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Tools of the Trade
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Several years ago the United States Postal Service (USPS) migrated from the Drop Ship Appointment System (DSAS) to Facility Access and Shipment Tracking (FAST) as the system for making drop ship entry appointments. There was a feature in DSAS that did not make the migration – Facility Condition Reporting. This was a very helpful tool in scheduling appointments by postal facility in that it provided a picture of the health of the facility at a given point in time... |
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Cuts and Closures
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In a meeting with the editorial board of the Federal Times on March 9, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe stated that his goal is to downsize the Postal Service by 30,000 people this year, mostly through attrition. He added that if further reductions in force or buyouts are required to reach that number, the Postal Service will use them. Recently there has been some debate about what a reduction of 30,000 Postal Service employees means... |
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How to Save on Postage – Part Two
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Maximizing Worksharing Discounts |
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Fundamental Questions for the Future of the Postal Service: How Would You Answer Them?
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In February, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), issued a white paper entitled, Fundamental Questions for the Future of the Postal Service. In the paper, the OIG posed eight questions that it thought were fundamental for determining the role of the Postal Service in the 21st Century... |
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Here is a sampling of industry news
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Target Marketing: Media Usage Forecast 2011. There are some new trends—social media may be this year's email, SEO has only gotten hotter...
Charleston Daily Mail: Rare is the occasion when all five members of the West Virginia congressional delegation - Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Joe Manchin, and Reps. Nick Joe Rahall, Shelley Moore Capito and David McKinley - will agree... AFP: Five US cities launched initiatives Tuesday, March 8, to let residents refuse junk mail, hoping to support the environment and cut expenses by stopping waste at its source... New York Times: For nearly as long as there have been pen, parchment and wars, there has been military mail. Even in the Internet age, it remains a huge morale booster for troops. The mere possibility of some buried goodie in a box, or some special piece of news in a letter, still makes mail call a bit like Christmas, soldiers in the First Battalion, 87th Infantry in north Afghanistan say... Postalnews Blog: APWU members demonstrated in front of the White House asking that the Administration return the billions of dollars the USPS has been overcharged for pension benefits. The demonstration was not endorsed by the union’s national leadership... Postalnews Blog: The new Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and Labor Policy, Congressman Dennis A. Ross, R of Florida’s 12th District has been posting tweets on the Internet of late with his own opinions of collective bargaining in the public sector... |
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