USPS IG says Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA) has become a ‘lucrative retirement plan’ The USPS Office of the Inspector General David C. Williams prepared testimony for April 13, 2011 hearing before the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy Committee on Oversight and Government Reform House of Representatives on “Federal Employees’ […]
Dennis Ross, a Tea-Party backed candidate for Congress admitted during a Washington Post interview earlier this year that he knows little about the federal workforce. For Republicans on the subcommittee in particular, this meant significant reductions in the USPS workforce. Congressman Dennis Ross, the chairman of the subcommittee, said in his opening remarks to the […]
From the National Association Of Postal Supervisors January 2011 The Business Case for Continuing Six-Day Delivery Since March, 2010 the Postal Service has promoted several cost-saving measures, including reducing the number of delivery days from the current six-days per week to a five-day delivery structure. The National Association of Postal Supervisors believes that the Postal […]
APWU President Cliff Guffey is urging the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, also known as the Deficit Commission, to reject recommendations in its Dec. 1 report [PDF] regarding the Postal Service, which he said were based on inaccuracies. “The most troubling example of these inaccuracies is the use of the word ‘bailout’ to […]
The Postmaster General won the public relations battle on March 2 in regard to five day delivery when he announced proposed changes to the postal service over the coming decade, changes that appeared as the main story on all major news networks that evening. He continues to enjoy the advantage of a well planned orchestrated […]