Handbook EL-312 Revision: Suitability Effective April 16, 2015, the Postal Service™ is revising Handbook EL-312, Employment and Placement, part 584 to update policy for employee evaluations. n 584.43 is changed to state that completion of temporary service may affect the probationary period in accordance with the appropriate collective bargaining agreement. n 584.45 contained a note […]
April 15, 2015 Little Rock, Arkansas – When complaints about lost mail led to a whodunit at the Bee Branch post office last year, the U.S. Postal Service used a piece of rigged mail to capture the culprit — who turned out to be the mail lady herself. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that 35-year-old Sheila […]
Effective April 16, 2015, the Postal Service™ is revising the Employee and Labor Relations Manual (ELM) section 436.2 to clarify the exception which allows uncapped annual leave to be recredited, relative to the processing of a back pay claim. * * * * * Employee and Labor Relations Manuals (ELM) * * * * * […]
Problem blamed on high turnover rate for new letter carriers. Letter Carriers make $15.68 an hour and many don’t last long. The turnover rate is about 33 percent Vancouver, WA – For the last two years, U.S. Postal Service delivery to Vancouver’s North Image neighborhood has been so unpredictable, some residents say it’s a crapshoot […]
The United States Postal Service issued a Request for Information and Prequalification/Sources Sought for its Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) Acquisition Program. The purpose of the RFI was to inform prospective suppliers on the USPS’s preliminary/draft specifications and plans for acquisition of NGDV fleet replacements. According to USPS: The first phase will be for interested […]
APWU: Members Eligible For Maintenance Craft’s AOI Remedy Identified 04/14/2015 – Maintenance Craft employees who are eligible for a monetary remedy in the Associate Office Infrastructure (AOI) arbitration award have been identified, Director Steve Raymer has announced. Checks to union members are currently being processed. Eligible employees are those who occupied an ET-10, ET-11, AMS-8 […]
Senators request one-year moratorium on Postal Service closings and consolidations, urges colleagues to use time to finally enact comprehensive postal service reform Tuesday, April 14, 2015 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill has requested the postponement of all Postal Service mail processing facility closings and consolidations through the end of the 2016 fiscal year. In […]
Two people were taken to hospital following a Friday afternoon accident on Chesnee Highway that led to an overturned mail truck. Details of the accident weren’t immediately available but reports said a pickup truck and the mail truck were involved in a collision near the Old Metal Road intersection. The accident occurred shortly before 4 […]
Apr 13, 2015 – The National Labor Relations Board has formally charged the Postal Service with failing to bargain with the NALC over the potential impact on letter carriers of the September cyber-security breach that compromised Postal Service computers containing workers’ personal and employment information, including medical, injury compensation, banking, Social Security and other personally […]
Omar Gonzalez, APWU Western Region Coordinator No, I’m not writing to [Megan] Brennan the 74th (and first female) PMG. I’m directing this to you, Ben Franklin. Yes, I realize you were one of the last PMGs of the British Crown. And yes, it is technically Sam Osgood who was the first PMG of the USA. […]