Alliance for Retired Americans Friday Alert – October 3, 2014

Thousands of Alliance Members Join Tele-Town Hall Calls with Candidates More than 6,000 Alliance members dialed in Monday night on a tele-town hall conference call with Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), with several of the activists asking Sen. Hagan questions. Seniors advocate Jon “Bowzer” Bauman of the musical group Sha Na Na and North Carolina AFL-CIO…

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USPS Holiday/Seasonal Job Opportunities: Louisville, KY – Quad Cities, IL – Cleveland, OH – Waterloo, IA

Postal service needs 130 seasonal workers in Louisville, KY – Courier-Journal.com (October 3, 2014) The U.S. Postal Service intends to hire about 130 seasonal employees at the Louisville Processing and Distribution Facility, 1420 Gardiner Lane, to handle expected heavy holiday mail volumes through December.The positions include “casuals” who will load and move bulk mail (bags,…

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(AUDIO) APWU President Dimondstein Appeared on Radio Oct. 3

10/03/2014 – APWU President Mark Dimondstein spoke with Bill Fletcher on his radio program Arise! on WPFW FM in Washington, DC, on Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, at 9 a.m. EDT. [codepeople-html5-media-player id=1]   via APWU President Appeared on Radio Oct. 3 | APWU.    

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Boston’s South Station-Postal Service deal is long overdue

Rain or snow, the Postal Service always delivers. But not this time. The state wants to take over the post office’s Fort Point Channel property to make way for a $1 billion expansion of South Station, which sits next door. The federal agency won’t budge, saying the state isn’t offering a rich enough deal for…

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USPS OIG: Highway Contract Route Electronic Payment Process

Audit Report – SM-MA-14-006 – 09/30/2014 Background Highway Contract Routes (HCRs) transport mail between post offices or other designated points and make up the largest group of transportation contracts in the U.S. Postal Service. Annual (regular) HCR contracts are competitively awarded and generally have fixed prices, with automatic prorated monthly recurring payments. Between April 1,…

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USPS OIG: Voyager Card Program for Highway Contract Routes

 — Pooling Policy Concerns and Related Overpayments Audit Report – NO-MA-14-006 – 09/29/2014 Background Since 2005, the U.S. Postal Service has been providing Highway Contract Route (HCR) suppliers with Voyager fleet transaction cards from U.S. Bank Voyager Fleet Systems, Inc. to purchase fuel (known as the HCR Voyager Card Program). In fuel year July 1, 2012–June…

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(VIDEO) How to Avoid Costly Mistakes Filling Out Your TSP Forms

The board that administers the Thrift Savings Plan has some simple but important advice for successfully submitting forms to make changes to TSP accounts. In a new YouTube video, the TSP board offers five tips to help federal employees complete TSP requests, including those for withdrawals, and to do so correctly, “the first time.” That…

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(VIDEO) Financial District Residents Upset As Mail Box Bins Crowd Sidewalks

(October 2, 2014) NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Amid the hustle and bustle on Financial District streets, a different type of neighbor is taking up space. Some walk right by the empty, white mail bins without a second thought. “Half the things in this city I don’t notice,” one passerby said. Others, like Financial District resident…

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