KBTX.com -Bryan/College Station, TX Texas A few concerned residents and some postal employees attended a hearing tonight to hear a proposal to move Bryan’s mail processing center to Houston or Austin as a cost saving measure. “We are looking at every area within our organization of ways that we can consolidate and become more efficient, […]
Penalty Overtime Exclusion As referenced in Article 8, Sections 4 and 5, of the USPS–NALC and USPS–APWU national agreements, the December period (during which penalty overtime regulations are not applicable) consists of 4 consecutive service weeks. This year, the December period begins Pay Period 26-11, Week 1 (December 3, 2011), and ends Pay Period 01-12, […]
The following is a message sent out to Postal Employees by APWU Oakland (California) Local #78 regarding Non-Traditional full-time (NTFT) duty assignments. ATTENTION MEMBERS 40 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER It appears that the October 26, 2011, reposting of the manual units’ traditional duty assignments as non-traditional full-time (NTFT) duty assignments is a ploy by […]
Postbusters| Jon Stewart Daily Show -A hot new trend called bankruptcy has taken America by storm, and it’s now as close as the corner mailbox.
Press Release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District Of Ohio Rural Carrier Associate indicted for mail theft June 2, 2011 – A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Joni R. Smith, age 35, of Mogadore, Ohio, with theft of mail by a postal employee and unauthorized opening of mail by a postal […]
Update: Deadtree Edition updated his article after reading my post and reading a USPS report (a retired postal manager helped lead him to the report) on active postal employees that has been published for years. But my point still remains the same. The age of the USPS workforce has no bearing on its financial woes. As […]
From birth dates to death dates when we think of Memorial Day most of us think about our military veterans who have given their lives in defense of America. Of equal importance is the Workers Memorial Day celebrated one month earlier. Today, I would ask that you also think about this day with high regard […]
Columbia, SC—–United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced the indictment of five additional United States Postal Service employees. Mr. Nettles added that these indictments follow five indictments from the Florence area and are part of an ongoing sweep targeting fraud by Postal workers in claiming unemployment benefits. Lisa Hawkins, age 46, of Eutawville, South Carolina, was […]
On March 23, 2011, Rep. Darrell Issa (CA-R), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee announced “a full committee hearing on United States Postal Service (USPS) pay and benefits on April 5th. The Committee expects to hear from the Postal Service on their tentative agreement offered to their largest union, the American Postal […]
Post_and_Parcel just tweeted #USPS is not announcing plans next week to cut jobs by 30,000 this year. They’ve told us it is just 7,500, as announced previously. According to Federal News Radio, Federal Times has found out about USPS plans to reduce the wordforce In the Federal Times article: The positions targeted, which will hit […]