APWU: Most Recent Info on S&DCs, RPDCs, and PO-408s

From: Charlie Cash <CCash@apwu.org> Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2023 Subject: Most Recent Info on S&DCs, RPDCs, and PO-408s Union Family, Some of this information has already been sent out. The attached documents for the S&DCs and RPDCs are the most recent we have for these types of facilities. Management cancelled their most recently scheduled meeting…

 Continue reading

APWU: PRC to issue Advisory Opinion on Slower Service Standards

APWU News Article – June 29, 2021 When postal management unveiled their 10-year Delivering for America plan, APWU vowed to oppose elements of the plan that would affect postal workers, slow down the mail or degrade the service postal workers proudly provide the public. In the past weeks, together with our allies in A Grand…

 Continue reading

Postal delivery issues linger in Northland

By Brady Slater – July 11, 2015 The Duluth mail processing center on the 2800 block of West Michigan Street remains fully staffed — but the delivery time of letters it handles appears to be falling behind the U.S. Postal Service’s new two-day local standard. “You talk about frustrating,” said James Linder, a local landlord…

 Continue reading

Video: U.S. Postal Service Contract Talks with Union Continue

By Jamison Hixenbaugh – July 7, 2015 After months of rallying and negotiation talks, the American Post Workers Union has yet to reach a contract agreement with the U.S. Postal Service. According to APWU Erie Area Local President Joe Szocki, the two sides have been in mediation since June, after failing to reach an agreement by…

 Continue reading

Statement by Mark Dimondstein President, APWU on USPS’s Lowering of Service Standards This Week Resulting in the Delay of Mail for All Customers

Where is it? Why hasn’t it arrived? For Immediate Release 01/05/2015 – Where is it? Why hasn’t it arrived? Beginning this week, these questions will be asked by millions of Americans who will wonder why their prescription drugs, their church bulletin, their paycheck, and other important correspondence haven’t been delivered. The lowering of service standards…

 Continue reading

Congresswoman Norton Wants PMG to Reverse Changes that Delay Mail and Reconsider Consolidations

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter Norton sent to United States Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe that asks him to reconsider the consolidation of more than 80 mail-processing centers in January 2015 that will delay First-Class and other mail delivery, without public input….

 Continue reading