The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today approved cost-savings legislation that would require the Postal Service to convert door delivery at 15 million homes and businesses to lesser expensive delivery options over the next ten years. The approval of the “Secure Delivery for America Act” (HR 4670) came on an 18-13 vote, split along […]
NAPS has issued a statement in opposition to Chairman Darrell Issa’s proposal to end door delivery of mail. NAPS opposes Mr. Issa’s proposal because it fails to attack the prefunding obligation that has drained the USPS of vital operating capital. In addition, the proposal also fails fund the purchase and installation of the necessary centralized […]
Customers and Mailers alike believe that door-to-door delivery must be protected. pic.twitter.com/7tDQ69eYow — Postal Supervisors (@napshq) May 15, 2014
Online initiative will highlight critical roles of federal and postal employees through images and shared stories WASHINGTON, April 29, 2014 — The Federal-Postal Coalition (FPC) today launched the “What Dreams Are Made Of…” online initiative to push back against the negative stereotype of government employees. The images are meant to remind viewers that many of […]
Rep. Darrell Issa (D-CA), chair of the House oversight committee, is drafting a new stripped-down postal bill that he says tracks the Obama Administration’s primary proposals for overhauling the Postal Service. (It doesn’t, at least not entirely.) Issa could introduce his new measure as early as next week, after Congress returns from its two-week Easter/Passover […]
Senate Committee Approves Postal Reform Measure A Senate panel on Thursday approved sweeping bipartisan legislation that would overhaul Postal Service finances and operations, as well as broaden the personnel appeal rights of non-supervisory managerial employees. By a 9-1 vote, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a substitute version of S. 1486, the […]
Senate lawmakers are preparing to mark-up postal reform legislation at a meeting of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs this Wednesday, January 29, at 10 am ET. (You will be able watch the mark-up live here.) The Committee will work from a new version of S. 1486, the Postal Reform Act, originally […]
The bipartisan budget agreement, approved by the House of Representatives on Thursday and expected to be considered by the Senate this coming week, will affect postal employees in at least four ways. First, it will require new (and only new) federal and postal employees to contribute more toward their retirement benefits. Current employees will not […]
The National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS), along with its partners in the Federal-Postal Coalition, strongly oppose any reduction in retirement benefits or increase in employee contributions, as part of a budget deal reached by Congressional negotiators. NAPS joined thirty other federal and postal employee and retiree groups in co-signing the December 9 letter to […]
Letter outlines the need for the USPS to follow suit with the rest of the Federal Government. NAPS has sent a letter to the United States Postal Service outlining the need to end the EAS pay freeze and grant the same pay raise that is to be given to those federal employees currently on the […]