WASHINGTON – Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) released the following reactions to the announcement that the U.S. Postal Service lost $1.9 billion in the second quarter of fiscal year 2014: “Unfortunately, today’s announcement that the Postal Service lost $1.9 billion in the second […]
House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) postponed a scheduled Wednesday, May 7, markup of a yet-to-be introduced postal bill. The chairman has not announced a new date for the markup. As outlined in last week’s Legislative Post, the new Issa bill was intended to mimic the postal plan proposed by President […]
May 7, 2014 -Consideration by a House Committee of a new postal bill sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) , which was scheduled for May 7, has been postponed indefinitely. “We must remain vigilant,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. “The bill proposed by Rep. Issa is extremely detrimental to the Postal Service, to postal workers and to […]
May 6, 2014 – The presidents of the four postal employee unions – the APWU, the National Association of Letter Carriers, the National Rural Letter Carriers Association and the NPMHU – have written to members of the House of Representatives, urging them to vote against a postal bill drafted by House Oversight and Government Reform […]
It appears likely that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will conduct a vote on a new bill authored by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) on Wednesday afternoon, May 7. The most recent draft of the bill is very similar to the postal proposal included in President Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget. The bill would […]
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 […]
Even if election-year politics were not paralyzing Congress, it would be hard to pass a major reform of the U.S. Postal Service. Heaven knows the USPS needs an overhaul: It’s losing customers and billions of dollars per year, in part because electronic communication has rendered its traditional business model — first-class mail — obsolete. Yet […]
PostalReporter.com: In the Obama 2015 Budget policy posted a few months ago there was a recommendation regarding health premiums. The recommendation would permit health providers to charge higher premiums for enrollees who smoke. Developing….. From the National Association of Postal Supervisors: President Barack Obama administration’s 2015 Budget Policy recommendations for the U.S. Postal Service updated […]
National Association of Postal Supervisors released the following draft of Congressman Darrell Issa’s Postal Reform bill discussion. It appears Issa is taking a suggestion from Canada Post regarding the ‘pay for fee’ door-to’ door delivery NAPS: Rep. Darrell Issa (D-CA), chair of the House oversight committee, is drafting a new stripped-down postal bill that he […]
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 […]