Government Executive
Union proposes commission
to help USPS ‘work smarter’

June 15, 2012 -- Following his participation in a panel discussion about the future of the Postal Service at the Postal Vision 2020 conference in Washington, NALC President Fredric V. Rolando told Government Executive that a comprehensive bill to reform the Postal Service should include a mandate to establish a business commission with representatives from the agency’s many stakeholders, which would ensure that ideas for new revenue streams and ways to deal with USPS’ mandate to prefund retirees’ health care benefits were handled objectively.

On June 18, the NALC sent out to 690 radio stations around the country a news feed recorded by Pam Donato that discusses the Carrier Alert program, the free, cooperative community service program that allows America’s letter carriers to help their elderly or homebound customers when something may be amiss.