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Management Reducing Package Presort Discounts

June 14, 2024
The Postal Service is in the early stages of eliminating the deepest of several discounts where package consolidators sort to the Destination Delivery Units (DDUs) and five-digit presort.

Industrial Relations Director Charlie Cash Announces 2025 Annual Leave Exchange and Carryover MOUs

June 13, 2024
Industrial Relations Director Charlie Cash Announces 2025 Annual Leave Exchange and Carryover MOUs

Seeking COPA Success Stories

January 14, 2008
The APWU is asking local and state organizations to provide information about members who deserve recognition for their fund-raising activities on behalf of APWU COPA. The March/April edition of The American Postal Worker magazine will include a...

TSP Considers Restrictions on Inter-fund Transfers

January 11, 2008
Members of the Federal Employee Thrift Investment Board have authorized the TSP Executive Director to implement restrictions on inter-fund transfers as a result of what is being termed “excessive frequent trading” by a small number of TSP...

Union President Asks Locals, States To Seek Support for Subcontracting Legislation

January 9, 2008
APWU President William Burrus has asked the union’s state and local presidents to encourage APWU members to write to their U.S. representatives and ask them to co-sponsor and support the Mail Network Protection Act (H.R. 4236). The bill, introduced...

They Love to Hate Us

January 7, 2008
Postal Points, a mailing industry newsletter, has enjoyed taking potshots at the APWU for quite a while, but the vitriol seems to have increased lately. And in a Dec. 21, 2007, article about the Omnibus Appropriations Bill that passed Congress late...

Retirees COLAs Reflected In January Checks

January 2, 2008
Cost-of-Living Adjustments for retirees, which took effect Dec. 1, 2007, will be reflected in annuity payments dated Jan. 2, 2008.  CSRS (Civil Service Retirement System) annuitants who have received benefits for at least a year received an increase...

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