USPS OIG Report: Retail & Customer Service Operations Efficiency

We made five recommendations to address the issues identified in the report, and Postal Service management agreed with all five.

Postal Bulletin: A U.S. Passport is Your Ticket to Global Adventure

The United States Postal Service® makes it convenient to apply for a passport with the Retail Customer Appointment Scheduler (RCAS) tool.

President Biden commutes man in Liberty County post office murder

Prisoners given commuted sentences will no longer face the death penalty. Their sentences will be reclassified to life without the possibility of parole.

Destruction of the Bid Job in post-consolidation, losing facilities.

They are destroying the traditional FTR bid jobs.

NLRB Judge rules USPS must provide information on probationary employees [07-CA-301929]

The NLRB Administrative Law Judge found otherwise and agreed with the APWU that the information was “presumptively” relevant thus rendering a decision that the USPS’s denial of information was violative of the Act.

APWU Class Action Grievance Arbitration Award on Manual Bidding Issues

The grievance is sustained.

USPS OIG Report: Bank Secrecy Act Compliance Program

We reviewed 200 money order transactions for compliance with BSA recordkeeping and reporting requirements, interviewed employees who sell or manage the sale of money orders at 10 post offices, and reviewed fiscal year (FY) 2023 BSA training completion status for applicable employees.