A large body of Members of the House of Representatives — 160 strong — today called upon House appropriations leaders to include in the stopgap funding bill a one-year moratorium on the closure of the 82 mail processing facilities that are slated for consolidation by USPS, beginning January 2015. The 82 plants are located in […]
National Association of Postal Supervisors Statement on the Postal Service’s Plan to Close Eighty-Two Processing Facilities The Postal Service on June 30 announced a major restructuring of its mail processing network with the closure of eighty-two (82) processing facilities throughout the country beginning in January, 2015. NAPS opposes the Postal Service’s plan because it will […]
The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday added a rider to a government funding measure mandating that the U.S. Postal Service continue to provide Saturday delivery service. NAPS supports the preservation of Saturday mail delivery. The Serrano-Latham amendment added the six-day mail delivery mandate to the House version of the FY 2015 Financial Services and General […]
House Republican leaders last week backed away from a plan replenishing the Highway Trust Fund with the so-called “savings” from terminating Saturday mail delivery, after groups from both sides of the political spectrum, including NAPS, announced their opposition to the scheme and its foremost backer, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) lost his reelection bid. […]
House Republican leaders are preparing a proposal to replenish the Highway Trust Fund by scaling back Saturday mail delivery. The Highway Fund, which is running out of money, provides federal dollars for federal and state highway projects. The so-called “modified Saturday delivery” plan being developed by House GOP leaders, including Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), has […]
From the National Association of Postal Supervisors The House Republican Leadership, spearheaded by Chairman Issa, has been developing a plan to end six-day delivery and in turn, use the projected cost savings to fund a Shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund. We have attached a statement where NAPS vehemently opposes this proposal. The Highway Trust […]
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today approved cost-savings legislation that would require the Postal Service to convert door delivery at 15 million homes and businesses to lesser expensive delivery options over the next ten years. The approval of the “Secure Delivery for America Act” (HR 4670) came on an 18-13 vote, split along […]
NAPS has issued a statement in opposition to Chairman Darrell Issa’s proposal to end door delivery of mail. NAPS opposes Mr. Issa’s proposal because it fails to attack the prefunding obligation that has drained the USPS of vital operating capital. In addition, the proposal also fails fund the purchase and installation of the necessary centralized […]
Customers and Mailers alike believe that door-to-door delivery must be protected. pic.twitter.com/7tDQ69eYow — Postal Supervisors (@napshq) May 15, 2014
Congressman Michael Grimm (R-NY was endorsed by all national and some local postal unions in the 2012 election. The only postal union to endorsed Grimm’s opponent Mark Murphy was APWU Local New York Metro. Grimm was (one of the few GOP congressmembers) a staunch supporter of postal bills friendly to postal workers and USPS. Here […]