NAPS Leg/Reg Update – September 25, 2013 The Senate postal oversight committee on Thursday will hold its second hearing in two weeks on postal reform legislation, S. 1486, introduced in early August by the panel’s top Democrat and Republican, Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK).
The National Association of Postal Supervisors, representing over 28,000 active and retired supervisory and managerial employees of the United States Postal Service, supports the passage of comprehensive postal reform that ends the financial crisis afflicting the Postal Service and provides a foundation for future stability and growth. NAPS believes that comprehensive postal reform should embrace […]
Updates regarding NAPS/USPS dialogue regarding plant re-ranking (Updated 9/6/13) In the last few days, the Postal Service’s plan to re-rank mail processing plants has become public knowledge despite their best efforts to keep the information confidential until September 6, 2013. The confidential nature of the discussions between NAPS and USPS Labor Relations was due to […]
From the National Association of Postal Supervisors: NAPS has signed on to a letter from the Federal Postal Coalition that urges members of the House of Representatives to reject a package of four anti-Federal Employee pieces of legislation due to hit the House floor this week.
Press Release from the National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS) Yesterday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing titled “A Path Forward on Postal Reform.” The hearing helped to confirm the core problems facing the Postal Service and the most appropriate solutions for inclusion in a comprehensive postal reform measure. We […]
NAPS Statement On Proposals To Shift COLA To Chained CPI In April, President Barack Obama issued his budget proposal for FY 2014, a proposal that included several measures aimed squarely at deficit reduction. One of these proposals proposed moving Cost-Of-Living-Adjustments (COLA’s) for Social Security and Federal/Postal pensions from the standard Consumer Price Index (CPI), which […]
Senate and House postal oversight leaders have agreed to a package of undisclosed “principles” to guide the shaping of similar, but not necessarily identical, Senate and House comprehensive postal reform bills, according to Congressional sources. While the agreement does not clear the way for immediate action in either chamber, it reveals incremental progress between […]
NAPS Executive Vice President pens commentary on behalf of Federal-Postal Coalition We take so much for granted in America today. From clean water, to consistent electric power to a safe food supply; we go about our daily lives without a care about these everyday services. Sure, we are concerned about gun violence, problems in the […]
On April 16, 2013, the National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS) received a request to re-open Pay Consultations between NAPS and the Postal Service as a result of the Board of Governors electing not to move forward with the Postal Service’s plan to eliminate Saturday First Class Mail delivery.
From the National Association of Postal Supervisors This morning, NAPS received a request from Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe to re-open pay consultations between NAPS and the United States Postal Service as a result of the USPS Board of Governor’s decision not to proceed with ending six-day First Class mail delivery. The Resident Officers alerted […]