Statement by Mark Dimondstein President, American Postal Workers Union on Staples Announcement on ‘Pilot Program’ Performing USPS Work “This attempt at trickery shows that the ‘Don’t Buy Staples’ movement is having an effect.” July 14, 2014 – A Staples announcement on July 14 indicating that the company is terminating its no-bid deal with the U.S. […]
eNAPUS Legislative and Political Bulletin Six-Day Delivery Continues to Be Ground Zero It’s no secret that the US Postal Service has a decades-old desire to secure control of delivery frequency. Presently, the six-day delivery mandate is located in annual appropriations bill that, in part, provide postage subsidies to nonprofit mailers, and funds free mail-for-the-blind and […]
APWU: Just yesterday the USPS said it was in “an unprecedented financial crisis” and will be unable to fix its problems.Which is it? Is USPS here to stay or on the verge of collapse? USPS Sets the Record Straight – Postal Service Isn’t Going Away Recent letters to the editor suggested the Postal Service is facing […]
The Postal Service is facing “an unprecedented financial crisis” and will be unable to fix its problems unless Congress gives the organization more flexibility, a new report concludes. USPS has about $22 billion in assets and $113 billion in liabilities, including liabilities related to a law that requires the organization to “prefund” health benefits for […]
Talk about a domino effect. In late 2013, the Chairman Of the House Committee (hmmm..I wonder who can this be) requested a review from USPS OIG on a whistleblower complaint surrounding travel card misuse. A few months later the conservative paper Washington Times published story based on information from a FOIA request on abuse of […]
The USPS Office of Inspector General has published a new white paper that explores how the U.S. Postal Service could experience a significant boost in commercial package volume as 3D printing becomes more widespread.
Most Americans have never heard of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. The mind-numbing title alone sounds like it could put a hardcore insomniac to sleep. The truth is, it’s one of the most insane laws Congress ever enacted. It’s past time for people in the Roanoke Valley to wake up about it. […]
The Postal Service is focused on growing revenue, but the organization remains stymied by its outdated business model, CFO Joe Corbett told the nation’s top chief financial officers recently. “We need to continue doing what we are doing — and we need legislation from Congress to change our business model so that we can be […]
National Association of Postal Supervisors Statement on the Postal Service’s Plan to Close Eighty-Two Processing Facilities The Postal Service on June 30 announced a major restructuring of its mail processing network with the closure of eighty-two (82) processing facilities throughout the country beginning in January, 2015. NAPS opposes the Postal Service’s plan because it will […]
$19 billion of those savings would result from moves to five-day delivery and cluster boxes, says the Congressional Budget Office. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a financial analysis of the House Postal Reform Act (H.R. 2748) that estimates that, if passed, it would return $23.6 billion in savings to the troubled U.S. Postal […]