FERS Employees May Be Eligible for Annuity Supplement

APWU Web News Article #143-12, Nov. 28, 2012 USPS Retirement Incentive Information Newsbreak, 10/01/12: USPS Offers Retirement Opportunity   To APWU Employees [PDF] LiteBlue: APWU Incentive at a Glance [PDF] LiteBlue:   Frequently Asked Questions [PDF] Employees covered by the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) who are contemplating retirement should consider that they may be eligible […]

APWU employees face decision

Incentive offer deadline Full-time career  employees in the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) bargaining units have  until Monday, Dec. 3, 2012, at 8:30 p.m. EST to take advantage of their special  incentive offer. Part-time employees and non-traditional, full-time  employees with schedules less than 40 hours per week have until Jan. 4, 2013 to  accept the […]

USPS offers early out retirement to more than 3,300 EAS employees

From USPS News Link: As part of its ongoing efforts to increase operational efficiencies and reduce costs, the Postal Service is proceeding with several organizational changes, effective Aug. 25. These changes include: Continuing activities related to mail processing operations at Processing and Distribution Centers and Post Offices affected by Phase Iof the network consolidation plan. […]

Video: State of the Postal Service: Targeted Incentives and VER Will Be Offered

In the video Postmaster General says,”Targeted incentives and VER will be offered. Information now being finalized.” State of the Postal Service Postmaster General Pat Donahoe will have an update on network consolidation plans. And, he will recap plans for Post Offices in rural areas. “As the PMG explained, with the May 15 moratorium now past, […]

Postmasters Continue Discussions with USPS on VER and Incentives for Retirement Eligible Employees

  On December 6, 2011, NAPUS President Bob Rapoza and League President Mark Strong met with Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and agreed to re-open Postmaster pay talks. This agreement was reached in the midst of the selection of a fact-finding panel from a list of panelist received from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. If […]

USPS Wants to Offer Eligible Postal Workers Early Retirement?

As Don Cheney pointed out: With all the other commotion going on, most eligible postal employees have overlooked this. I’m amazed anyone would retire right now without waiting to see what comes out of Congress by November 18th, the new deadline for USPS to make its $5.5 billion payment. 

USPS Pacific Area to offer VER to carriers and clerks

USPS Newsbreak: Voluntary Early Retirement to be offered to carriers and clerks in select locations In a move to further right-size complement levels to better match workload, the USPS Pacific Area is offering a voluntary early retirement (VER) to carriers and clerks working at select impacted sites and at non-impacted offices within a 50-mile radius […]

General Notices sent to Postal Employees affected by Possible Reduction in Force

Last week marked two critical milestones in the 2011 Organizational Redesign process. Monday, April 25, was the deadline for employees who accepted the Postal Service’s 2011 Special Incentive Offer. And Thursday, April 28, General Reduction in Force (RIF) Notices were sent to employees who could be affected by a potential RIF in their competitive area.

2,000 postal employees take $20,000 buyout offers

“More than 2,000 U.S. Postal Service administrators have signed up for an early-out deal that will give them $20,000 in return for leaving their financially struggling employer by the end of next month, a spokesman said Wednesday. Two thousand three employees applied by the Monday deadline, spokesman Mark Saunders said. .Their departures will account for […]