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News Archive: Page 40
Branch Officers Training
In Las Vegas, NALC held another Branch Officers Training session, tailored to help elected branch leaders learn more about their roles and duties.
Changing FEGLI premiums may affect retired letter carriers
If you are a retired letter carrier who carried your FEGLI coverage into retirement, and if life insurance premiums are coming out of your annuity payment every month, some changes may apply to you.
NALC Veterans Group: 7,000 members (so far)
To date, more than 7,000 NALC members have joined the NALC Veterans Group, which was designed to provide all members who are military veterans access to information and tools specific to veterans’ rights and benefits within USPS.
ECONOMICS BLOG: USPS’ results for Oct. & Nov.: $772M operating profit
For the first two months of Fiscal Year 2016’s first quarter (October and November of 2015), the U.S. Postal Service had a $772 million operating profit.
Preparing for working in cold
Temperatures may have been moderate in much of the country so far this winter, warns NIOSH Director John Howard, M.D., but that doesn’t mean there’s no need to prepare for working safely in the cold this year.
ECONOMICS BLOG: 2015 USPS results: $1.2B operating profit
The U.S. Postal Service had a $1.2 billion operating profit in Fiscal Year 2015, the second consecutive year where operating profits went over $1 billion.
USPS OIG: ‘Top 10 Postal Stories of 2015’
The staff at the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General put together a top 10 list of postal stories. Of note: USPS’ $1.2 billion operating profit, an end to First Class Mail’s free-fall, and the end of the line for LLVs.
New York Times opinion piece: ‘Why the Post Office Makes America Great’
In an opinion piece for Sunday’s New York Times, a writer from Turkey had high praise for “a place that is as enchanting to me as any winter wonderland: my local post office.”
POSTAL FACTS: Dec. 29, 2015 (updated)
NALC Pres Rolando in Echo Press [MN]; letter carriers from Royal Oak, MI Br. 3126, NJ Merged Br. 38 and York, PA Br. 509 in the news; NALC Chief of Staff Sauber in The Washington Post; Columnist praises letter carriers in Deming [NM] Headlight.
NALC President Emeritus James H. Rademacher: 1921-2015
James H. Rademacher, national president of the NALC from 1968 to 1977, has died.
NALC Legislative Update: May 9, 2014
Issa announces new postal ‘compromise’ bill; Vincent Sombrotto Post Office naming; Senate subcommittee holds hearing in honor of public service recognition week; recess
Pew survey ranks U.S. Postal Service as most favorable federal agency
A national poll by the Pew Research Center, released Nov. 23, found the USPS ranked as the most trusted federal agency, with favorable ratings given by 84 percent of those polled.
POSTAL FACTS: Dec. 3, 2015 (updated)
NALC President Rolando in The Economist, Newsweek; Kearney, NE Br 312 Pres Nickerson in the Hub; Idaho State President Paige in Press-Tribune, Times-News
Update on cyber attacks
NALC has received word from OPM advising that postal employees and retirees were affected by the hack of OPM.
NALC President Rolando’s statement on USPS’ FY2015 financial report (updated)
NALC President Fredric Rolando’s statement on the release of USPS’ financial report for Fiscal Year 2015. Updated to include press coverage.
Rolando fêtes Customer Connect’s $2B milestone
President Rolando recently visited a Florida post office to celebrate a special Customer Connect milestone.
POSTAL FACTS: Nov. 10, 2015 (updated)
Pres Rolando in Washington Times; 2015 Hero Symonette in Sun; MI member on WOOD; 2015 Hero Curtis in Weekly Packet; OH member in Repository; 2 NC carriers in Free Press; 2015 Hero Gallegos on KTXL; ID State Pres Paige’s letters in Statesman, Times-News.
Official summary and final vote tally report for the director of retired members election
The Department of Labor’s Office of Labor-Management Standards has released a final tally report for the recent national director of retired members election.
Combined Federal Campaign
As federal employees, letter carriers can participate in the world’s largest annual workplace charitable giving program, the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC).
Study: Millions depend on trillion-dollar postal industry
The Envelope Manufacturers Association Foundation’s (EMA) Institute of Postal Studies recently released its latest “Mailing Industry Job Study.”
Tell your reps to co-sponsor H.R. 3696 and S. 2148
Urge your senators and representative to co-sponsor a bill aimed at preventing a potential 52 percent increase in Medicare Part B premiums in 2016 for nearly 7.5 million Americans, including certain letter carriers covered by both Medicare and CSRS.
Does election of Canada’s new PM end cluster-box conversion there?
The “Save the Post Office” blog analyzes what Monday’s election outcome in Canada might mean for the future of Canada Post’s plans to end door-delivery of mail there.
NALC responds to Brookings paper on USPS
NALC President Fredric Rolando has written a letter to the author of a Brookings Institution paper calling for the breakup and privatization of USPS.
Florida State President Emeritus Giordano died Oct. 2
Florida State Association of Letter Carriers President Emeritus John Giordano died on Oct. 2.
POSTAL FACTS: Oct. 16, 2015 (updated)
NALC President Rolando’s letters in Los Angeles Times, Washington Post; Idaho State President Paige’s letter in Coeur d’Alene Press; Heroes coverage by Miami [OK] News-Record, USPS, E!, People, Tulsa World