Senator Tester Continues His Fight To Strengthen Montana’s Rural Post Offices 4/7/16 (U.S. Senate) – Senator Jon Tester is urging the Postmaster General to abandon the U.S. Postal Service’s (USPS) consolidation plan that would shutter mail processing facilities across the nation and likely cost the Postal Service millions of dollars. The USPS’s Mail Processing Network […]
USPS Commits to Take Fresh Look at Postal Plans Plans to Consolidate Postal Facilities Remain in “Deferred Status” WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Postal Service (USPS) on Friday responded to U.S. Rep. McSally’s calls to update studies used to propose the consolidation of postal facilities around the country, including the Cherrybell Postal Processing facility […]
Video: APWU demands answers after 5 workers die at Pontiac facility in 14 months March 10, 2016 American Postal Workers Union leaders are demanding more answers and further investigation after five US Postal Workers at the mail center in Pontiac have died on the job. These deaths happened in a 14-month time frame, the latest […]
March 4, 2016 Press Release U.S. Representative Martha McSally today led a bipartisan group of 33 lawmakers to inquire about the United States Postal Service’s progress on revisiting plans to potentially consolidate mail processing centers around the country, including the Cherrybell Postal Processing Center in Tucson. Rep. McSally has led ongoing advocacy efforts for the […]
December 4, 2015- The NPMHU has prevailed in the first phase of its National arbitration against the Postal Service challenging many of the proposed closings and consolidations of mail processing plants under the Area Mail Processing guidelines found in Handbook PO-408. National Arbitrator Shyam Das has concluded, in his interim award, that the Handbook PO-408 […]
12/04/2015 – Arbitrator Shyam Das ruled on Dec. 3, 2015, that the American Postal Workers Union and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union may now go forward with their Step 4 grievances challenging the Postal Service’s decision to close or consolidate approximately 82 mail processing facilities starting January of 2015. The grievances had contended that […]
A little over a week ago WDIO-TV reported that an internal source said all mail from Duluth, Iron Ranger and the North Shore will no longer be sent down to St. Paul (Minnesota) to be processed. However, there are no other media sites reporting on this news. Update: From reader Sorry….big mistake made by Duluth management. […]
Postal Processing Returns to Duluth, Minnesota The postal service moved mail processing from the facility on W. Michigan Street in Duluth, MN to St. Paul, MN earlier this year. However, according to media reports the move added several days to mail delivery times. Postal customers, union members, Gov. Mark Dayton, Congressman Rick Nolan and U.S. […]
Friday September 04, 2015 Washington, D.C.– Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) is set to introduce legislation to prevent the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from closing any post office or postal facility that serves a high-growth ZIP code – including the facility at Tucson/Cherry Bell – which is slated for closure in 2016, moving all Arizona […]
Search for missing mail reveals serious problems with Sandston postal facility September 1, 2015 SANDSTON, Va. (WRIC) — A Richmond man is on a mission to find his missing mail. In April, photographer Steve Carr filled an envelope with negatives and shipped it off to a photo lab in California, but that envelope never made […]