Most mornings, the first semi-trucks arrive at 8 to drop off the mail at Camp Foster, a Marine Corps base in Okinawa, Japan. Sgt. Montonio Kenan prefers to say the trucks deliver morale. “Postal to me is a morale booster,” Kenan recently told DVIDS, a military news site. “I have deployed and have seen how…
Dear Mr. Zelznick: Thank you for taking the time to contact me about H.R. 756, the Postal Service Reform Act. I appreciate hearing from you. Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah introduced H.R. 756 on January 1, 2017. The Postal Service Reform Act would establish a Postal Service Health Benefits Program within the Federal Employees Health…
Postmaster General and CEO Megan J. Brennan and Finance and Planning Vice President Luke Grossmann hosted a telephone/Web conference call to discuss the financial results in more detail. The call at 9:00 am ET on May 11, 2018, was open to news media and all other interested parties. Click Here for PDF Press Release –…
The Postal Service is reminding managers and employees about flag requirements for three holidays this month: • Peace Officers Memorial Day, which honors police officers who lost their lives in the line of duty, is Tuesday, May 15. USPS facilities are required to fly the flag at half-staff this day. To fly the flag at…
Via John P. Richards, President – Pittsburgh Area Retiree Chapter of the APWU: Excerpt: In addition to her postal career, Charlotte has had a full and responsible Union career as a long time Executive Board officer dating back through the 197Os. During that tenure she served as trustee, recording secretary, shop steward Chief Grievance Officer,…
The Postal Service is reminding employees of the differences between Election Mail and Political Mail. Election Mail refers to mail that allows individuals to participate in the voting process, such as ballots for domestic or international delivery, while Political Mail consists of mailing from registered political candidates, parties and related organizations. There are different tagging…
In its five-year strategic plan, the U.S. Postal Service emphasizes the importance of regularly maintaining its facilities. In fact, it outlines an initiative to standardize, upgrade, and realign maintenance operations across field offices to reduce operating expenses. However, the Postal Service only established and tracked maintenance optimization planned savings at the national level and not…
May 7, 2018 (RARC-WP-18-009) When Postal Service employees retire under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS), somebody has to pay for their pensions. For people who used to work for the former Post Office Department and then later worked for the Postal Service, the federal government and the Postal Service split pension costs. Under the…
