USPS OIG – Sure Money Process and Performance
The Postal Service offers outbound international money transfer services through both international paper money orders and Sure Money, an electronic money transfer service.
Pay Cuts Have Rural Letter Carriers ‘Scared’ and ‘Outraged’
Thousands of letter carriers at the U.S. Postal Service are starting to see new schedules that have reduced their hours and cut their pay, causing significant anxiety within the workforce.
USPS OIG – Package Tracking Messaging
We recommended management develop package status descriptions that explain missing scan events and enhance explanations for messages such as for “Out for Delivery”, “In Transit”, or nondescriptive facility names on its tracking websites.
NALC – Seven additional installations added to all-career model
The Postal Service is required to convert all city carrier assistants in the identified installations to part-time flexible career status as soon as practicable, but no later than the first day of the second full pay period following the date of the respective agreement.
Mailers defend the PRC’s public inquiry into Delivering for America
On April 20, the Postal Regulatory Commission opened a Public Inquiry docket to examine the Postal Service’s Delivering for America plan, particularly the initiative to relocate carriers from post offices to large Sorting & Delivery Centers.
NALC contract negotiations update
On Feb. 22, NALC and the Postal Service officially opened collective bargaining for the 2023 USPS-NALC National Agreement. Since then, ongoing bargaining committee discussions as well as main table negotiations have taken place on specific issues that affect city letter carriers.
NAPS Achieves Updates to Supervisor Workload Credits
After years of gathering data, analyzing the data and then being denied changes by past postal leadership, a revamped Supervisor Workload Credit (SWC) system was announced by the Postal Service on Friday, March 27, 2023.
NALC statement regarding increased attacks on letter carriers
Due to increasing instances of criminal acts, including targeted and violent attacks, being committed against city letter carriers, National Association of Letter Carriers Executive Vice President Paul Barner issued the following statement.
APWU National Presidents Conference Rallies at Postal HQ Against Cuts, For Better Service
Hundreds of postal workers demonstrated outside of USPS headquarters on Tuesday, May 9 at a rally coordinated by the APWU National Presidents Conference.
Postal workers are ‘outraged and angered’ by a 78% rise in robberies that target them, often at gunpoint
Robberies of postal carriers have exploded, surging 78% to nearly 500 in 2022, according to data provided by U.S. Postal Inspection Service to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act.