OPM – New Postal Health Benefits Program a Strong Success
Nearly 1.7 Million Postal Employees and Family Members Enrolled, Sets Stage for Large FEHB Improvement
Month: January 2025
You can contribute more to the TSP
Postal Service employees can contribute as much as $23,500 to the Thrift Savings Plan in 2025, up from $23,000 in 2024.
USPS employees can take new leadership courses
The Postal Service is offering virtual courses for Executive and Administrative Schedule (EAS) employees through the Center for Creative Leadership, a provider of leadership development and research.
Privatize the USPS? Not in an Era of Crony Capitalism
The lesson here is that talk of “privatization” per se is meaningless without elucidating which kind of privatization is under consideration.
What’s Really Happening with SurePost?
On December 31, 2024, the UPS/USPS Negotiated Service Agreement (NSA) officially expired, marking the end of a long, mostly silent period of negotiations.
A final sendoff for 2 local postal workers
The U.S. Postal Service branches in Oswego and Fulton said goodbye Thursday to longtime employees Bob Salisbury and Don Slokowski.
USPS denies public information request in Havasu postmaster’s resignation
The U.S. Postal Service has announced that a letter of resignation by former Lake Havasu City Postmaster Deborah J. Tinnell will not be made public, one month after she was taken into custody on nine misdemeanor counts of shoplifting.
This carrier got shoppers to safety while a store was being robbed
Letter Carrier Nathan Slentz was delivering mail recently to a variety store in Lincolnton, NC, when a robber entered.
No, the president can’t privatize the U.S. Postal Service
Federal law says the government has to deliver the mail. It would take an act of Congress to change that.
Statements and reaction to the passage of the Social Security Fairness Act
President Joe Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act into law Sunday afternoon, the final step needed for nearly 3 million public sector employees, retirees, spouses and surviving spouses to begin receiving larger monthly Social Security payments.