The APWU filed a complaint with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) on Sept. 5, 2013 charging that the USPS is failing to comply with its own service standards and is depriving individuals, small businesses and organizations of the service they are entitled to by law. The Postal Service’s failure to comply with the law is […]
Updated 7/2/2015 – – USPS Network Rationalization Consolidation Phase II-2015. USPS latest list of “public” changes/updates to the Phase II-2015 USPS Network Rationalization Consolidation list. Most of the plant consolidations that were scheduled to take place this summer as the final stage of the Network Rationalization Initiative has been deferred. The only plant consolidation scheduled […]
Updated 6/26/2015 – – USPS Network Rationalization Consolidation Phase II-2015. USPS latest list of “public” changes/updates to the Phase II-2015 USPS Network Rationalization Consolidation list. Most of the plant consolidations that were scheduled to take place this summer as the final stage of the Network Rationalization Initiative has been deferred. The only plant consolidation scheduled […]
USPS announced major changes to the Phase II-2015 USPS Network Rationalization Consolidation schedule. USPS suspended all remaining closures and consolidations from a scheduled move date in 2015 to “To Be Determined.” USPS plants Asheville, Houston P&DC and Queens P&DC are the only exceptions. Asheville consolidation was completed on May 30,2015. Houston and Queens are still […]
USPS plant Consolidations update – Most activities deferred until 2016 Postal Service has decided to defer most of the plant consolidations that were scheduled to take place this summer Most of the plant consolidations that were scheduled to take place this summer as the final stage of the Network Rationalization Initiative will be deferred, the […]
USPS: Planned Network Consolidation Phase 2 activities will resume in 2016 The consolidation of the Tucson Cherrybell postal processing center has been postponed from this summer to next year. “The Postal Service has extended the timeline for most of the mail processing consolidating activities originally planned for this summer,” the U.S. Postal Service said in […]
Mail Plant Closure Moratorium Postal Activists Declare Victory May 26, 2015 Postal workers and their community allies were jubilant upon hearing of a national moratorium on mail processing plant closures. Last Friday, the US Postal Service released an update on “network consolidation” which postponed the closure date of the Bend and Eugene/Springfield plants to a […]
Contract Negotiations Begin Bosses to Union- “NEXT?” Report Of APWU Western Region Coordinator Omar Gonzalez At the start of contract negotiations covering more than 200,000 postal workers postal bosses revealed they have little interest, if any, in bargaining over issues critical to Union negotiators. When the Union’s Chief Negotiator submitted the union’s first proposal over […]
McCaskill: Postal Service ‘ essential to rural America’ Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill used a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee meeting to discuss the urgent need for reforms to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to help protect delivery service for Missourians in rural communities. “Speaking on behalf of hundreds of thousands of […]
1.9.15 – 2015 USPS Plant Consolidation Schedule Updated January 9, 2015. The list of postal facilities below show the most recent changes . Nearly all of the remaining postal facilities show N/A= not applicable for processing Delivery Point Sequence (DPS) letters and flats mail in activating facilites.. USPS Plant Consolidation Schedule Updated January 9, 2015 […]