The USPS Board of Governors Temporary Emergency Committee consists of two members –Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan and Deputy Postmaster General Ron Stroman WASHINGTON – 5/1/17 – The Temporary Emergency Committee of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service (“TEC”) will meet May 10 in open session at Postal Service headquarters, 475 L’Enfant […]
4/25/16 WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after a business meeting in which the committee unanimously approved the nominations of Julie Becker, Steven Berk, and Elizabeth Wingo to be Associate Judges on the Superior Court of the […]
Senate Committee moves quickly on nomination of Jeffrey A. Rosen to USPS Board of Governors. Rosen was nominated March 17, 2016. See USPS Board of Governors nominee is former Mitt Romney adviser, pushed for privatizing Amtrak Here is the press release from Senator Tom Carper: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security […]
In a recent opinion column, David Williams of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance discussed the Postal Service’s need for the eight vacant seats on its Board of Governors to be filled. We completely agree with Mr. Williams on this point and strongly urge the Senate to confirm the current nominees, most of whom have already been […]
Last week NALC reported that “Another Postal Board of Governors nomination announced.” The White House nominated Jeffrey A. Rosen to become a member of the Postal Service Board of Governors to serve a term expiring on Dec. 8, 2021. Surprisingly, not one media outlet mentioned Mr. Rosen’s background (after this post is published watch for […]
A group of mailers sent the following letter to U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Chairman Sen. Ron Johnson and Ranking Member Sen. Tom Carper. The letter is urging Johnson and Carper to press the full Senate to vote on nominees for USPS Board of Governors. In September 2015, APWU, Federal Unions and […]
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 WASHINGTON – Today, due to Congressional inaction, the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) Board of Governors has lost another two of its nine Senate-confirmed members, leaving only one appointed official to do the work of managing USPS activity alongside the Postmaster General and her management team. There are currently five nominees pending […]
With corporate-conservative calls for full or partial privatization of the United States Postal Service (USPS) escalating, groups are sounding the alarm about new nominees to the USPS Board of Governors. The Senate is scheduled soon to consider the nominations of Mickey D. Barnett, James C. Miller III and two other nominees. Miller is a notorious […]
September 30, 2015 APWU, Federal Unions and Civil Rights groups sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid expressing opposition to USPS Board of Governors nominees —particularly James Miller III and Mickey Barnett. Stephen Crawford (D) was nominated by President Barack Obama in June 2012 for a term […]
The U.S. Postal Service loses hundreds of millions of dollars per year, in part because of competition from email and social media. People simply don’t send letters anymore. Several ideas have surfaced to improve the postal service’s bottom line, but the board which oversees its operations is essentially paralyzed. The problem is political. It turns […]