The APWU of Florida Spring Seminar will be held March 12-14, 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Riverfront Hotel in Jacksonville, FL. APWU Officers, Stewards and Members from states outside of Florida are welcome. Our seminar will include: Comprehensive Steward Training, a full day Editors Workshop conducted by PPA President Tony Carobine, Preparing for Local Negotiations,…
Published January 30, 2015 • By Command Security Herndon, VA, January 30, 2015 – Command Security Corporation (NYSE MKT:MOC) today announced that on January 29, 2015, the U.S. Postal Service (“USPS”) issued a stay of the transition of the two contracts recently awarded to Command Security Corporation (“Command Security” or the “Company”) pending the resolution…
Apparently, the reduction in first-class mail volume is hilarious to USPS management. Last week, The Onion, a satirical news site, published an article about a new line of commemorative stamps honoring “Americans who still use the US Postal Service,” mocking those who “still” send birthday cards or pay bills by mail. The Postal Service’s press…
Web News Article #: 015-2015 01/27/2015 – With contract negotiations set to begin on Feb. 19, the APWU has been busy preparing for bargaining and for winning support from the American people. “Contract negotiations are always contentious, and this year will be no exception,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. “The Postal Service’s manufactured financial crisis…
During winter storms and other bad weather, USPS posts timely information online about Post Office and plant closures and service disruptions. USPS Service Alerts is updated frequently, with information on specific facilities and ZIP Codes. For example, as of 10 a.m., Jan. 27, the site reported the Northeast blizzard had caused the closure of facilities…
(January 27, 2015) When the Postal Service closes a large mail processing plant, it doesn’t just impact postal workers. There can also be significant indirect effects. Other people lose their jobs, business activity slows, tax revenues decline. The loss of postal jobs thus has a multiplier effect that ripples through the economy of the entire…
Audit Report – MI-AR-15-001 – 01/23/2015 Background The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) initiated a U.S. Postal Service-wide series of audits to review the Postal Service’s use of data. These audits included discussions and analyses of the data the deputy postmaster general and the executive vice presidents use. The Postal Service depends…
Web News Article #: 014-2015 01/26/2015 – When Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe retires at the end of the week, he’ll get a retirement package of more than $4 million. Not bad for a “civil servant.” But in his controversial farewell address to reporters at the National Press Club on Jan. 6, Donahoe made clear that…
