April 29, 2012

Rep. Gohmert Addresses Map Error Made by USPS on Closing of Tyler Postal Processing Facility

Rep. Gohmert Addresses Map Error Made by USPS on Closing of Tyler Postal Processing Facility

PMG: Patrick R. Donahoe on Post Office Closings

The Senate passed legislation this week to preserve post office services as the agency faces financial problems.  The 37th Postmaster General, Patrick R. Donahoe, joins us this week on Newsmakers.
He discusses the Senates bill, if and when it will move forward in the House and changes the agency plans to make in the future with regards to consolidation of post offices. He also talks about an array of options for restructuring the national mail system, which is losing $25 million per day.
Our guest reporters are Bernie Becker of The Hill and Michelle Jamrisko of Bloomberg News.
The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill to postpone for one year the Postal Service’s own plan to save money by closing 3,700 post offices and consolidating hundreds of processing centers. The bipartisan Senate bill aims to save money through early retirements of some 100,000 employees, and it would restructure the USPS health care benefit system.
The House has not yet acted, and most Democrats there oppose a proposal by Rep. Darrell Issa for a commission that would close many post offices and processing centers.
 The Postmaster General says he needs to cut $22 billion in operating costs by 2016. His plan calls for ending Saturday mail service, overnight mail, and shutting many post offices.


Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe on Newsmakers | C-SPAN

April 02, 2012

TransGuardian: FedEx and UPS Invoice Shock? Use USPS Instead!

TransGuardian: FedEx and UPS Invoice Shock? Use USPS Instead!

PMG Touts Importance Of Innovation and Technology for Mailing Industry

PMG Touts Importance Of Innovation and Technology for Mailing Industry

More Than 100 House Members Join Connolly, Young Letter on USPS reform

More Than 100 House Members Join Connolly, Young Letter on USPS reform

Shut Out at the National Postal Forum

Orlando – The theme of this year’s National Postal Forum here at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center is innovation and technology. There’s even an Innovation & Technology Pavilion inside the exhibit hall. The first session I went to this morning was called, “Innovations in Technology & Delivering Product Information,” but when I reached the session room I was told there was no room.

Many others wanting to attend this session on mailing innovations and technology were also shut out of the session. When I tried going to another session at the same time that too was “sold out” with standing room only. One attendee said: “I didn’t pay $800 to come down here and get shut out of these sessions.”

It was an overly packed house for Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s opening session today, but there were no warnings of the breakout sessions being overcrowded. Attendees are arriving early for these sessions, I was told, so I’ll need to arrive plenty early to get a seat in the afternoon sessions I hope to attend.

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Transguardian: FedEx and UPS Invoice Shock? Use USPS Instead!

Transguardian: FedEx and UPS Invoice Shock? Use USPS Instead!

TransGuardian President Jim Moseley Speaks at National Postal Forum