April 1, 2015 Last week I wrote a post about the Postal Service’s new employee survey, Postal Pulse. The Pulse replaces the Voice of the Employee (VOE), which the Postal Service has been using for the past 17 years. The Pulse is now being administered to over 600,000 postal workers, and the Postmaster General is…
How do you get the attention of the president of Harvard University? A full-page attack ad in a student newspaper will probably do it. The American Postal Workers Union is taking out an advertisement (see below) in the Harvard Crimson later this week telling readers that president Drew Faust is “smearing Harvard’s good name” by sitting…
Web News Article #: 070-2015 04/01/2015 – Stop Staples gained an endorsement from supporters with a lot of clout. The American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA) may be small in numbers, but it is big in influence. The school administrators they represent select where they purchase school supplies – and from now on it will…
Web News Article #: 071-2015 04/01/2015 – APWU President Mark Dimondstein appeared on The Bill Press Show on TawkrTV on April 1, where he discussed the negative influence of “dark money” on our politics, and the phony USPS financial crisis, postal banking and more. (@ approximately 2:40:00) via Dimondstein Appears on the Bill Press Show…
The Postal Service is testing redesigned uniforms with a focus on evaluating the performance, functionality and safety features of various winter gear. Approximately 2,000 employees are participating in cold-weather apparel tests in Boston, Houston, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh. USPS hopes to test warm-weather apparel in other cities in the spring. “Uniforms are a marker of personal,…
April 1, 2015 The Postal Service uses over 180,000 vehicles for delivery operations. Most of these vehicles are fueled regularly by a carrier during the day while on his or her assigned delivery route. Each vehicle has a fleet credit card the carrier uses to pay at the gas station. Fleet credit cards are managed…
In resolution of this matter, the parties are in agreement that: 1) Employees entitled to remedy are those Maintenance Craft employees who had their eligible MSS (RMSS) rating changed to ineligible on or about August of 2009. These 671 employees shall each receive a lump sum payment of $2,950 less applicable deductions. Such payments to…
via Cape Girardeau mail processing center to end operations – KFVS12 News & Weather Cape Girardeau, Carbondale, Poplar Bluff. More info: https://www.21cpw.com/cape-girardeau-delayed-mail
