USPS filed on Friday a notice to the Postal Regulatory Commission to test market “Mail Works Guarantee”. Her are excerpts from the notice: The United States Postal Service hereby gives notice that it intends to conduct a test of an experimental market-dominant product. The experimental product is the “Mail Works Guarantee.” The top advertisers in […]
Something is wrong with this picture. The union agrees to reduce wages in the amount of 24% and we declare victory. Over a career, each employee will receive more than $200,000 less in wages and retirement and we call that a win. And what will postal management do with this windfall ($3.4 billion)? Will they […]
In order to understand the massive losses that the new contract will bring if ratified, I have provided a comparison of the current agreement with the proposed agreement. Clint Burelson, President Olympia [Washington] Local APWU
The huddled masses would be sorely disappointed – the Ellis Island greeter depicted on a new U.S. stamp is actually her Las Vegas replica. The green lady proudly gazes into the distance on the USPS’s newest stamp. But upon closer inspection: she’s a faker. Even the Post Office didn’t pick up on the printing error: […]
Social Awareness Stamps Encourage Conservation WASHINGTON — A recognized sustainability leader and innovator, the U.S. Postal Service continued a 50-year tradition today with the issuance of its latest social awareness stamp: Go Green. The sheet of Forever stamps features 16 actions anyone can take to make a positive impact on the environment. The stamps and […]
Don Derfler says his mail carrier had something to deliver all right but what he left behind was nothing resembling mail. Derfler was waiting for his babysitter when he saw his mailman acting odd at a neighbor’s house across the street. The postal worker then pulled down his pants. That’s when Derfler starting snapping pictures. […]
For 81 years, postal authorities have served Loma Linda’s large Seventh-day Adventist population, forgoing Saturday service — their Sabbath — and delivering mail on Sundays. That is about to change. The 15 mail carriers serving Loma Linda’s 8,000 homes will make their final Sunday delivery this weekend. Saturday delivery starts April 23. Loma Linda is […]
“Five-day mail delivery, if it ever happens, is a few years down the road, according to the chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission. PRC Chairman Ruth Goldway commented on five-day delivery as a guest on an April 11 podcast with Gene Del Polito, the president of the Association for Postal Commerce. “It’s not likely Congress […]
Analysis: House Hearing Sets Troubling Precedent APWU members across the country cheered when President Cliff Guffey stood up for postal workers at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on April 5, but the inquiry into the union’s tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement set a troubling precedent nonetheless. With governors and state […]
“Here are a few more questions and answers [on Non-Tradtional Full-Time jobs] that I think the membership should be aware of before they vote on the proposed contract. I believe that if all Clerk Craft employees were aware of the details and impact of the NTFT jobs, they would unanimously reject this contract” – By Clint […]