No final decisions have been made WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service today filed an update with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) indicating that 162 offices remain under review for possible consolidation under the station and branch consolidation initiative. That is six fewer from the last update in December. No final decisions have been made […]
APWU News Echoing APWU criticisms, a recent audit by the USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concluded that after more than five years of initiatives aimed at streamlining the mail-processing network, the Postal Service has failed to establish criteria for identifying consolidation opportunities. The USPS has made only limited progress in implementing Area Mail […]
Washington, D.C. – Senator Jay Rockefeller has sent a follow-up letter to the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) Western Pennsylvania District Manager, Charles P. McCreadie, voicing his continued opposition to possible consolidation of operations at the Wheeling, West Virginia Post Office into the Pittsburgh Processing and Distribution Center. As part of the consolidation, the post […]
Newark, NJ — As a result of a study begun in June 2009, the Postal Service has made the decision to move some mail processing operations from the Newark Main Post Office to the USPS Dominick V. Daniels Processing & Distribution Center in Kearny. Local mail service will not be affected by the move. Northern […]
Planned automation changes at the Peoria Post office downtown is sparking protests from some of the workers. The Postal service will move the processing of priority mail from Peoria to Champaign. Several workers gathered outside the post office’s downtown branch for an informational picket today. Members of the American Postal Workers union 854 say they […]
APWU News In a rush to redesign its nationwide network of facilities, the Postal Service acted on several misguided and poorly rationalized assumptions, a Postal Regulatory Commission official told Congress in late July. In testimony before a House of Representatives subcommittee, John D. Wailer also cited a lack of consistency in how proposed consolidations are reviewed; […]
Tennessee AMP Study Terminated APWU News The APWU has been notified that a proposed consolidation that would have resulted in a mail-processing shift approximately 90 miles across southwest Tennessee will not occur. “After review, it has been determined that there are currently no significant opportunities to improve efficiency and/or service through consolidation of certain mail processing […]
APWU News The APWU has been notified that a proposed consolidation of mail-processing operations in Waco, TX, will not occur. A study to determine whether operations should be shifted both north (about 90 miles to Fort Worth) and south (100 miles to Austin) has been terminated. Approximately 250 jobs were at stake. “After review, it has […]
Termination of AMPs Is Good News For Northern Michigan, Southern Texas APWU News – May 17, 2007 The APWU has been notified that studies of the consolidation of some mail-processing operations at the Gaylord (MI) Main Post Office and at Beaumont (TX) P&DF have been brought to a close and the proposed consolidations will not take […]