Despite Monday’s snowstorm and the congressional recess, Sen. Tom Carper, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, traveled to Washington, DC, to update Postmasters on postal reform legislation at the NAPUS Leadership Conference. Both the House and Senate have reported postal reform bills, which are awaiting consideration by the full House and […]
From the National Association of Postmasters of the United States (NAPUS) Today, President Obama unveiled his Fiscal Year 2015 Budget and it includes a number of proposals that relate to the Postal Service. Refund the Postal Service the projected Federal Employees Retirement System overpayment of $5 billion, over a 2-year period Recalculate the USPS retiree […]
Earlier today, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee began its markup of S. 1486 – but recessed after about 2-and-a-half hours. The committee markup can be reconvened at the “call of the chair”. At the outset, the committee adopted the “Carper-Coburn Managers’ Amendment” in place of the original bill. Subsequently, the committee considered […]
Postmasters whose FY 2013 overall numeric rating is 3 or below will receive an adjective rating of contributor. Following years of management associations (NAPUS, League and NAPS) objections to non-bargaining employee’s performance ratings of non-contributor, most recently during our ongoing pay consultations, the Postal Service has decided to allow non-bargaining employees who received an overall […]
From NAPUS: Yesterday, at about 3:45 PM EST, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Tom Carper (D-DE) pulled the plug on consideration of S. 1486 for the year. Up until that time, the Carper-Coburn postal reform bill was scheduled on the committee calendar for a Wednesday morning “markup”. Nevertheless, committee consideration of the […]
On Wednesday, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper announced that he would take another crack at bringing S. 1486, the Carper-Coburn postal reform bill, to a committee vote. The scheduled date for the committee markup is Wednesday, December 18 — only one or two days prior to the year-end congressional recess. […]
A reminder that Postal Service Headquarters previously announced a moratorium on the implementation of offices into the POStPlan between November 18 through December 31, 2013. There will be no implementation of offices after November 16, 2013, with the next implementation period beginning on Saturday, January 11, 2014. A postal spokesman said this action was taken to reduce the need […]
From NAPUS: Senate Committee Postpones Next Week’s Vote on Postal Bill Update: Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) announced that the committee will postpone the markup on S. 1486, which was originally scheduled for Wednesday, November 6. In the intervening time, it is likely that the authors, Senators Carper and […]
POStPlan Re-evaluations of Level 18 Offices in FY 2014 Won’t Impact Incumbent Postmasters Until FY 2016. POStPlan office evaluations will still take place as originally planned As announced earlier, encumbered EAS-18 offices that are evaluated under POStPlan in FY 2014, won’t be changed until FY 2016. These offices will be evaluated as originally intended under […]
From NAPUS: Postal Headquarters Announces FY 2014 Pay for Performance Program and National Performance Assessment Corporate and Unit Indicators For the first time in recent history, the NPA Unit and proposed Corporate Indicator targets and thresholds will be available to Postmasters at the beginning of the Fiscal Year (FY-2014.) The files provide the finalized Unit […]