Relocating Retail Services; Adding New Retail Service Facilities
The Postal Service proposes to revise its current rules concerning the expansion, relocation, and construction of Post Offices to clarify its procedures and to require more information about certain types of projects to be provided earlier in the planning phase. Under the revised rule, the Postal Service will notify communities and officials, and solicit and consider their input, regarding proposals to relocate retail services or add a new retail services facility. The revised rule will also require the Postal Service to provide information about the anticipated new location for relocated services, or the new retail services facility, when the Postal Service first gives notice of the proposal.
Comments must be received by November 26, 2014.
The Postal Service proposes to revise 39 CFR 241.4 to clarify its procedures and to require the Postal Service to provide more information about certain types of projects earlier in the planning phase. The current rule prescribes procedures by which the Postal Service notifies communities and local officials of certain types of proposed facility projects, and solicits and considers the community’s input before making a final decision to expand an existing retail services facility, relocate retail services, or construct a new building to provide retail services. Under the proposed rule, the Postal Service will continue to notify communities and officials, and to solicit and consider input regarding proposals to relocate retail services or to add a new retail services facility. Additionally, however, the revised rule will enhance transparency by requiring the Postal Service to provide information about the anticipated new location for the relocated services, or for the new retail services facility, when the Postal Service first engages with the community and officials concerning the proposal.
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Ever hear that ol’ red wine bibbers lament , There Ain’t No California ? Well, still Ain’t No California !
LMAO !
USPS mgmt. “revises” rules on a daily basis, especially re labor contracts, but of course, also in any agreements with anyone.
Their ranks are infested with chronic liars, cheats, and thieves.
Oh boy, the USPS is going to take customer’s concerns into consideration! Well, that certainly is a relief. If you, the reader believe this, you are either a manager who has no choice but echo your superior’s directives, or you’re an incredibly gullible chimp.
It’s this attitude toward the customer that may backfire against Donahoe. Many Senators and Representatives have been lied to to their faces about plant closures and worsening service standards by Donahoe or his henchmen, and I would hope that one day Congress will have had enough. But that day must come soon. How blind does somebody have to be to see how terribly managed the USPS is?
Then we see idiotic stuff on their website like “empowering” disabled people. Does that extend to workers? Well, there are a few carriers in my office who have been injured or ill and have restrictions of various sorts, and I know there are untold amounts of the same workers who are routinely harassed, sent to doctors over and over, and treated terribly. Most injuries are related to the job, directly, in which case OWCP takes over if the management personnel who deal with this stuff stay out of the way. Guaranteed, you never want the USPS telling you how to do injury comp. They are out to screw you out of it.
So they are doing an empowerment program for the disabled? Look out. That’s a pathetic PR smokescreen to hide the possibility that hardcore harassment is coming down the pike. Go to the OWCP web site for on the job injuries, never see a postal doctor more than once and make them pay for it. Most USPS doctors have webbed feet and hate postal workers. I know the ones our office uses are horrible doctors. See that quack twice and he’s the physician of record, and you will be treated according to him, not your own physician. Empower the disabled? Management does that by paying themselves bonuses and gives the worst ones promotions.