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,…
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…
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the most comprehensive postal legislation since the founding of the republic â the law that transformed the Post Office Department into the Postal Service. President Richard Nixon signed the Postal Reorganization Act on Aug. 12, 1970, but as Publication 100, the Postal Serviceâs official history book explains, the…
By Britain Eakin – December 2, 2016 ï WASHINGTON (CN) â An association of private mail carriers has sued the U.S. Postal Service, claiming its cancellation of 102 contracts to give the work to Post Office employees will not save any money, but will cost the trade groupâs members hundreds of jobs. âThe terminated contractors…
Via Bobby Donelson, President, Retiree Chapter, SCAL (scroll down for Bobby’s comments) Postal Reorganization Act On March 12, 1970, after extensive hearings, the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee reported a compromise measure containing provisions similar to the commission proposals endorsed by President Nixon. The bill included a 5.4 percent retroactive pay raise and…
