Postal Plan Addresses Insurance, Other Employment Issues
The Postal Service’s newly announced reorganization plan seeks relief from several employment-benefits related funding obligations and further seeks to shift …More
The Postal Service’s newly announced reorganization plan seeks relief from several employment-benefits related funding obligations and further seeks to shift …More
The Postal Service has announced a limited early retirement opportunity effective April 30 for certain non-bargaining unit employees at headquarters, …More
The outlines of the latest postal reform effort on Capitol Hill are starting to take shape, with the House Oversight …More
Due diligence “shouldn’t end after a contract is awarded” but should continue through all further contracting actions with that provider, …More
An inspector general audit of three Postal Service facilities in the Baltimore area found safety issues at all three and …More
Actions the Postal Service took at the outset of the pandemic “likely saved lives and certainly increased employee safety,” but …More
The Postal Service has been overpaying some claimants under the Federal Employees Compensation Act, says an inspector general report on …More
Overtime for Postal Service employees increased by a third over 2014-2019 with the number of employees earning more in overtime …More
The House’s passage on Saturday of a Postal Service bill likely will be the last action by Congress on pandemic-related …More
Paul Steidler, Lexington Institute The U.S. Postal Service is being whipsawed like a child in a nasty custody case as …More
Several USPS initiatives designed to reduce workplace illness and injury-related costs have shown results, an IG report has said, while …More
The Postal Service has announced a hiring freeze on management positions and has said it will ask OPM for permission …More
The Postal Service is “not effective” in managing informal grievances, whose numbers and costs have been increasing in recent years, …More
The U.S. Postal Service needs to be fixed. Its management and Board of Governors agree. The U.S. Government Accountability Office …More
Key Republican leaders in Congress have raised further doubts as to whether the USPS will receive the financial help it …More
The Postal Service IG has said that landlords of leased postal facilities are not performing repairs as required by their …More
The impending death of the U.S. Postal Service has been proclaimed so many times in the last decade that it …More
The USPS has issued several directives to employees on speaking with news media and the public and posting on their …More
After four Coronavirus-relief measures were quickly enacted into law, controversies are arising that threaten to thwart passage of a fifth …More
The Postal Service remained the most favorably-viewed federal agency in a recent annual poll by the Pew Research Center. In …More
An IG report has found that turnover among first-line USPS supervisors is notably low but that about two-thirds of them …More
Democratic leaders of committees overseeing the Postal Service have urged the Treasury Department to quickly make available to the USPS …More
The Postal Service has stated that so far it has experienced only minor operational impacts as a result of the …More
The Postal Service inspector general’s office has said it is continuing to see “deficiencies” in building maintenance, safety and security …More
Turnover among non-career employees at USPS fell slightly over 2018-2019 from 42.8 to 38.5 percent but that is still above …More
The House has joined the Senate in passing S-375, to improve efforts to identify and reduce governmentwide improper payments and …More
Overall numbers of federal employees and the numbers of those who left the government remained stable in the most recently …More
The Postal Service over-stated savings from shifting to lower-paid and less tenured employees and reducing services, and did not account …More
Same-day delivery of goods ordered online is growing rapidly but is still too small to represent either a significant threat …More
The Postal Service could leverage its facilities and daily activities to provide more services but that “would not likely significantly …More