The Renfro Valley, KY, Village Post Office (VPO) set a record when it opened last month, just days after negotiations for the new location got underway. It began when Kentuckiana District Village Post Office Coordinator Nick Walker learned the Renfro Valley Post Office was closing, which would have left the historic town with no postal…
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — The U.S. Postal Service is nearing the end of a two-year process to determine a reduction of retail-service hours at 246 rural post office locations throughout Alabama. As part of the plan that will conclude in September, the agency has scheduled community meetings from June 26 through July 16 concerning the final…
Web News Article #: 121-14 June 19, 2014 – The California Teachers Association and several other labor organizations have joined the Stop Staples campaign. In a letter to Staples CEO Ronald L. Sargent and Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe, the CTA urged them to abandon the program that established postal counters in the office-supply stores…
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA â Have you recently graduated from high school and are wondering, now what? The Postal Service is hiring and currently has over 200 job openings in the Bay Area. They also have job openings in many locations in California and nationwide. While mail volume has declined, a large number of employees have recently…
âThe situation now, as you can see, is fairly precarious. When you have roughly $4 billion of cash, and over $100 billion in liabilities, it doesnât take a genius to figure out weâre in a financial crisis.â âUSPS Chief Financial Officer Joseph Corbett, Wall Street Journal online edition, June 18, 2014 June 18, 2014âPoor Joe…
ISSUED BY OMAR M. GONZALEZ APWU WESTERN REGIONAL COORDINATOR Click Here for ELECTRONIC EDITION [pdf] In the 2014 Summer Edition: POSTAL SERVICE GEARING UP FOR CONTRACT TALKS Benefits and Leave To Be On Table? LIGHTS OUT A Sinister Postal Plot Critical Issues Still Backlogged National Issues Backlogged As Well GOP PLANS TO MAKE P.O. ROADKILL Highway…
