Erie P&DC not on new list 4-24-12

Postal management held a employee meeting with the news that Erie will be off the chopping block with the proposed legislation in the Senate under S1789.  On Wednesday, the Senate passed S1789 with ammendments that would preserve the overnight delivery standard in our area.  The bill now moves on to the House where the Republican majority will try to remove those provisions in the Senate bill that seek to preserve service.  Write your representatives in Congress and let them know your thoughts!

Representatives for the Erie area are:

Congressman Mike Kelly

Email Mr Kelly at https://kelly.house.gov/contact-me/email-me

or write a REAL letter or call at

515 Cannon HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5406
Fax: (202) 225-3103

Senate Passes Postal Service Reform S1789

April 25, 2012

WASHINGTON, April 25 - The Senate today voted 62-37 for a bill that Sen. Bernie Sanders helped craft to modernize the U.S. Postal Service, save tens of thousands of jobs and spare rural post offices and scores of mail sorting plants threatened with closure.  Read full article here..

Senator Collins Blasts the PMG 3-19-12

Erie's AMP now public

The National Postal Mail Handlers Union has posted 134 of the 223 facility AMP studies and ours can be found here.  Scroll down to page one under "Background Information" and look at these numbers; 

Bargaining Unit Hours per Year: 1,745

EAS Hours per Year: 1,822

Now there is a fine example of lopsided overhead costs.  It's all grim but at least it's now all out into the open.  It's ironic there will be a net increase in EAS positions when all is said and done.  (page 5)

A big glaring hole in the AMP is the Service Standard Impact.  TBD = To Be Determined and all the relevant data is zeroed out.  So, we can assume the decision to go ahead with approval has nothing to do with service.   Thought so.

A fine synopsis on all the data provided by the 134 AMPs made public so far can be found here at savethepostoffice.com.

Fire the PMG petition expires with too few signatures

Sign the Whitehouse.gov petition to fire the Post Master General

Text of petition: "Postmaster General Donahoe is forging ahead with his plans to dismantle the Postal Service by lowering service standards and overnight delivery. His plans have NO support from the public, the employees and most elected officials. Yet he forges ahead like a dictator. As Postmaster, he should be looking for ways to grow the business, not decimate it. The closing of thousands of Post Offices and Processing Plants around the country will put the Postal Service on the road to ruin. The "studies" the USPS supposedly did have proven to be frauds and outright lies. HE NEEDS TO BE REPLACED BEFORE HE RUINS THIS 200+ YEAR INSTITUTION!"

Go here to sign the petition.