Six-Day Delivery Remains the Center of Attention, Senate to Hear USPS Board of Governor Nominees “The legislative strategy seems to rest with the unproven assumption that if the elimination of sixday delivery could be passed — independent of postal relief legislation — enough legislative maneuvering room would be created to permit action on comprehensive postal…
NAPUS National President, Tony Leonardi, and LEAGUE National President, Mark Strong, received the following explanation from Vice President, Labor Relation, Doug A. Tulino, concerning the inclusion of Level 6 POStPLAN offices during Limited Area of Consideration (LAC) posting scheduled for July 8, 2014 through July 23, 2014. The APWU has filed a national level dispute…
The latest postal absurdity on Capitol Hill is being perpetuated by high-ranking members of the House Republican Leadership. Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) propose to bail-out the Highway Trust Fund with an almost $11 billion raid on the U.S. Postal Service. There is currently a…
The Postal Service has announced that the timeline for implementing POStPlan is going to be extended. Initially, all 13,000 post offices included in the plan were to have their hours reduced by the end of September 2014, and any full-time postmasters still working at those offices would have lost their full-time jobs on October 1…
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is floating a new postal proposal this week, and he intends to put before his committee on Wednesday morning, May 21. Unlike the previous Issa attempt, which replicated President Obama’s postal plan, the latest Issa draft bill would simply phase-out door delivery and replace it…
It appears likely that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will conduct a vote on a new bill authored by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) on Wednesday afternoon, May 7. The most recent draft of the bill is very similar to the postal proposal included in President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget. The bill would…
