NALC and USPS agree to new JARAP The National Association of Letter Carriers has entered into a new Joint Alternate Route Adjustment Process (JARAP) with the United States Postal Service for 2011. There are three documents that must be read in conjunction to fully understand the JARAP 2011 process. The memorandum of understanding M-01746, the […]
Decision from the United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, March 31, 2011 The accommodation requested by Harrell that he be given every Saturday as a scheduled day off would have violated the CBA, and the USPS was therefore not required under Title VII to grant Harrell’s request. The district court granted summary judgment in […]
Anti-union forces are using every angle they can find in their attempts to weaken the labor movement—even counting votes that don’t exist. This week, Rep. John Mica (R-FL) quietly slipped an amendment into a routine Federal Aviation Administration bill that would turn back the clock on union rights. Mica’s amendment would count any railroad or […]
From a PostalReporter reader: Name withheld upon request from withheld to Lucille Caldwell date Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:17 AM subject PSE’s Health Insurance Did you notice this unusual health insurance provision in the proposed USPS-APWU Tentative National Agreement, buried on pages 173 to 174? The Postal Service is dangling this as an incentive […]
USPS OIG Report: Management Advisory – Benchmarking Mail Distribution to Carriers A few excerpts: The Postal Service and industry carriers are similar in that individuals perform some sorting of volumes for delivery, load their own vehicles, and assume additional delivery points when a colleague is absent or mail volumes require it. However, the Postal Service […]
APWU President Cliff Guffey has been asked to testify about the union’s tentative Collective Bargaining Agreement before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, whose powerful chairman has publicly condemned the new agreement and said it is too generous to postal employees. Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) said the April 5 hearing will “examine the […]
A New Joint Alternate Route Adjustment Process (JARAP) is coming out. The JARAP is an agreement between USPS and NALC to jointly evaluate and adjust routes to as near as eight hours as possible. A few highlights of the meeting: A new agreement will be announced on Wednesday. It will be called JARAP 2011. It […]
In 2008 — the last time Americans faced a spike in the cost of gasoline — the Postal Service launched a television ad to let customers know that unlike the competition, USPS wasn’t going to add surcharges to its pricing to offset rocketing fuel charges. Today, with uncertainty still surrounding fuel costs, USPS has brushed […]
Mail volumes expected to decline by more than 40 percent by 2020; digital mail, delivered to a secure online mailbox, to become important new revenue stream for global posts LONDON; March 30, 2011 – Expanding its line of postal services, Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced it will enable postal agencies worldwide to offer digital mail […]
Agreement Further Expands Bill Delivery Options for 3i Infotech’s Corporate Clients, Addresses Consumer Desire for Digital Postal Mail Aggregation Edison, NJ and Los Angeles, CA – March 30, 2011 – 3i Infotech, a global information technology and business process outsourcing (BPO) company, and Zumbox, the leader in digital postal mail services, announced today a partnership […]