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Updated June 24, 2009
Letter carriers who have applied for voluntary early retirement (VER), requested retirement counseling and were not provided with counseling prior to the irrevocable date of June 19 should contact their National Business Agents.
The NALC and Postal Service have settled a national level grievance filed on the Postal Service’s application of their National Reassessment Process (NRP). NRP is a management program that was devised to reassess all current limited duty job offers and to reassess how future limited duty job offers are made. The NALC, from the outset, has maintained that NRP cannot compromise injured employees’ rights under 546 of the ELM.
The plan, however, drew strong reaction from other elected representatives, including U.S. Rep. Albio Sires. "This is unacceptable," the congressman said in an e-mail."The United States Postal Service continues to blindside the public with decisions that intimately affect our communities and that have harmful effects on their ability to access necessary services. Due to USPS' continued disregard for transparency, I have introduced H.R. 658, the Access to Postal Services Act, which gives communities more of a say in the post office closing process. It's time we give communities the ability to fight back against these closings."
A member of Congress has acknowledged that the time may have come for Congress to consider permitting the Postal Service to depart from the current six-day mail delivery requirement...
Phillip Herr, Director of Physical Infrastructure Issues at the U.S. Government Accountability Office said GAO may have to consider adding the USPS once again to its High Risk list...
Rep. Brian Bilbray said that there is nothing in the Constitution that requires that mail service be provided by government employees working for a government agency.
Special Agents reviewed Overtime Usage Reports and Managed Service Points (MSP) Exception Reports to identify excessive early, late, or missing scans that recurred over time for the same letter carriers and compared workload and resource usage."
The Postal Service is expected to announce its latest thinking on plans to cut operations and network costs on Wednesday, May 20, when the House postal oversight subcommittee holds a hearing on the hard choices and tradeoffs that underlie the preservation of the nation's mail system. The hearing, "Nip and Tuck: The Impact of Current Cost Cutting Efforts on Postal Service Operations and Network," will be held by the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia, chaired by Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA). According to the Subcommittee, the hearing will focus on: "What are the hard choices and tradeoffs that need to be considered as mail volume declines significantly? What options should be considered to overcome barriers and facilitate the Postal Service in making significant progress in "rightsizing its networks?" How much cost does the Service need to take out of its network and operations to remain solvent and how will it be achieved? What impact, if any, will cuts have on service?" William P. Galligan, USPS Senior Vice President, Operations, is expected to testify, along with witnesses from GAO, mailers, and postal employee organizations.
A bill intended to reverse changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act regulations that were implemented just before President Obama took office has been introduced in the U.S. House.
A training document jointly developed by the NALC and the Postal Service (M-01703), which details the parties' mutual understanding of the provisions of the Memorandum of Agreement, Re: Modified Interim Alternate Route Adjustment Process - 2009
The Modified Interim Alternate Route Adjustment Process (MIARAP) was among the hot topics during the National Training Conference and Rap Session held in Las Vegas over the April 25-26 weekend.During the Sunday morning Rap Session, President Bill Young told participants that MIARAP "is the future and we all need to support it."
"The legislation would credit postal and federal workers with unused sick leave when determining the amount of their FERS annuity. Currently, only employees covered by the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) receive credit for unused sick leave. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has found that FERS employees approaching retirement use significantly more sick leave than CSRS employees."
" The parties agree that in a stable and consistent mail volume environment, a historical review of data over a longer period would be preferred and the parties will continue to pursue a permanent process which encompasses the regular carrier's office and street time."
"Declining mail volume, budget cuts, and equipment problems are forcing the U.S. Postal Service to rework its plans for the Flats Sequencing System. The deployment schedule for Phase I of the system has been pushed back a couple of months, while the coverage area for the 100 machines has been expanded. Those machines will go instead to about a dozen locations that will be added to Phase I, according to one source."
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Postal workers won an important legal victory March 30, when a district court judge upheld the right of the APWU and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) to pursue a lawsuit against the Postal Service and the USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for "widespread and systematic intrusions" into the medical records of their members.
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