(U.S. SENATE)-Senator Jon Tester today met incoming Postmaster General Megan Brennan for the first time to discuss strengthening the Postal Service and the need to improve delivery standards in rural states like Montana. Tester emphasized the Postal Service’s delivery standards have become a disaster for USPS and for the Montana families that rely on the…
Published January 30, 2015 • By Command Security Herndon, VA, January 30, 2015 – Command Security Corporation (NYSE MKT:MOC) today announced that on January 29, 2015, the U.S. Postal Service (“USPS”) issued a stay of the transition of the two contracts recently awarded to Command Security Corporation (“Command Security” or the “Company”) pending the resolution…
Apparently, the reduction in first-class mail volume is hilarious to USPS management. Last week, The Onion, a satirical news site, published an article about a new line of commemorative stamps honoring “Americans who still use the US Postal Service,” mocking those who “still” send birthday cards or pay bills by mail. The Postal Service’s press…
Web News Article #: 018-2015 01/29/2015 – Several APWU locals were unpleasantly surprised recently when packages they ordered from an online office-supply website were delivered by people wearing Staples’ uniforms. The Quill Corporation is a subsidiary of Staples, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at their website, which has no mention of the affiliation…
NPC Members, as you know, I have been arranging a visit to Cuba by full-time American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO officials (national, state and local officers) from April 25, 2015 through May 02, 2015. We are extending this invitation to full-time officers from other unions to join us as well. Full-time is defined as a…
Web News Article #: 017-2015 01/28/2015 – Just weeks into the 114th Congress, a new bipartisan coalition of eight U.S. representatives is taking a stand for prompt, reliable mail service. On Jan. 27, Rep. Dave McKinley (R-WV) and Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY) introduced House Resolution 54, which expresses the sense of the House of Representatives…
Web News Article #: 016-2015 01/27/2015 – According to USPS statistics, approximately 320 Motor Vehicle Craft employees have been converted to career status as a result of residual vacancies since a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Filling Residual Vacancies was signed in March 2014 and a set of Questions and Answers on the issue was…
Web News Article #: 015-2015 01/27/2015 – With contract negotiations set to begin on Feb. 19, the APWU has been busy preparing for bargaining and for winning support from the American people. “Contract negotiations are always contentious, and this year will be no exception,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. “The Postal Service’s manufactured financial crisis…
