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PRC Advisory Opinion on USPS Service Standard Changes, Warns of ‘Significant Negative Impact’
February 4, 2025
In October 2024, the United States Postal Service announced proposed changes to how it collects and distributes outgoing mail that would lengthen the delivery service standards for much of the country’s First Class Mail. Before implementing the...
Maintenance Part-Time Regular Payout Update (February 2025)
February 3, 2025
Maintenance Director Idowu Balogun provides an update on the Maintenance PTR Settlement Payout as of February 2025.
It’s Making Money from Operations
August 11, 2014
USPS management is doing its best to keep the good news quiet, but facts are facts.
According to reports released by the USPS on Aug. 11, as of June 30, three-quarters of the way through Fiscal Year 2014:
Operating income was up by about $1 billion...
Ask Senators: Stop Service Cuts and Plant Closures
August 11, 2014
The work of APWU members and supporters across the country is paying off: Fifty senators have agreed to co-sign a letter to the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee urging them to stop devastating cuts to America’s postal network.
To...
Maintenance Wins Significant Award
August 7, 2014
The APWU won an important arbitration award on August 06, when Arbitrator Shyam Das ruled that the Postal Service may not detail a maintenance craft employee to perform higher level work in a different occupational group to avoid paying overtime to...
The Senate Can Help Stop Service Cuts and Plant Closures
August 7, 2014
A move by the USPS that will slow America’s mail service and that threatens tens of thousands of jobs requires an urgent response, said APWU President Mark Dimondstein.
On June 30, the USPS announced its intention to close and consolidate 82 mail...
e-Team Report, Aug. 1, 2014
August 1, 2014
On June 30th, USPS announced its intention to close and consolidate 82 mail processing facilities in 37 states throughout the country beginning in January 2015. Today, August 1st, 2014, service standard changes were printed in the federal register...