USPS: Mgmt’s new eight-week course goes beyond traditional training

Postal Service managers are strengthening their leadership skills through a new program that goes beyond traditional training courses. The eight-week Management Essentials course is required for new managers in processing, maintenance and customer service operations. USPS introduced the program earlier this year, part of a broader effort to provide employees with more professional development opportunities….

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USPS: Package business continues growing, ‘NBR’ reports (video)

The Postal Service’s fast-growing package business is winning customers of all stripes, “Nightly Business Report” told viewers this week. Residential customers are applauding the organization’s efforts to offer new delivery options, while more business customers are turning to USPS to ship their products, the TV newsmagazine reported. “Packages are our future. They’re just continuing to…

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Rep. Richmond and Mayor Landrieu fight planned shutdown of New Orleans mail processing facility

By Bruce Alpert – May 14, 2015 WASHINGTON — Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-New Orleans, is lashing out at the U.S. Postal Service for what he calls “illogical” and unsubstantiated justification for the planned shuttering of a mail processing facility on Loyola Avenue in New Orleans and giving the work to an existing facility in Baton…

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