USPS Maintenance Update: District and Plant Response Kits (4/13/20)

From: Vance Zimmerman <vzimmerman@apwu.org> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 10:17 AM To: Resident Officers Subject: maintenance update “Please share with plant and district leadership, operations, maintenance, and other personnel as needed. HQ Maintenance Operations in coordination with HQ Asset Management have developed two Response Kits in order to conduct the required cleaning procedures for facilities…

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USPS MTSC: Custodial Team Cleaning update (4/6/20)

Please share with plant management, operations, maintenance, and other personnel as needed. Due to staffing shortages resulting from influenza and coronavirus along with newly hired Labor Distribution Code (LDC) 38 Labor Custodians, HQ Maintenance Operations is authorizing a temporary option for Custodial Team Cleaning (CTC) Champions to conduct CTC training via ZOOM. If students are…

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USPS Mandatory Stand-up Talk: COVID-19 supplies — purchasing updates

If you need to reimburse employees for COVID-19 supplies they provided, use PS Form 2551, Non-Goods and Non-Services — Payment Authorization. It can be found by going to the Accounting home page on Blue and selecting the e-IWS Online Forms Toolkit. On the Toolkit page, scroll down to the PS Form 2551 Job Aid and…

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USPS ‘Sanitizing Stations’ at Philadelphia P&DC

These “Sanitizing Stations” began springing up this week on the workroom floor throughout the Philadelphia P&DC. At first, I thought this was some sort of joke.  But no, this is USPS Management doing it’s best to show the employees they are the agency’s most valuable asset. [Take note of the properties of the “cleaner” to…

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APWU Clerk NBA Turney: Thank you Custodians

“The COVID-19 pandemic presents a major challenge to our Union and our Nation, but it’s one I know we’ll get through together. There are so many heroes on the front lines. One that I want to mention is our APWU Custodians. Our custodians are doing extra to keep our offices clean. They are wiping down…

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USPS HQ Maintenance: Using Alcohol as a Disinfectant (3/13/20)

Due to the fact that many of the disinfectants listed in MMO-031-20 are either unavailable or in limited supply, rubbing alcohol can be used as an alternative. Topeka is in the process of procuring alcohol for the field to use in the daily completion of MMO-031-20 until inventories of the products listed in the MMO…

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USPS: Retail Associate takes pride in the appearance of her retail lobby

Kristin Deshazo takes pride in the appearance of her retail lobby. The Ramona, CA, retail associate knows her customers expect a neat and clean area that has the materials they need to do business with USPS. “I begin each day by checking the lobby to make sure the Priority Mail boxes are fully stocked and…

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USPS OIG Blog: Keep it Clean… and Safe

We hear a lot about the U.S. Postal Service’s brand. And rightfully so. The brand is among its most precious assets. The post office lobby is certainly a lens through which the customer views the brand. A post office lobby is the principal business office of the Postal Service and often the only close-up look…

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