The Postal Service will continue the network rationalization of its mail processing operations next year, PMG Pat Donahoe announced today. Up to 82 facilities will be consolidated beginning in January 2015 and concluding prior to the fall mailing season. The changes are expected to generate $750 million in annual savings. “The Postal Service has recorded […]
‘This Summer we are going to be able to tell customers when a package is within 15 minutes of delivery to their house.” – Patrick R Donahoe, Postmaster General & CEO, USPS -Interview at the IPC Annual Conference 2014: e-Commerce, the new normal.
The Postmaster General and the USPS are lobbying Congress. What are they asking legislators to do? Reduce letter delivery to five days per week; Deny new hires a “defined benefit” retirement (pension) plan; Force injured workers into a poverty retirement. If these points look familiar, they should! They are all part of the severely flawed Senate […]
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 […]
06/23/2014 – The Postal Service’s propaganda machine has been working overtime in recent months, with workers forced to watch videos featuring Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe spewing falsehoods about “the state of the business” and the deal with Staples. APWU President Mark Dimondstein takes on the PMG’s claims in a new video that every postal […]
June 18, 2014 – The APWU opened another front in the campaign to Stop Staples with a protest in Pittsburgh on June 17. The city is one of four tests sites for the program that established postal counters in more than 82 of the company’s office-supply stores – staffed with Staples employees rather than U.S. […]
Would End Saturday Delivery; Give ‘Savings’ to Highway Trust Fund June 16, 2014 – The Postmaster General’s latest act of treachery is so outrageous it’s hard to believe. Last week, he endorsed a budget scam that would eliminate Saturday mail delivery and hand over the alleged “savings” to the Highway Trust Fund. The ploy, which […]
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 […]
Washington DC– With less than nine (9) months before negotiations begin over a new contract, management is signaling probable targets for hard bargaining. On the bargaining table will likely be health benefits, pay, leave, holidays and work flexibility. The current collective bargaining agreement covering hours, wages and working conditions for over 200,000 postal workers expires […]
June 12, 2014 – As APWU members spread the word about the ‘Don’t Buy Staples’ campaign to other labor organizations and friends, the result of their hard work is paying off. Two additional organizations have joined the movement against the privatization of USPS retail services since yesterday. NH State Employees’ Association The New Hampshire State […]