Relevance of PRC Decision In Network Optimization Review
Right now the Postal Service has committed to Congress to hold off closing postal facilities and implementing Network Optimization Initiative (NOI) until mid-May. This date is two months before the...
View ArticleThe Postal Service Business Plan: the Result of Choosing a Government...
The Postal Service today presented a 5-year business plan that it calls a Plan for Profitability. The plan represents the impact of the investment bank Evercore partners and clearly indicates that...
View ArticleImpact of USPS Consolidations on Employees
Last week, the Postal Service provided employees significantly more information regarding the scale of the changes coming to its operations and for many employees whether the facility they now work at...
View ArticleNearly one-third of APWU Mail Processing Jobs Cut in Eastern Area
Looking at the APWU job cuts as a proportion of total APWU jobs by craft shows the extent of the impact on individual employees and provides some idea as to the impact on mail handlers, supervisors,...
View ArticleOptimized Postal Service Infrastructure
The Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General recently asked me alonge with Cliff Guffey, President of the American Postal Workers Union, John Callen, Director of Ursa Major Associates, LLC, to...
View ArticlePolitics, Network Optimization and Early Retirement
As Senator Susan Collins’ speech on the Senate floor indicated, the Postal Service’s announcements that it is going ahead with its network optimization plan shortly after the moratorium expires on May...
View ArticleWhat Happened to USPS Early Out Notices?
Boy did I blow it. I thought the Postal Service was actually going to implement its network optimization on the schedule they told mailers, unions, and management associations. That schedule would...
View ArticleS.1789 Is Unlikely To Save Overnight First Class Mail As We Know It
Section 201 of S.1789, The 21st Century Postal Reform Act, purports to save overnight delivery. However, a closer look at the language of this section of the bill shows that an overnight delivery...
View ArticleSeparation Incentives for Postmasters and Other Postal Employees
This week the Postal Service announced an early retirement incentives for Postmasters as part of its restructuring of rural retail service. This announcement will likely be the first of a set of early...
View ArticleSenate Appropriations Committee Actions Could Slow USPS Actions
The Washington Post has reported that the Senate Appropriations Committee passed the finance and general government appropriations bill that 1) retained maintained the requirement that the Postal...
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