The organizational tectonic plate is shifting as we explode deeper into the 21st century. With my wild imagination travel with me at the speed of thought as I get verbally-optical forecasting a future via Novus Postal Ordo Seclorum (New Postal World Order) in the year of hindsight 2020. My mind’s eye uncorrected is aligned with […]
Editorial by Ronald Williams, Jr. I’m taking a moment to use my pen as an exhaust pipe to vent my view about a controlled combustion inside this mail industry engine. If you don’t follow the PostalReporter news on a regular basis you might not understand the intended pun to follow in this article.
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 […]
Editorial by Ronald Williams, Jr. Recently at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing the USPS Postmaster General made statements to the effect that 65,000 non-bargaining employees get no COLA or step increases. He summarized that the pay-for-performance system has been around for 10 years and his experience is that managers like it because […]
By Dan Sullivan, APWU retired, Southwest Michigan Area Local There are plenty of reasons for union members to vote in favor of the tentative agreement between the American Postal Workers Union and the Postal Service. You can find most of those reasons on the general comment and editorial pages of 21cpw.com and in the […]
The following is an editorial written for PostalReporter.com by Federal Disability Attorney Robert R. McGill The distinction between a principle and a personal choice is tantamount to a starving man eyeing a delicious red apple; the apple itself may represent the perfection of all apples, and the very beauty of the fruit may be one […]
There is a value to small-town post offices that goes well beyond a profit-and-loss statement. The U.S. Postal Service, that quasi-private, misnamed, bureaucratic monster, doesn’t get that. Since it became a curious private/government hybrid, the concept of “service” has been shunted aside by a drive to be a profit-making enterprise. Benjamin Franklin, the nation’s first […]
An exclusive Editorial to PostalReporter.com from Guy Nohrenberg Confessions of a Former Station Manager In days of double digit unemployment, where trillions of dollars of national debt mount, the leader of one of the largest civilian employers in the free world just up and declared that soon he’s retiring, because he can, with no reason given. […]