Documents from Postal Regulatory Commission Chairwoman Ruth Y. Goldway To Senator Thomas Carper in response to his questions on her travel: The Honorable Thomas R. Carper Chairman Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information,Federal Services and International Security U.S. Senate Washington D.C. 20510 Dear Chairman Carper, Pursuant to your letter of February 8, 2012, please […]
Mail Forwarding Program Made Easier Online WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service has added it’s extremely popular Premium Forwarding Service to it’s suite of online products and services at usps.com. Previously only available at a Post Office, Premium Forwarding Service can now be accessed online using your USPS.com account. With Premium Forwarding Service you […]
Documents from the GameFly Court Case: Excerpts from the Respondents Brief: Petitioner GameFly is a company engaged in the online rental of video games. It distributes its rental games by mailing DVD’s to customers, who then return the DVD’s to GameFly in pre-addressed reply mailers. In 2009, it filed a complaint with the Commission under […]
BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER)– Postal workers and others are asking to save several smaller post offices and one distribution center in Maine from closing. Many people including United States Representative Michael Michaud rallied near the Bangor Post office. They want the United States Postal Service to cancel plans to close smaller post offices and to […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) today released an important update to its business plan for returning to profitability and long-term financial stability. While fundamentally consistent with the approach advanced by the Postal Service over the past year, the plan released today incorporates important refinements of financial projections and recommended legislative reforms. “The plan […]
The U.S. Postal Service may resort to early retirements and buyout offers as a way to slash its staff by 66,000 employees this year and another 51,000 next year. Combined, the planned cuts over the next two years amount to more than one-fifth the agency’s workforce. Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry said Wednesday […]
Feb. 16, 2012 WASHINGTON – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate subcommittee that oversees the U.S. Postal Service, released the following reaction to the announcement of the U.S. Postal Service’s most recent business plan: “Today the U.S. Postal Service provided members of Congress with an updated version of its business plan – […]
Postal Regulatory Commission finds process in need of fixes Washington, Feb 16 – Congressman Bill Owens (NY-23) joined over 100 of his colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives in asking Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe to place a moratorium on the USPS’s discontinuance process leading to post office and mail processing facility closures until […]
Feb. 16, 2012 — In response to the Postal Service’s proposal Thursday to reduce services in an effort to trim losses, the NALC issued the following statement: The National Association of Letter Carriers will study the Postal Service’s new business plan in more detail over the next few days, but any plan that calls for […]
In a meeting with the APWU on Feb. 13, postal officials notified the APWU that they plan to begin consolidating mail processing facilities as soon as the moratorium on consolidations ends. The moratorium is set to expire on May 15. Top-level postal managers were unable – or unwilling – to specify which mail processing centers […]