC eActivist Network: Two U.S. senators have responded to the campaign by NALC and other unions to remove an excise tax on health plans, now in the Senate health care bill, that could negatively affect letter carriers’ health plans later in the next decade. Joined by workers and labor leaders at a press […]
One Hundred and Nine Mailers Sent 11,000 Mailings With Intelligent Mail Barcode WASHINGTON—One hundred and nine commercial mailers can’t be wrong. That’s the number of mostly high-volume mailers who helped the U.S. Postal Service deliver one billion pieces of mail using Full Service Intelligent Mail. The milestone mailing entered the distribution network on Dec. 4, […]
APWU News Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced [PDF] Dec. 7 that she is reviewing changes made early this year to regulations governing the Family and Medical Leave Act. The announcement has set off speculation that the Department of Labor will overturn revisions implemented at the very end of the Bush administration. APWU members may […]
AT&T Will Provide Managed Network Services for the U.S. Postal Service Network Expansion Government Solutions has announced a $120-million contract extension to support U. S. Postal Service facilities across the country under the Postal Advanced Telecommunications Network (PATN) contract. Under terms of the agreement, AT&T will provide Managed Network Services such as IP address management, […]
Annual Holiday food drive to benefit local charities SANTA BARBARA, CA—Postal Service letter carriers will deliver more than mail on Saturday, Dec.12, 2009. With the help of residential Postal customers, and the support of the Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers Union, Postal employees in Goleta, Santa Barbara, Montecito and Carpinteria will […]
WWF Praises Bipartisan Effort to Help Save Rhinos, Tigers and Other Endangered Species ? Washington, December 7, 2009 — World Wildlife Fund today applauded the passage of a House bill introduced by Representative Henry Brown (R-SC) that will raise funds to save endangered species around the world. The Multinational Species Conservation Fund’s Semipostal Stamp Act […]