Celebrating the Dedication of EAS Employees
By Chuck Mulidore
NAPS Executive Vice President
As the holiday season unfolds, we are reminded of the unique and vital role the United States Postal Service plays in connecting families, communities and businesses across the nation. For EAS supervisors, managers, Headquarters employees and postmasters, this time of year is not just busy—it is a defining moment of leadership, dedication and service.
Each day during the holiday season, EAS employees step forward to ensure operations continue without pause, employees are supported and the public can rely on the Postal Service to deliver joy, connections and essential communications. Your guidance ensures that high volumes of mail and packages are managed efficiently, staffing challenges are met with skill and fairness and your employees remain motivated, focused and respected during one of the most demanding times of the year.
NAPS celebrates the extraordinary efforts of all our members who lead with integrity, compassion and expertise. Peak season is an “all-hands-on-deck” mission. Your work exemplifies the absolute best of what it means to be an EAS employee: balancing operational demands with human leadership, solving problems before they escalate and fostering an environment where every employee can succeed. Not to mention the personal responsibilities you balance with your families during the holiday season. It is during this time of year, when challenges are magnified, that your commitment shines the brightest.
NAPS’ mission is to ensure supervisors like you have the support, resources and recognition you deserve—not just during the holidays, but every day of the year. Your leadership touches every corner of the Postal Service and every community we serve, reminding us all of the critical role all EAS employees play in shaping a service that Americans trust and depend on.
This December, let us celebrate the tireless dedication, skill and heart that our great EAS employees bring to their work each and every day. Take pride in your accomplishments, cherish the teams you lead and remember that your efforts make a profound difference—both for the Postal Service and the American people whose lives you impact.
Even as the Postal Service undertakes a massive reorganization of the nation’s mail processing facilities, you all continue to persevere. You do all of this for one reason—because you care! You put up with all the negatives directed at you by multiple postal and outside sources because you care.
You are the one thread that runs through all the challenges. You are the one constant that always comes through for America.
NAPS appreciates you and all you do for the Postal Service and your families. NAPS understands what you do each day in service to the public. You are the ones who come to work to face the challenges, the ones who run the plants, cover the vacancies, run the delivery units, get the trucks out on time and provide the support functions for all that goes into delivering the nation’s mail.
You are keeping the promise of more than 250 years that this essential agency—America’s Postal Service, created by the Founding Fathers in the U.S. Constitution—would survive. And so it does, and always will, because of you.
In celebration of Christmas, Hannukah, Las Posadas, Bodhi Day, Kwanzaa or however you celebrate this time of year, please have a joyous and wonderful holiday season and a happy new year filled with many blessings to you and your families. God bless.
This is partially true, but it ignores the contributions of these employees to the continuing failures of the USPS. Too many NAPS employees are ill suited for their jobs and have no clue how to motivate employees to work for, not against them. Their positions are the result of aggressive DEI initiatives or the buddy system ingrained in the USPS. Nowhere else can an individual without a college degree and no skills make over 100k with no accountability. The USPS will continue to spiral downward unless Steiner terminates the worst of NAPS employees.