NAPUS To Request Fact Finding on USPS 2011-2015 Pay Package Offer

NAPUS Executive Board Unanimously Approves President Rapoza’s Request to Ask the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to Convene a Factfinding Panel on Postmaster Pay Package In a special telecom tonight, The NAPUS Executive Board unanimously approved President Bob Rapoza’s request to ask the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to convene a factfinding panel to review […]

Senate Committee Grants NAPUS Requests

(11/9/11) Today, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed bipartisan postal relief legislation (S. 1789) by a record vote of 9-1. (Counting proxies, the vote was 12-5.) The committee markup was attended by President Robert Rapoza and Government Relations Director Bob Levi. The Committee overwhelming adopted key NAPUS-promoted amendments. As reported in last […]

USPS Issues Final Decision on Postmaster Pay Package

for Fiscal Years 2011-2015. Postmaster Salary Range Increase of 6.5% from January 2013 through January 2016. “Severe Financial Difficulties” Cited, as PFP Salary Rating Applications are Suspended for FY 2011 and FY 2012. After 4 months of pay talks between representatives from both Postmaster organizations and the Postal Service, today the Postal Service issued a […]

California Postmaster Arrested for stealing more than $23,000 from Rural Post Office

SACRAMENTO, CA (AP) – Federal prosecutors say they have arrested a postmaster for stealing more than $23,000 from a rural post office in Northern California. The U.S. attorney’s office in Sacramento said 38-year-old Kristina Michelle Morris was arrested Thursday for felony embezzlement, theft of cash and theft of money orders. She was released on $10,000 […]

Postmasters Request Meeting With USPS to Discuss RIF Avoidance Strategies

On Monday, League President Mark Strong and NAPUS President Bob Rapoza sent a joint letter to USPS Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Megan Brennan, requesting a meeting to discuss the impact that the Retail Access Optimization Initiative (RAOI) may have on Postmasters whose offices are on the study list. Specifically, the leaders of […]

Postmasters President Tells PRC Closing Rural Post Offices Will Not Help USPS

National League of Postmasters President Mark Strong Tells Commission that Closing Thousands of Rural Post Offices Will harm Economy of Rural America and Not Help Postal Service. Closing 3700 Rural Post Offices Would Save Less Than 3/10s Of One Percent Of USPS Operating Budget. ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA – In Testimony submitted to the Postal Regulatory Commission, […]

USPS Saying Rural America Will Be Served Better After Post Office Closings Is Truly Nonsense

The National League Of Postmasters filed the following testimony with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) addressing the USPS Retail Access Optimization Initiative. Highlights of the testimony: …. the minimal imagined savings to the Postal Service are a critical factor in evaluating a proposal that essentially produces a drastic reduction in availability and service. I know […]

USPS Responds to NAPUS on DUO, RIF and Staffing Issues

Postal Headquarters officials met with NAPUS leaders to respond to questions concerning Postmaster FLSA status when they are downgraded as a result of DUO implemetation.  The meeting also included discussions on RIF procedures for Postmasters who may be impacted by the discontinuance study process and questions about PSE staffing issues.  Listed below are the questions […]

Postmaster to PRC: Financial Challenges That USPS Face Today Are Manufactured

The following are excerpts of comments submitted to the Postal Regulatory Commission regarding the Retail Access Optimization Initiative: The financial challenges that face the Postal Service today are, at heart,manufactured, the result of dysfunctional Congressional oversight and a myopic postal management that seeks at every turn to undermine the very basis for its existence. The […]

League of Postmasters Calls on Congress to Stop Closing Post Offices

and to Let USPS Pension Overpayments Prefund Retiree Health Benefits USPS Pension and Retiree Health Benefits Payments Should be Realigned; USPS Should Not Withdraw from the Federal Retiree Health Benefit Plan. ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 6, 2011— “Enough is enough. Congress must act. The time to act is now and the action to take is to […]