USPS OIG Blog: Approved Shipper Approval

If you want to expand your business by partnering with someone to sell your products or services in another location, you’d want that person to represent you appropriately and abide by your practices, right? In short, you’d want your partner to uphold your brand. The U.S. Postal Service isn’t any different. Through its Approved Shipper…

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USPS to deploy new transportation monitoring application July 11-Sep 30

USPS will replace TIMESWeb, the application used to monitor highway contract routes and postal vehicle transportation, later this year. SVWeb, the new application, will incorporate all transportation data into one database and offer full visibility of the transportation network and container movement. The application will be available to all processing operations sites, including non-scanning sites….

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USPS-APWU arbitration decision puts moratorium on plant consolidations and outsourcing retail

July 11, 2016 The Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union have a new contract. Last week, the arbitrator on the case, Stephen Goldberg, issued his decision and award, thus ending a two-year dispute. The new contract provides protections against layoffs for all career employees (who were on the rolls as of July 8),…

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APWU 2015-2018 New CBA Highlights and Timelines

Via Sam Wood, President – Southwest Florida Area Local / APWU: I have taken some time to create a two page spreadsheet with both Highlights and a Timeline of the New 2015-2018 APWU Collective Bargaining Agreement. There were both positives and negatives in this contract. POSITIVES: 1) PSE’s as there are: A. Six wage Increases…

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