June 29, 2016 The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently introduced a discussion draft on postal reform legislation, which addresses prefunding, health care benefits, and the MSPB rights of postal supervisors. National Association of Postal Supervisors President Louis Atkins issued a letter to Committee leadership addressing the Association’s concerns as well as the benefits…
(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…
(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…
(August 28, 2014) Even as some lawmakers push to limit Postal Service cost-cutting measures, the agency still plans to reduce its workforce by up to 15,000 employees and close up to 82 processing centers. On Aug. 14, a bipartisan group of 50 senators and 10 House lawmakers wrote a letter demanding Congress prohibit the Postal…
The Postal Service needs help from Congress to stop the red ink, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe told CNBC on Wednesday. Despite an increase in package revenues and an emergency price hike that took effect in January, the agency said Monday it lost $2 billion in the second quarter. “The problem we face … is we…
