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 ranking Republican Tom Coburn (R-OK), will draft an amendment to the legislation that may include mutually acceptable changes to the bill. Other Senators intend to draft amendments. You may read more about the aborted committee markup and the House-Senate Budget Conference Committee that may consider hits to federal and postal benefits in the latest edition of the eNAPUS Legislative and Political Bulletin.
Yesterday, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) announced that the committee will markup S. 1486 on Wednesday, November 6. The meeting will begin at 10:00 AM EST. It is likely that the authors, Senators Carper and ranking Republican Tom Coburn (R-OK), will offer an amendment to the legislation that will include mutually acceptable changes to the bill. Other Senators intend to offer amendments. All amendments must be filed with committee by Monday afternoon. You may read more about the committee meeting and the House-Senate Budget Conference Committee that may consider hits to federal and postal benefits in the latest edition of the eNAPUS Legislative and Political Bulletin.
While S. 1486, as drafted, provides a measure of financial relief and enables the USPS to be more innovative, contention remains in three major areas.
First, deep anxiety exists over provisions that adversely impact employee health and retirement benefits. Amendments will likely be offered to address these concerns, but they have yet to be shared. With regard to FEHBP coverage, there is overwhelming consensus that the USPS is incapable of administering its own health benefits plan and, therefore, the final bill should offer coverage through the FEHBP. Another issue commanding attention is improving integration between FEHBP and Medicare
Second, mailers object to giving the USPS more latitude to adjust rates for market-dominant products. NAPUS believes that the current pricing regime is too restrictive, and has impaired the quality and accessibility of services. Under current law, postage cannot exceed a particularly low consumer price index (CPI), as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There exist other indices more reflective of postal expenses, such as the CPI for Delivery Services and the Producer Price Index for Delivery and Warehouse Services.
Third, there is concern S. 1486 does not adequately address postal service standards. For example, NAPUS believes that S. 1486 should include the retail service standards and PRC post office closing provisions that were included in last year’s bipartisan Senate-passed measure.
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And please explain to me why supervisor’s, manager’s and postmaster’s get their days off and carriers in Newport News Virginia are constantly forced to work their days off……???????? There’s carriers making more money than supervisor’s in forced overtime by amounts over 20 thousand ……its ridiculous and an incredible amount of fleecing. …..
Supervisors should carry mail on their off day as unassigned regulars..that way they’ll get plenty of overtime and they’ll get the chance to attempt the outlandish demands they thrust a pond the craft employees on a daily basis. …also carriers could get thier days off as well…..and postmaster positions can be eliminated because operations district managers are telling station managers personally how to run their floors….obviously a position needs to be abolished in this chain of command. ……
DPMSays; Get real the only market with any potential to create revenue is parcel delivery to a physical address. Vision must be focused on what is market demand as Warren appeared to state. The other low revenue high distribution cost should be eliminated as delivering bulk business junk mail was never the intent of the postal service in being the communicator for individual and business in the communication process of delivering mail to physical addresses. There was a time when USPS considered the brown UPS trucks as a means to facilitate them in delivering first class mail an second class, Life . Post and other news magazines back in the 1960s. USPS was the primary means of communication. Parcels were a problem that USPS tolerated and welcome brown truck to lessen the parcel problem. At the present time parcel delivery is an ever increasing market as UPS and FED X earnings are increasing resulting in increasing company value and stock prices. USPS operates in the RED continually loosing billions without any real concern in creating means of creating revenue or operating cost effective as is illustrated in 6 day street delivery which has no just cause as communication between individuals and business are conducted by other means than delivery of payments or business data to a physical street address. AINT no upper management moron rom Lefant plaza but a long time old time craft employee who has seen the good bad and ugly of an organization that must adapt its operation method to meet the changing times of American market place.
Hey Warren let me see you send a package Electronically .You must be one of the upper management morons from Lefant plaza.
Sucka is Sensless, Supervisors do NOT get premium pay after 8hours or for days off. They do get straight time for any time IF they are allowed to clock to it…most of they time they work for free.
Scott is right on. Well said.
240B’s? Why?
Pay Supervisors no overtime, no premium over 8 hours, and no pay after 8 hours. They should get salary only. We had one Supervisor standing around doing nothing but complaining about craft getting overtime. Funny thing, she had more overtime than any craft worker. Note: Yes Supervisors are hourly employees and get a premium after 8 hours.
I do appreciate the thought that the Service is too incompetent to handle its own health benefit program. It is certainly true, and as long as there’s a choice to keep the insurance we have, it would take one extremely stupid individual to put their health benefit needs in the hands of management. It goes without saying management would probably “make” supervisors participate, if they could.
Let us not forget this is the same bunch that is at least six months and possibly nine months behind in processing new retiree pay. Why anybody would trust them to handle insurance is beyond me. The USPS management fancies itself to be in the same league as directors, CEO’s and high ranking management in large companies, like banks, retail and other successful businesses. The joke is on them. Management in the USPS is regarded by business and the public as a bunch of worthless idiots who couldn’t find their collective asses with either hand. The more people who understand this, the better, as pressure will mount to eventually do serious house cleaning. Start with Patrick Donohoe, the most vain, belligerent and company suicidal PMG in the USPS’ history.
Titanic wouldn’t it be more humane if they dug a pit before lining’em all up for one last photo op? Have a heart tin-man.
Get rid of the dead wood,if u don’t touch the mail u r not needed.Supervisors should b part time ,put the figures in and go home.They don’t have to give them a pension or health plan as part timers.Its amazing how the supervisors want an early out with incentives.The problem is they have to many bosses that do nothing,just force them to retire.
Fine? PostalCave.
Then offer a years pay to reduce the work force #
Other wise, u Jane, me love u long time!
The evaluation of the USPS is nth degree negative with no recovery in its present operational mode. Terminal financial destruction
Vision needs to be focused on what is in demand by American business and individual mailing customers. The antiquated need for postal service as the means of communication is history.. Advances in electronic communications has decreased the use of purchasing a stamp and depositing a form of communication to be delivered to a physical address.
The economic laws of supply and demand must be considered as is reflected in decrease of first class mail volume which has decreased revenue resulting in massive monetary losses.
Providing 6 day street delivery has no just cause as the demand for postal services no longer exist. Cost effective operations must be engaged in all levels of operations from headquarters to cluttered small community post offices that should be consolidated or eliminated as there is no justification for continued existence as many are within 8-10 miles radius of a high level office that provides HCR service as some only provide box mail service and sell stamps while a nearby office may have 2-3 rural routes. There is no justification to maintain these offices; consolidate. Provide services customers demand. Abandon political, management pressure groups, and craft union leadership that has sole interest is membership numbers for their financial gain.
Headquarters positions that pay salaries of $200,000 plus to
maintain international registered is a fiasco, a real joke.
House cleaning necessary from to highest to lowest salaries to eliminate waste that make no contribution to bottom line.
USPS has no future in providing mail service for personal or business customers as electronic communication has eliminated the need for writing on cave walls which was prevalent in
prehistoric postal era.
start putting articles on that address the plight of the EAS instead of the craft employees all the time. Like no pay raises for 3 yrs and no incentive for early retirement. That is unheard of for federal employees, EAS are federal employees as well.
“Kick me like u did before, I can’t even fill the pain more.”
Lmfao!!! Blow Master!!!
I don’t care what blow-masters make or when they show to work…. Just give me weekends! NO SATURDAY DELIVERY!!!! ( and for you peckerheads that think 6 day delivery is still the way to go, with only 5 day staff, then you go ahead and enjoy your 2 hour pivots…….. Daily!!! Lmfao!!! DUMMIES!!!
“there is overwhelming consensus that the USPS is incapable of administering its own health benefits plan and, therefore”?
That an a hole lot of other shit! Ya think?
Oh I know! let’s ship beer an give out fishing license’s!
Sell all the historical building an everything else! dirt cheap too!
Clog up the system red tape right wing BS till it come’s to a grinding halt!
Save a penny spend a dollar, contract out, give less, expect more, layoff’s, consolidate, reduce benefit’s, an don’t answer the phone’s!
America, America WTF happened to ye? I use to get a BLT now it’s only a Grilled Cheese! From sea to shinning sea!
But I guess if you didn’t have so many, then alot of District Manager’s Relatives wouldn’t have a so called job…
Are you sure they show up that many days?…Work and Postmasters have no business in the same sentence….District employees are not to be seen after lunch on Fridays….the beauty of being exempt (unaccountable) Thursdays when there are holidays….seems ridiculous that with all the mechanized, computerized counting of the mail that the Postal Service would need so many highly paid managers to compile the numbers to pass on to another overpaid manager, and so forth and so forth……
Postmasters – Proudly Working 3-4 Days a Week, No Weekends, EVER, ALL for a Measly 125k…