By Jeremy Lazarus – April 25, 2017 The U.S. Postal Service is continuing to shake up the management of postal stations in the Richmond area as the fallout continues from a scandal over overtime pay, sources have told the Free Press. In the past week, at least five station managers or carrier supervisors at area…
Via John P. Richards, President â APWU Pittsburgh Area Retiree Chapter SOLD OUT? The retiree establishment within the Union is abuzz over the administration’s embracing and supporting HR 756, known as the Postal Service Reform Act. This law, if enacted in it’s current draft, will drastically change our health ‘insurance’ delivery system. Several of many…
Living near a shopping mall used to be important to a lot of people, but as online commerce continues to grow, retail meccas are losing their cachet. Instead, many consumers are now drawn to areas near warehouses that can quickly process their online orders. âItâs shopping as infrastructure,â Adie Tomer, a Brookings Institution scholar, told…
Background The U.S. Postal Service has a surface transportation network that, in fiscal year (FY) 2016, consisted of almost 16,000 supplier-operated highway contract routes (HCR) and about 7,600 Postal Service-owned mail transport vehicles. This fleet makes USPS one of the largest users of diesel fuel in the U.S., purchasing about 251 million gallons in FY…
The Postal Service issued its first Forever stamp 10 years ago this month. To help mark the milestone, âThe listâ looks at a few Forever facts you might not have known. First Forever. The first Forever stamp, issued April 12, 2007, featured the Liberty Bell. Forever favored. Forever stamps were initially intended to ease the…
Web News Article #: 36-2017 04/24/2017 – Arbitrator Goldberg ruled that the Postal Service failed to make a good faith effort to return 362 administrative and technical jobs to the Clerk Craft. The arbitration award was issued on April 21, 2017 and settles a long-standing dispute over the Clerk Craft Jobs Memorandum of Understanding in…
By Robin Y. Richardson – April 22, 2017 MARSHALL â A federal jury in Marshall has ruled in favor of a Kilgore mail carrier in her discrimination lawsuit, determining she was fired in November 2012 for reporting a black supervisor was mistreating white employees. The mail carrier, Kimberly Cox, was awarded $250,000 in damages for…
Background Delivering high-quality service and providing excellent customer experiences are performance outcome goals the U.S. Postal Service has established to measure corporate strategy success and continuous improvement efforts. Mail delivery and retail services present challenges in large populous areas, such as the Bronx, where many people live in multi-family buildings and high-rise apartments. Owners or…
