April 9, 2015 Duluth, MN (NNCNOW.com) — Thursday evening postal workers at the Duluth Mail Processing Center were told they could keep their jobs beyond a government set deadline for closure. That is also good news for postal patrons here in the Northland. The U.S. Postal Service was to begin consolidating the Duluth facility this…
April 9, 2015 The Postal Service is proposing to change the way it measures the on-time service performance of First Class Mail.  Instead of contracting a third-party to evaluate how long it takes for the mail to be delivered, the Postal Service wants to count the days itself.  The change requires the approval of the Postal…
ALEXANDRIA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a Complaint against the Postal Service alleging that it violated federal labor law by failing to bargain with the National Rural Letter Carriersâ Association (NRLCA) and provide information to the NRLCA concerning last yearâs massive Postal Service data breach. The Complaint, issued on March 31,…
Complaint over Cyber Intrusion Would Set Precedent For Immediate Release 04/08/2015 – WASHINGTON â In a first-of-its-kind complaint, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has cited the Postal Service for failing to bargain with the APWU over last yearâs massive data security breach. The incident, which was revealed to the union and employees in mid-November,…
April 7, 2015 The Postal Service’s chief regulator hopes for financial solvency for the troubled agency, stability of service for rate-payers, and co-operation among a new set of leaders in Washington to effect the changes that can achieve it. Excerpt URBANSKI: You sat on an interesting panel recently at the Brookings Institution, and this many…
Tracy Goldizen – April 7, 2015 OTTUMWA â When I was a kid, I spent hours sorting baseball cards. There was no shortage of them to go through â my dad was and remains and avid card collector. “First sort, second sort, third sort” is a running family joke. But as Patrick Shelby and I…
[maxgallery id=”35076″]Shirley Dunaway, postal activist, and John Dennie, a long-time postal activist and organizer, speak out against the deal cut by former Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe with Staples to allow all 1500 Staples stores to set up mini-stations not staffed by trained postal employees. This is a highly risky proposition, not only deliberately undermining the…
By Bill Brickley – April 7, 2015 Excerpt: When speaking on Postal Reform a month ago in Florida he blasted the Postal Service: âThere are two sectors in the economy. The productive sector: you. And the non-productive sector: the people who live in Washington. They donât make anything. They canât even run the post office….
