The U.S. Postal Service last week rolled out a new plan that would allow the nation’s smallest post offices to remain open.
A bill that would require federal employees to contribute an added 5 percent of salary to their pensions advanced late last month in the House of Representatives.
The sponsors of a postal reform bill recently passed in the Senate have asked the postmaster general to delay the closing of post offices and mail processing facilities until the legislation is signed into law.
While members of the Senate who are leading the charge to reform the U.S. Postal Service last week began debate on a retooled draft of what they call “a reasonable and bipartisan postal reform bill,” that legislation still falls short in the eyes of postal unions.
A leading FEHBP health expert offers his insights on the U.S. Postal Service's proposed health plan, as well as perspectives on a USPS reform bill currently in the House.
What do a failed congressional health plan, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., and a USPS proposal have in common? Maybe more than you think.
Postal unions are urging members to use the current Senate recess to lobby their senators to reject a bipartisan postal reform bill if the legislation's sponsors fail to remove measures that unions say would prove disastrous for USPS.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe last week told members of a House subcommittee that the Postal Service’s plan to create its own health insurance system would produce savings and provide equal or better benefits.
A member of Congress is asking the Postal Regulatory Commission to release a study that projects the impact that proposed mail service cuts and downsizing efforts would have on the revenues of the U.S. Postal Service.
The U.S. Postal Service this month bolstered its five-year plan with updated legislative recommendations and projections—including a timeline for downsizing the postal workforce by 155,000 full-time positions. USPS said the plan would produce savings of at least $20 billion a year by 2015.