By Adam Benson – May 12, 2015 NORWICH – A federal official has suggested regulators remand a Jan. 26 U.S. Postal Service decision to shutter the Yantic Post Office facility, saying the agency “did not consider meaningful community input” during the process – among other criticisms. On Monday night, Elisabeth Shellan, a public representative for … Read more
Project Title: POStPlan Cost Savings Start Date: February 19, 2015 Estimated Report Release Date: March 2015 In May of 2012, the Postal Service announced a new strategy — the Post Office Structure Plan (POStPlan) — which aligns retail window hours with customer use. Under the Plan, some offices will be open less than they have … Read more
This is the final week of POStPlan implementation. On February 7, the last of the remaining 13,000 post offices will have their hours reduced, and the last of the remaining postmasters will leave their jobs. The Postal Service postponed the Reduction in Force (RIF) separation date for all remaining impacted POStPlan postmasters from January 9 … Read more
Web News Article #: 004-2015 01/12/2015 – An addendum to the Sept. 22, 2013, POStPLAN Memorandum of Understanding will place a number of career jobs into Level 4 post offices, which otherwise would have been staffed exclusively with Postal Support Employees (PSEs). The offices in question are open four hours per day. The specific numbers … Read more
(January 1, 2015) WASHINGTON — The Postal Service plans to begin a new round of plant closings and consolidations next week that will affect dozens of mail-processing centers, despite calls from the Senate to postpone the changes. Last month, 30 senators, all but one of them Democrats, issued a letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe … Read more
(November 23, 2014) No matter what Megan Brennan does as the nation’s first woman postmaster general, she is bound to make a lot of people unhappy. In 2015 Brennan, now chief operating officer of the U.S. Postal Service, will replace Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, who is retiring Feb. 1. Brennan will take over as the … Read more
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Dozens of Alaska Post Offices are potentially facing reduced hours of operation after Jan. 1, 2015. According to the U.S. Postal Service, some of those post offices would be limited to two hours of operation a day. The USPS said it began a plan to close the offices after it noticed a … Read more
Almost every day over the past year, there’s been a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of a new Village Post Office. There are hundreds of stories in local newspapers about these grand openings. The Postal Service clearly thinks that Village Post Offices play an important role in its vision of the future. But it’s … Read more