12/4/2019 TAMPA, Fla. – The U.S. Postal Service package processing plant in Ybor City expects to handle more holiday packages this year than ever before as deadlines approach. About half a million packages will come through the Tampa facility every day between now and Christmas. “To get everybody their packages by Christmas and under the […]
08/29/2018 – Time is running short for APWU retirees who are interested in applying for temporary positions as Holiday Clerk Assistants: Applications are due Sept. 24. The Peak Season Exception Periods memo signed by President Mark Dimondstein and the USPS Vice President of Labor Relations in September 2015 has been carried forward into the new contract. Therefore, […]
APWU and USPS “agreed to a “one time modification to change the 2016 peak exception period in Function 1 from November 12, 2016 through January 6, 2017. In Function Four, HCAs [Holiday Career Assistants] will be hired from November 12 through December 23, 2016 or November 26, 2016 through January 6, 2017. This does not […]
New APWU MOU Regarding Peak Season Exception Periods and the Use of Annuitants APWU, USPS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to reemploy retirees as Holiday Clerk Assistants (HCAs) during the “peak” season. The parties agreed to a, “one-time modification to change the 2016 peak exception period in Function 1 from November 12, 2016 […]
11/24/2015 – The reporting period for the 2015 Peak Season Exception Period began on Nov. 14, 2015, and ends Jan. 8, 2016. The three consecutive pay periods will be the weeks of Nov. 14, 2015, to Dec. 25, 2015, or Nov. 28, 2015, to Jan. 8, 2016, to be decided by local management. The APWU […]
Note: Many retirees may welcome returning to USPS for 6 weeks. However, some readers are saying that they never got the notice. USPS sent out the notie more than likely to the last known address of the retiree–which may not be current. USPS did not post this notice on its website for postal retirees….WHY?? A […]
50-Mile Limit – Minimizing Excessing Memo Extended Two Related MOUs and Maintenance-Specific Step 4 Settlement Facilitate Extension 09/29/2015 – The APWU and the USPS have agreed upon two Memoranda of Understanding: “Minimizing Excessing” and “Peak Season Exception Periods,” in addition to a Maintenance-specific Step 4 Settlement, that are all interconnected and result in the extension […]