POSTAL NEWS

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4.28.2010

Speak your mind on Postal Changes or sit back and take it!

USPS Public comment needed


Contact the PRC with your comments on saving the USPS. Provide your suggestions and help protect your job and your pay. This is the time to speak up or let others dictate your career. Stop the postal death spiral and large mailer discounts. Insist on Universal Service Coverage.   
Source: www.prc.gov

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4.19.2010

Postmaster general says USPS could cut its workforce


"... cut Saturday mail delivery, raise postage rates and potentially close or consolidate thousands of post offices. The proposal also calls for cutting tens of thousands of jobs through attrition and layoffs...."  
Source: www.washingtonpost.com




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4.08.2010

FEHB Program Expected to Cover Dependents Until Age 26


"... The effective date of this provision is the first day of the plan year that is six months following enactment of the law. For the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, that means January 1, 2011. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is expected to take the necessary actions to comply with the new law by this effective date. OPM will be providing additional information on its website in the near future about this and other changes to FEHBP plans for the 2011 plan year that will occur based on passage of the PPACA, so that mail handlers and other postal and federal employees and retirees will have the necessary information in time for the Open Season, which begins in November 2010...."  
Source: www.npmhu.org




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4.05.2010

USPS asks public opinion on eliminating Saturday delivery


"...Members of the public are invited to share their views on the commission website at www.prc.gov by clicking the “contact PRC” tab to access an online service form. ..."  
Source: bdtonline.com




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