NAPS: Senate May Consider Postal Reform Bill Feb. 6
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From the National Association of Postal Supervisors
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Postal reform legislation is likely to be considered on the Senate floor very soon, possibly as early as February 6. NAPS is concerned that the bill approved by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (S. 1789) is defective in critical ways. Important changes are needed before the Senate passes postal reform legislation.
Alert your Senators and urge passage of legislation that preserves postal service to all Americans and builds a base for a more profitable operation. The Senate can restore the Postal Service to profitability by fixing the defects in the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act and kick-starting new growth initiatives.
Take Action. Contact your Senators today by clicking on the “Take Action” link. Take Action!
NAPS Letters to Groups regarding USPS Veterans Preference Policies
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POSTAL SUPERVISORS
January 5, 2012
Mr. Fang Wong
National Commander
American Legion
Post Office Box 1055
Indianapolis IN 46206
Dear Commander Fong,
National Headquarters
1727 KlNG STREET, SUlTE 400
ALEXANDRIA, VA 22314-2753
Phone (703) 836-9660
As an organization that represents the interests of our nation’s veterans, we would like to bring to your attention a serious matter that will undoubtedly impact the future employment of hundreds if not thousands of veterans who now work for the United States Postal Service
The United States Postal Service is one of the largest employers of veterans in the country. It is estimated that around 25% of the Postal Service’s 590,000 employees are veterans of our armed forces. Many of these veterans are employed at Postal Service mail processing facilities, which serve a vital role in sorting and preparing mail for delivery.
Our organization is fighting to stop the Postal Service plans to close over 250 of these mail processing facilities throughout the country due to the Postal Service’s current financial condition. Congress is debating several bills that could resolve the Postal Service’s financial crisis.
While the legislative debate continues, the Postal Service has plans for cost cutting that will impact thousands of postal employees, including large numbers of veterans and disabled veterans. Read more
NAPS Requests Fact Finding on USPS 2011-2015 Pay Package Offer
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NAPS Response to USPS Pay Package FY 2011-2015
“Although the Postal Service’s current financial condition would lend itself to belt-tightening by everyone in the Postal Service, our organization cannot agree with the pay proposals that have been offered in light of the efforts that our members have given in managing operations and supporting the overall service goals and mission of the Postal Service. NAPS also proposed many other provisions beyond pay and benefits that were not addressed by the Postal Service. We intend to exhaust all remedies to ensure that we reach a fair and equitable pay package.”
NAPS Invokes Rights under Title 39, USC and requests Fact Finding:
On Monday, November 14, 2011, the National Association of Postal Supervisors initiated a request to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) to enter Fact Finding with the United States Postal Service in accordance with procedures in 39 U.S.C. Section 1004(f) and 29 CFR Part 1404.
Now that our request for Fact Finding has been submitted, pursuant to 39 U.S.C. Section 1004(f)(2), within 15 days after receiving our request, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service shall provide a list of seven (7) individuals recognized as experts in supervisory and managerial pay policies.
Each party shall designate one individual from the list to serve on the panel. If, within 10 days after the list is provided, either of the parties has not designated an individual from the list, the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service shall make the designation. The first two individuals designated from the list shall meet within 5 days and shall designate a third individual from the list.
The third individual shall chair the panel. If the two individuals designated from the list are unable to designate a third individual within 5 days after their first meeting, the Director shall designate the third individual. In addition to the submission to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, we served notice to the Postal Service of our intentions to initiate Fact Finding.
As further information becomes available we will release it to the membership. We appreciate your support in this matter.
NAPS Resident Officers
source: National Association of Postal Supervisors
NAPS To Congress: USPS Network Plans and Elimination of Next-Day Delivery Will Contribute to its Demise
Filed under: Congress, NAPS, postal, postal news, postal supervisors, usps
From the National Association of Postal Supervisors
“NAPS sent to the full House and Senate Committees expressing our position on the Postal Service’s plans to consolidate and close processing facilities along with our recommendations for a legislative solution.” Read more
Postal Supervisors will join unions September 27, 2011 in effort to save USPS
Filed under: NALC, NAPS, NPMHU, NRLCA, postal, postal news, postal reform, usps
The leadership of the National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS) has agreed to join forces with the four postal unions representing employees of the Postal Service to designate September 27, 2011 as a day of action to Save America’s Postal Service.
Together, NAPS, the American Postal Workers Union, the National Association of Letter Carriers, the National Postal Mail Handlers Union and the National Rural Letter Carriers Association will rally in every congressional district in the country to concentrate our efforts to build support for H.R. 1351, a bill introduced in the House by Representative Stephen Lynch (D-MA). Read more
USPS Major Announcement Rescheduled
From the National Association OF Supervisors (NAPS)
The USPS has advised that their major announcement that was scheduled for September 8, 2011 has been rescheduled to September 15th due to the president’s address to Congress now scheduled for September 8th.
NAPS
NAPS Urge Senators To Support Carper, Collins Postal Reform Bills
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From the National Association of Postal Supervisors:
August 31, 2011
Dear Member of the United States Senate:
I write on behalf of the nearly 32,000 members of our association, many of whom work and vote in your District.
The United States Postal Service faces an unprecedented crisis. It is projected to run out of cash on September 30, an outcome caused largely by retiree health care prepayments the Postal Service is required to make that are far larger than reasonable or necessary. This result is due to Congressional statutory requirements imposed in 2006, not to Postal Service mismanagement.
We urge Congress to realign the Postal Service’s retiree health prefunding schedule to a larger time period consistent with what the Postal Service can afford, making use of a surplus created by Postal Service pension overpayments. That pension surplus, according to studies of the Postal Regulatory Commission and the Inspector General of the Postal Service, could be as large as $55-75 billion. Legislative proposals offered by Sen. Tom Carper (S. 1010) and Sen. Susan Collins (S. 353), in part, would realign the Postal Service’s prefunding payments.
Realignment of the Postal Service’s retiree health prefunding payments clearly would defuse the postal crisis. Most important, this action would eliminate the need for sweeping, alternative proposals recently advanced by the Postal Service, which we oppose, which would:
- Reduce delivery to six days per week to five days per week or less;
- Eliminate overnight delivery of First Class mail in local areas, resulting in the closure of nearly half of current mail processing facilities, eliminating thousands of jobs;
- Close thousands of small Post Offices, many of them in rural areas; and
- Permit the Postal Service to secede from the federal health and retirement programs and create alternative health and retirement plans for its employees and retirees.
The proposals offered by Sen. Tom Carper and Sen. Susan Collins, in part, would require the Office of Personnel Management to review the postal Service’s past pension payments, using modern, well-accepted principles of accounting, and to require the Postal Service to use any surplus of payments to satisfy its remaining health prefunding obligations under the 2006 law.
We urge you to support these measured and responsible efforts proposed by your colleagues to stabilize the Postal Service’s financial outlook. Without swift action, it will be difficult, if not impossible to avoid the massive changes in service and infrastructure the USPS unnecessarily has had to propose.
Sincerely Yours
Louis M. Atkins
President
Atkins letter to Senate.pdf (application/pdf Object).
NAPS President to Testify Before Senate Panel on Postal crisis
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Pay Talks Between USPS and Postal Management Associations Underway
From the National Association of Postmasters of the US:
Pay talks between the U. S. Postal Service and the management associations are now underway. The Postal Service has submitted proposed changes in pay policies and schedules and fringe benefits for Postmasters for the period covering fiscal year 2011 through fiscal year 2015. NAPUS and League representatives will now enter the consultative process to discuss the proposed changes with the Postal Service, which will include providing the Postal Service with a list of pay issues on behalf of Postmasters.
While specific details of the pay consultations will remain confidential, updates on the talks will be provided on the NAPUS website as they become available.
NAPS: Issa’s Postal Bill Would Worsen USPS Financial Condition
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“Mr. Issa’s legislation also falls short in failing to authorize new avenues of commerce for the Postal Service as part of a broader, realistic business model for the 21st century.”
Statement by National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS) President Louis Atkins on Postal Reform Legislation:
June 30, 2011
The sweeping legislation proposed by Congressman Darrell Issa (H.R. 2019) to overhaul the United States Postal Service is dangerously misguided. It is an attack upon the management authority of the Postal Service and its dedicated workforce. The legislation should be firmly rejected by the Congress.
The legislation is misguided because it fails to address the immediate cause of the Postal Service’s financial problems – far too aggressive retiree health prefunding payments and pension overpayments. Congress largely created these perverse problems; Congress should first fix them.
Mr. Issa’s legislation, by failing to deal constructively with the prefunding and pension overpayment issues, would only worsen the Postal Service’s deteriorating financial condition. The creation of new government entities under the bill, like the Commission for Postal Reorganization and the Postal Service Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, will result in more government and more costs, not less. Mr. Issa’s legislation also falls short in failing to authorize new avenues of commerce for the Postal Service as part of a broader, realistic business model for the 21st century.
We continue to support proposals that will authorize the Postal Service to use billions of dollars in pension overpayments – as conclusively determined by the Postal Regulatory Commission and the Inspector General of the Postal Service – to help prepay its retiree health care costs. We urge the Congress to adopt the common-sense measures proposed by Rep. Stephen Lynch and Senator Tom Carper and Senator Susan Collins that would address the overpayments issue and help restore the Postal Service’s financial health.