Postal clerks will stop holding up the line with all those questions when you mail something. Some questions will still be needed for security reasons, but clerks no longer have to run through a litany of whether each customer wants a return receipt or insurance or other special services. It was like “Do you want […]
The following is an article written by Stephen Lysaght, APWU President, East Bay Area Local #47 located in Walnut Creek, CA. The issues raised in his article is happening in many USPS districts across the country–and not just in the Bay-Valley District. After years of excessing Clerks outside their installations and thereby gutting the workforce in […]
New Online Program for Postal Employees makes it next to impossible to take training tests on the clock. From APWU: [The APWU] Clerk Division officers recently reported on problems union members are facing since management established OASys, the Online Employee Scheduling and Assessment System. Many aspects of this program, which requires employees to schedule typing tests […]
Clerk Division delegates discussed job security at their pre-convention conference on Aug. 21 and 22, debating resolutions and discussing officers’ reports about issues affecting the craft. “It’s a tough time at the Postal Service this day and age,” said Jim McCarthy, Clerk Craft Director. On Saturday, delegates discussed resolutions, many of which focused on excessing. […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — A postal clerk from Indianola has been sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $240,000. The U.S. attorney says 47-year-old Kimberly Sue Nordhagen was sentenced Friday after admitting to converting Postal Service money orders and cash transactions to her own use. Nordhagen, who worked at […]