Senate takes 5 years to approve 5 USPS Board of Governors nominees – FOUR more still needed

June 16, 2015 Today, David Shapira’s nomination to the USPS Board of Governors was approved by the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. David. Shapira is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Giant Eagle, Inc, a $10 billion company with nearly 40,000 employees. Shapira and 4 other nominees must now await confirmation by the […]

Senate considers nomination of David Shapira for USPS Board of Governors

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “Nomination of Peter V. Neffenger to be Assistant Secretary (Transportation Security Administration), U.S. Department of Homeland Security and David S. Shapira to be a Governor, United States Postal Service Board of Governors” Below is the opening statement of Ranking […]

President Obama re-nominates five of six for USPS Board of Governors

Victoria Kennedy  is not on the list of re-nominations for USPS Board of Governors. President Obama has nominated Stephen Crawford and James Miller III to the Postal Service Board of Governors. Crawford is a research professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Miller, a senior advisor at law firm Husch Blackwell, previously served as […]

U. S. Senate in no hurry to fill 6 vacancies on USPS Board of Governors

In December 2014 ,Senator Tom Carper urged his colleagues to confirm the nominations of Mickey D. Barnett, David Michael Bennett, Stephen Crawford, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, James C. Miller III to the USPS Board of Governors. But the Senate remained gridlocked and only certain nominees were confirmed by the end of 113th Congress.  On December 17, […]

Giant Eagle executive nominated to USPS board of governors

President Obama nominated David S. Shapira, executive chairman of Giant Eagle, ( (retail grocery store chain),to the board of governors of the United States Postal Service, the White House announced on Wednesday. Shapira has been in his current position with Giant Eagle for two years. He was CEO and chairman from 1980 to 2012 and […]