Job well done Dear Postal Colleagues: We want to take a moment to thank everyone for your hard work during this year’s Letter Carrier Food Drive. Once again, you collected millions of pounds of food to help feed the estimated 50 million people—including 16 million children—who face hunger every day in the United States. The […]
June 14, 2014—UPDATED June 16—Earlier this week, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe recklessly endorsed the House of Representative’ leadership’s outrageous ploy to use massive job and service cuts in the Postal Service to “pay for” a short-term extension of the Highway Trust Fund, which will run out of money in August if Congress fails to raise […]
May 31, 2014—NALC President Fredric Rolando said the proposal by House Republican leaders to temporarily fund highway construction by degrading postal services would damage the economy while failing to achieve desired transportation goals. “This is the latest attempt by GOP leaders at an end run, trying to cut postal services to provide money for another […]
May 21, 2014—Statement of Fredric V. Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, following the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s approval of H.R. 4670, the Secure Delivery for America Act of 2014: This irresponsible bill, H.R. 4670, is bad for the American public, bad for businesses, bad for the economy and bad for […]
Fredric V Rolando, NALC President, The Postal Record, May 2014 The Postal Service and much of Washington are caught in a time warp. For some reason, they still think it’s 2009 and that the Postal Service is in terminal decline. The postmaster general’s “shrink to survive” austerity plan was developed in the depths of the […]
April, 8, 2014—Following today’s release of the U.S. Postal Service’s financial statement for the second quarter of Fiscal Year 2014, which covers January, February and March, NALC President Fredric Rolando released the following statement: The Postal Service today reported a quarterly operating profit of $261 million, which brings the operating profit for the first half […]
April, 8, 2014—Following today’s House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the Obama administration’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget request for the United States Postal Service, National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando released the following statement: Today’s hearing focused on the Obama administration’s proposals to slash postal services, proposals that were first developed during […]
From the National Association of Letter Carriers: A bipartisan omnibus spending bill released on Jan. 13 retained the language calling for six-day mail delivery service, language that has been part of such bills for more than 30 years. “We are grateful that Congress recognizes the value of Saturday delivery to millions of American businesses that […]
Ed Schultz & NALC President Frederic Rolando discuss USPS- fast-forward to 1:35 thru 6:00. via: Issa continues crusade against USPS | MSNBC.
Will less mail spell the end of the U.S. Postal Service or a chance to reinvent itself? The NALC president weighs in. From NALC: NALC President Fredric V. Rolando appeared on CNN this weekend in the final segment of “State of the Union with Candy Crowley.” The two chatted about the future of the Postal […]