USPS: Ask before removing postal relics

USPS is reminding employees of the proper procedure for disposing of historical postal equipment and documents. If you no longer want to keep postal artifacts at your workplace, send photos and a description of each item to the Postal Service historian’s office at phistory@usps.gov to obtain guidance. Artifacts should not be sent to USPS headquarters…

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NALC: Bipartisan legislation introduced to repeal USPS pre-funding mandate

On April 28, Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Tom Reed (R-NY), Xochitl Torres Small (D-NM), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced the USPS Fairness Act (H.R. 2382) which would repeal the mandate that USPS “pre-fund” decades’ worth of health benefits for its future retirees, enacted through the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) of 2006. As letter…

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USPS OIG: Tackling Delivery Delays

More packages and fewer letters to more addresses each year. That’s the daily drill for U.S. Postal Service city carriers and city carrier assistants (CCA), the non-career carriers who make up a growing segment of the workforce. As we’ve noted in past blogs, customers are feeling negative effects of this changing mail mix. Complaints of…

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