The Postal Service is continually improving efficiencies by making better use of space, staffing,equipment and transportation to process the nation’s mail. Improving efficiencies has become increasingly important, given the significant reduction in the amount of First-Class Mail that enters the postal system. In fact, since 2006, First-Class Mail has declined by 25 percent. During this […]
Proposes Comprehensive Changes to Nationwide Infrastructure WASHINGTON — Faced with a massive nationwide infrastructure that is no longer financially sustainable, the U.S. Postal Service today proposed sweeping changes designed to save the organization up to $3 billion a year by cutting its network of processing facilities by over half and adjusting service standards. Proposals under […]
USPS proposes comprehensive network changes- Stand-up talk given to postal employees The following are excerpts from a letter sent to APWU President Cliff Guffey via Randy Zelznick, 21st Century Postal Worker This letter is an Informational notice of the Postal Service’s Intent to conduct Area Mail Processing (AMP) feasibility studies, at the sites listed on […]
Miami Valley post office employees took to the picket line Wednesday afternoon, after learning Dayton’s mail processing plant could soon close in an effort to cut costs. The workers carried signs that read, “SOS. Save our service. Don’t cancel us out”. Jeanette Carlton, President of the Dayton Chapter of the American Postal Workers Union, said […]
eReassign 21 Day Posting The USPS Bay-Valley District released the following information Clerk Craft Reassignment Opportunities The U.S. Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union have agreed to provide expanded opportunities for clerk craft employees in installations in which there is clerk craft excessing outside of the installation. Full time clerks in those installations […]
A Postal Customer was told not to bring her packages to the post office until after 3:30 p.m. From PostalReporter.com reader: ….a customer at the Swissvale Post Office (prn: Pennsylvania) videotaped a manager who was totally disrespectful and rude (as the letter carriers there can attest to). The Manager at the counter is (redacted by […]
One Charlotte, North Carolina, neighborhood is saying goodbye to the mail carrier they’ve come to know and love for almost a decade. He’s being re-assigned because of budget cuts.
Maryville Daily Forum: U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, whose 6th Congressional District includes Nodaway County, released a statement Monday acknowledging the need for the U.S. Postal Service to make fiscal reforms but urging that such changes preserve a high level of mail service in rural areas.
Calls on Office of Congressional Ethics to Review the Congressman’s Repeated Use of Public Position to Promote Private Financial Interests Date: Sept. 13, 2011 Washington, D.C. – Citing numerous, reported instances of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA-49) using his public position to advance his private financial interests, American Family Voices today filed a complaint with the […]
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona announced that a federal grand jury in Tucson returned a 12-count indictment against former Postal Service Officer Anna Cecilia Miranda for passing forged and altered U.S. Postal Service money orders after knowingly and unlawfully stealing those money orders from Pirtleville, Ariz., Post Office customers.