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		<title>PRC Issues Order Denying Postmasters Complaint Over Management Of Post Offices</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/12/02/prc-issues-order-denying-postmasters-complaint-over-management-of-post-offices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) issued a decision to deny a complaint by NAPUS and the League of Postmasters to renew an expedited complaint or a request a stay to prevent the Postal Service’s Final Rule from going into effect on December 1, 2011.  The PRC did grant the Postmaster associations the right to re-file [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postmasters To Manage More Than One Post Office In Changes To USPS Manuals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[USPS revises manuals and handbooks: Employee and Labor Rela­tions Manual (ELM), Handbook PO-101, Administrative Support Manual (ASM) and Postal Operations Man­ual (POM) ELM Revision: Management of Post Offices by Postmasters Effective December 1, 2011, Employee and Labor Rela­tions Manual (ELM), Part 113, Definitions, is revised to clar­ify that a postmaster may be responsible for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NAPUS To Request Fact Finding on USPS 2011-2015 Pay Package Offer</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/11/16/napus-to-request-fact-finding-on-usps-2011-2015-pay-package-offer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USPS Issues Final Decision on Postmaster Pay Package</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/11/09/usps-issues-final-decision-on-postmaster-pay-package/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postmaster to PRC: Financial Challenges That USPS Face Today Are Manufactured</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/09/19/postmaster-to-prc-financial-challenges-that-usps-face-today-are-manufactured/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NAPUS: We Must Keep Postmasters in Charge of Post Offices</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/09/13/napus-we-must-keep-postmasters-in-charge-of-post-offices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of Monday morning in San Juan, 568 Postmasters were registered for NAPUS’ 107th National Convention; total registration stood at 1,116. President Bob Rapoza welcomed everyone back to San Juan: 28 years ago, NAPUS held its first convention here. He thanked Convention Chair Reinaldo Ruiz and the Postmasters of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>League of Postmasters Calls on Congress to Stop Closing Post Offices</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/09/07/league-of-postmasters-calls-on-congress-to-stop-closing-post-offices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/09/07/league-of-postmasters-calls-on-congress-to-stop-closing-post-offices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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— &#8220;Enough is enough. Congress must act. The time to act is now and the action to take is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postmasters allege USPS closing POs on Saturday to &#8216;skew&#8217; numbers to support 5-day delivery</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/08/27/postmasters-allege-usps-closing-pos-on-saturday-to-skew-numbers-to-support-5-day-delivery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 06:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 40 postmasters from throughout Northwest Missouri gathered at the Old School House in Cameron, Mo., to discuss the proposed closings, what the postal service is doing wrong and what they suggest be done.  Unlike the public Postal Service meetings occurring throughout the state this month to discuss rural post office closings, the meeting consisted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postmaster Vacancy Closes Rural Post Office in Kansas</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/08/16/postmaster-vacancy-closes-rural-post-office-in-kansas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/08/16/postmaster-vacancy-closes-rural-post-office-in-kansas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marienthal, Kansas customers were told their post office boxes can be transferred to either Scott City (16 miles away)  or Leoti (8 miles away). &#8220;It is due to a lack of qualified personnel,&#8221; said Brian Sperry, a Denver-based spokesman for the U.S. Postal Service. &#8220;The review still is in progress at Marienthal. In fact, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USPS begins Pay Talks with Postmasters today</title>
		<link>http://www.postalreporternews.net/2011/08/15/usps-begins-pay-talks-with-postmasters-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 27, 2010 LEAGUE and NAPUS jointly signed a letter asking that the OIG investigate the 2009 NPA process, specifically the suspected reduction of CORE scores to many Postmasters by higher level management. It was suspected that this unilateral reduction in scores without the immediate manager’s approval or input was driven by higher levels [...]]]></description>
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