By Ian Smith – April 5, 2016 The Office of Personnel Management got a break last month from the massive wave of new retirement applications that had flooded the agency in the first two months of the year. OPM âonlyâ received 5,741 new applications in March, down significantly from the five figure numbers that rolled in…
Web News Article #: 73-2016 04/05/2016 – The results are in: 96 percent of those who responded to a survey conducted by Costco, the discount retailer, said they oppose privatization of the U.S. Postal Service. In February, Costco Connection magazine ran a survey, âShould the Postal Service be Privatized?â The magazine included a pro-privatization article…
Web News Article #: 72-2016 04/05/2016 – APWU President Mark Dimondstein is encouraging APWU members to actively support the National Association of Letter Carriersâ 24th annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, slated for Saturday, May 14. âI urge every APWU member to make a donation and help the cause,â he said. âI hope APWU locals…
Background This management advisory presents the results of our review of delayed mail data in the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), which is a repository for U.S. Postal Service data. The Postal Serviceâs Web Mail Condition Reporting System provides and transfers delayed mail data to the EDW Network Operations Data Mart (EDW-NODM). The EDW-NODM is one…
By David Williams – April 04, 2016 The United States Postal Service (USPS) is in trouble. The USPS has lost $35.6 billion in the last four years, their unfunded liabilities equal $114 billion, and a report released this week showed that the mail is late more often today than it has been at any point…
April 4, 2016 (RARC-WP-16-007) While post offices sold $21 billion worth of money orders in fiscal year 2015, money order sales have plunged 60 percent from their peak in 2000. About 1,200 high volume post offices grew money order sales by at least 10 percent in the past 3 years, showing that improving sales is…
Our local has received a heavy workload from our APO’s and RMPO’s. Our stewards are accumulating a heavy workload in representing these offices. The big problem is that they are doing a lot of work off the clock and racking up mileage on their vehicles trying to investigate and process grievances. Although a lot is…
Are you interested in securing postal facilities and protecting employees and customers? The Postal Inspection Service will accept applications for Postal Police officers from Monday, April 4, through Friday, April 8. Officers are assigned to processing and distribution centers and Post Offices across the nation and provide perimeter security and escort high-value mail shipments. Officers…
