Cowboy State Daily: Cowboy State Daily: The U.S. Postal Service has quietly initiated a surcharge on package deliveries to rural areas, which includes much of Wyoming. The up-charges have been quietly slipped into Postal Service agreements with merchants like eBay. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has a few new uses for ZIP codes under his Delivering For America Plan, but that’s not all those … Read More
USPS to offer early retirement incentive to Mail Handlers
The National Post Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) and the Postal Service have signed off on a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) concerning a Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) agreement. According to the MOU, the Postal Service is offering lump sum incentive payments totaling $15,000 for full-time career employees who choose to retire: $10,000 to be paid on August 15, 2025 and $5,000 … Read More
IG, regulator bash USPS plans to slow some mail delivery
Government Executive: One of the U.S. Postal Service’s key reform initiatives is worsening service and raising costs, a recent inspector general report found, contrasting the agency’s claims about the impact of its changes. The IG said a pilot program to test USPS’ Regional Transportation Optimization plan, which requires mail to sit overnight at post offices instead of being collected each evening for … Read More
CPWU Winter 2025 Newsletter
The Winter 2025 newsletter from Communities and Postal Workers United has articles about the latest threat of postal privatization, privatization in foreign countries, workers battling the overhaul of the USPS, and the OIG report on the transportation optimization initiative to end after collections at post offices. Read the newsletter here.