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Day: August 6, 2014
How Post Office Banking Could Help the Unbanked Without Congress
Late last month, postal banking progressed from policy circle rumblings to proposed legislation. Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) sponsored the Providing Opportunities for Savings, Transactions, and Lending (POSTAL) Act on July 23rd. This legislation would empower your local post office to provide both checking and savings accounts, offer small-dollar loans and prepaid “postal cards,” distribute money…
Retirement Claims Backlog Inches Back Up
The retirement claims backlog inched back up in July, after the Office of Personnel Management reduced the number of outstanding applications to its lowest point in years in June. OPM received 9,101 new retirement applications in July, over 1,000 more than expected. The backlog is now at 13,620 claims — 1,229 more claims than in…
Reply from U.S. Senator Pat Toomey on Postal Reform Legislation
August 6, 2014 Dear Mr. Zelznick, Thank you for contacting me about the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). I appreciate hearing from you. I value knowing your views about reforms at USPS. As you may know, during the 112th Congress, the Senate considered postal reform when it debated the 21st Century Postal Service Act (S. 1789)….
The U.S. Postal Service’s Criminal Assault on the Middle Class, and the Illusion of American Justice
This is What’s Happening to the American Middle Class, Compliments of the U.S. Postal Service. Wake Up, America!!! Thousands of people have been following the story of Ms. JoAnn Snow’s pursuit of justice within the Los Angeles District of the United States Postal Service. This woman was literally being forced to work for free, as…
Where are Article 12 Notices?
At APWU.org the last withholding/excessing update for the Southern Region is May 2012; for the Northeast Region the last update is December 2013. The Eastern Region has no Article 12 notices at all. The Central and Western Regions have no new updates since the June 30th announcement. If the APWU wants to mobilize members and…
D.C. Roundtable – August 6: Talk After-Dark Mail Delivery, The Postal Service Tomorrow
The D.C. region ranks as the worst in the nation for mail delivery after 5 p.m., which for one part-time Postal Service employee in Prince George’s County had a deadly consequence. Tonight Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton will hold a roundtable with Gerald A. Roane, Postmaster of the District of Columbia, to discuss mail delivery in D.C….