The U.S. Postal Service said it would offer buyouts and early outs to the nation’s 21,000 postmasters.
The chairman of the Postal Service Board of Governors said that although Senate leaders “worked very hard” to create and pass a bill to reform the U.S. Postal Service, that bill nonetheless fails to address the new fiscal realities challenging the agency.
The sponsors of a recently passed Senate postal reform bill have asked the postmaster general to delay the scheduled closing of post offices and mail processing facilities until the legislation is signed into law.
The Senate on April 25 approved a bipartisan postal reform bill that its sponsors say will put the U.S. Postal Service on firmer financial footing.
As promised, federal food inspectors, consumer groups and others on April 20 presented about 150,000 petitions to the Agriculture Department opposing proposed changes in the way poultry is inspected.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it will bolster its mental health staff by adding about 1,600 clinicians.
Federal food safety inspectors plan to present the Agriculture Department with thousands of petitions opposing proposed changes to the inspections process in poultry processing plants.
A new report examining the financial straits of the U.S. Postal Service emphasizes the urgent need for Congress and the beleaguered organization to come up with a strategy for stemming ongoing USPS losses.
Federal professionals with expertise in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) will support a new effort to cultivate an interest in those skills among students in Defense Department elementary and secondary schools.
Department of Agriculture poultry inspectors and others demonstrated outside department headquarters to protest proposed expansion of a pilot program that uses processing company workers instead of federal employees.