January 7, 2025 Throughout the past year, the Postal Service has been implementing a new strategic approach with respect to its contracts with package consolidator companies – ones that consolidate large package volumes at local delivery units and use our Parcel Select offering — including negotiating new agreements. Prior agreements failed to reflect operational and … Read more
Promote Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Transparency of Postal Operations – Pursue Excellence Through Developing Our People and Advancing Innovations
July 26, 2023 The Postal Service is reminding employees that the organization is a unique hybrid: part government agency, part commercial enterprise. Because of this, some requests for information are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, which gives the public the right to request access to records from any federal agency. Commercial … Read more
Can you make the argument that national conventions should be moved to a yearly event? Probably not because of the cost associated with such a move. But if the National Executive Board which is supposed to act on behalf of the members between conventions isn’t meeting, maybe all the delegates should conduct the business of … Read more
National President’s Conference Notes – March 10 – 11, 2019 This is the final version of my NPC notes that I took. I limited my original notes in order to get them out to a few of my members as soon as I could. I have added Vance Zimmerman’s address to the NPC along with … Read more
National President’s Conference Notes – March 10 – 11, 2019 Via Sam Wood, President – Southwest Florida Area Local I have limited my notes drastically in order to keep these notes as short as possible while also being helpful to what was covered at the NPC. I apologize in advance for any errors or mistakes … Read more
Where can I find the list of names and their APWU or other positions of those who were appointed and serving on the 2016 National APWU Election Committee? I ask this because we need some significant improvements to make before the next 2019 National APWU election. Most of our complaints and concerns about missing ballots, … Read more
The leaders and members of an organization have the right to various types of information. We call that principle “transparency”. In my opinion, this principle applies to the officers, stewards, and members of the American Postal Workers Union. I believe we as members have the right to any information that does not impact the overall … Read more