(November 23, 2014) No matter what Megan Brennan does as the nationâs first woman postmaster general, she is bound to make a lot of people unhappy. In 2015 Brennan, now chief operating officer of the U.S. Postal Service, will replace Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, who is retiring Feb. 1. Brennan will take over as the…
Federal employees and retirees will have some added health insurance protection in 2015 if disaster strikes. Beginning next year, many enrollees in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program wonât have to worry about paying separate (i.e., potentially more) out-of-pocket expenses for different benefits, like prescription drugs, the way some currently do. The out-of-pocket cap in…
BY MARK JAMISON News that Ron Johnson, the Tea Party favorite from Wisconsin, will be taking over as chair of the Senate committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs has caused an overwhelming sense of panic among progressives and postal workers. Johnson will control oversight of the Postal Service in the Senate. There may be…
A new poll shows that the people you’d least expect to use stamps are the ones who like the U.S. Postal Service most. By Marina Koren (November 21, 2014) It’s losing billions of dollars a year. It’s been hacked. It wants to stop delivering mail on Saturdays, but no one will let it. The United…
(November 21, 2014) Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) is retiring after 40 years of dedicated public service, including the championing of policies and legislation benefiting Social Security and Medicare recipients and their families. One of those pieces of legislation was the Strengthening Social Security Act (S.567), designed to immediately increase current benefits by about $800 annually,…
Cutbacks have been a fact of life for U.S. Postal Service operations across north central Ohio for several years now. Mail-processing operations left Mansfield for Cleveland in 2012. And small, rural post offices in Crawford County villages like Chatfield have seen their office hours drastically cut. Some mail delivery has suffered as a result, but…
(November 21, 2014) Western regional parcel carrier OnTrac today launched a delivery service in conjunction with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that offers large-volume retailers a fourth major business-to-consumer option in a region covering 70 million consumers. The service, called “DirectPost,” allows OnTrac to collect parcels from retailers and inject them deep into the postal…
OMAHA, Neb. âItâs about to get even busier at the post office. Thousands of holiday packages are moving through the postal service and inspectors know some of them will contain pot. âWeâve seen more marijuana packages lately because of the legalization in states such as Colorado,â said Dave Margritz, a U.S. Postal Service inspector. Margritz…
