USPS: Post Plan completion date extended – Program keeps Post Offices open by reducing hours

The Post Plan timeline has been extended — with the program now being finalized in early January 2015. Since the program was announced more than two years ago, 9166 Post Offices have had retail operating hours adjusted based on customer use: 3,009 offices are now 6-hour a day offices 4,900 offices are now 4-hour a…

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POStPlan postponed: 3,200 postmasters get a reprieve

The Postal Service has announced that the timeline for implementing POStPlan is going to be extended. Initially, all 13,000 post offices included in the plan were to have their hours reduced by the end of September 2014, and any full-time postmasters still working at those offices would have lost their full-time jobs on October 1…

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Retirees to Receive Final Early Retirement Incentive Check on May 23

Web News Article # 082-14 May 5, 2014 – Thousands of former postal employees who took advantage of the Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive in 2013 will be returning to the post office where they last worked to pick up their final incentive check on May 23, reports Retirees Department Director Judy Beard. This presents a…

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