Chairman Carper, Ranking Member Coburn Call on Senate Appropriations Committee to Oppose Proposed Moratorium; Support Comprehensive Postal Reform

Posted on September 8, 2014September 8, 2014 by 21cpw

Monday, September 8, 2014 WASHINGTON – Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) sent a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee late Friday to caution the Members about implementing a moratorium on postal facility closures and urge support for the bipartisan, comprehensive the Postal Reform…

One Map to Show Where USPS Will Cut 7,000 Jobs

Posted on September 8, 2014September 8, 2014 by 21cpw

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has endorsed a proposal to reverse plans by the U.S. Postal Service to close an additional 82 facilities in 2015. Reid’s was the 51st signature on an Aug. 14 letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee, meaning a majority of the legislative body now supports the effort to delay by…

OIG: USPS managers need to better monitor refunds in Eastern area

Posted on September 8, 2014September 8, 2014 by 21cpw

(September 8, 2014) Postal Service managers in the Eastern region aren’t monitoring refunds at post offices even though they increased by millions over the last few years, an Aug. 27 USPS inspector general report says. For 2011 through 2013, post office refunds in the East increased by $2 million–from $6.8 million to $8.8 million–while associated…

Inside the Retirement Community for Mail Carriers

Posted on September 8, 2014September 8, 2014 by 21cpw

Nestled in a marshy area about an hour south of Orlando, Florida, is the Nalcrest retirement community, which boasts tennis courts, an Olympic-sized swimming pool and a 15-square-mile lake for fishing and boating. It’s no different from any other retirement community beloved by snowbirds in central Florida — except that virtually everyone who lives at…

USPS OIG: Calling All Revenue-Generation Ideas

Posted on September 8, 2014September 8, 2014 by 21cpw

You can’t cut your way to prosperity. That seems to be the message coming out of many of the comments we received on our recent blog about the next phase of network consolidation. So, if cutting alone isn’t the answer, what are your ideas for revenue growth? Five years ago, we ran a blog post…