For fifteen years, the United States Postal Service has been obligated to prefund its retiree healthcare costs at 100%. This mandate resulted in the annual loss of $5 billion over a decade and has been the primary cause of financial deficits since 2013. Because of these losses, the Postal Service faced cuts in services and…
I would like to suggest that every member write their member of Congress and President-elect Biden a letter asking them to get Congress to sink some money into the USPS. I know some of you didn’t vote for Biden but business is business. You may not like Biden but most of you like your job….
The Postal Service is sharing a video of Postmaster General Louis DeJoyâs recent appearance at the Economic Club of Washington, DC. DeJoy took part in a Sept. 24 question-and-answer session with David Rubenstein, the Economic Clubâs president. Over the course of about 45 minutes, DeJoy discussed the Postal Serviceâs mission, election-related mail, the coronavirus pandemic…
In a special video message, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and postal union presidents discuss the Postal Serviceâs new leadership task force on election-related mail and the organizationâs commitment to delivering this mail securely and on time. The task force will help the organization work with election officials across the nation, including addressing issues relating to…
By Dan Kuralt – September 7, 2020 As I listen to, and read all of the moaning and groaning by Democrats and writers with an âopinionâ in the press and elsewhere, I find myself wondering where all these people were when the U.S. Postal Service was undergoing itâs long slide downward. Joe Biden was around,…
September 1, 2020 The Postal Service is continuing to experience dramatic shifts in its business due to the coronavirus pandemic, Chief Financial Officer Joe Corbett reports in his latest âDollars and Changeâ video. Quarantines, stay-at-home orders and travel restrictions have affected customers and businesses, leading to deep declines in First-Class Mail and Marketing Mail volumes…
Via John P. Richards, President â Pittsburgh Area Retiree Chapter of the APWU In this issue: Trump The Destroyer/strong> Absentee Voting Under Attack Trump Is Trying To Rig The Election And Wreck The Working Class and Seniors Pittsburgh Retiree Record â September 1, 2020
Postal worker Ursula Hennessy doesnât just remember the August day 50 years ago when President Richard Nixon signed the landmark Postal Reorganization Act. She was â to borrow a line from âHamiltonâ â in the room where it happened. Hennessy was in her 20s when she joined the Post Office Department in 1969 as the…
