News & information

August 2011

The Postal Record, Vol. 124, No. 8

Cover story

• What would Google do? Searching for the Postal Service's future

News and features

• Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Ruth Goldway's Q&A explains why six-day delivery is essential to the Postal Service's future
• Issa attacks appropriations language; Issa and Ross' "comprehensive" postal reform bill comes up short
• NALC improves the e-Activist Network
• What to do if your branch has lost its tax-exempt status
• Bargaining opens August 18
• Florida Food Drive activist remembered
• Debt ceiling stalemate dangerous for nation and letter carriers
• Labor in focus: NALC members work on recall efforts; AFGE wins TSA election; Election fairness at NRLB
• Inside Mary's Room: Carrier makes cancer patients more comfortable
• NALC readies for MDA 'satchel' drive
• Plaque to recognize carriers killed
• Books to help NALC charities
• Monthly columns by national officers and staff members

• President's Message

  To explain today's Washington, go ask Alice about Wonderland

• What would Google do?

  Searching for the Postal Service's future.

• Bargaining opens August 18

  Also: Florida Food Drive activist remembered.

• Attacks continue as August begins

  The phrase, “6-day delivery and rural delivery of mail shall continue at not less than the 1983 level,” is what grants Congress a say in USPS’ number of mail delivery days. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) has asked that the language be “unprotected.”

• Springing into e-action

  NALC improves, strengthens e-Activist Network

• What to do if your branch has lost its tax exempt status

  A number of NALC branches recently received notice from the IRS advising that their tax-exempt status had been revoked because they failed to file the proper forms over the past three years.

• Q & A: PRC Chairman Ruth Goldway

  Part 1 of a Postal Record interview with Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Ruth Goldway, interviewed in her office in Washington, DC, on July 1.

• Debt ceiling stalemate dangerous for nation and letter carriers

  With many legislators tying any extension of the debt limit to long-term debt reduction and to spending cuts, the process could ultimately affect letter carriers’ pay and benefits.

• NALC members work on recall efforts

  Also: AFGE wins TSA election. The NLRB has proposed changes to the way union representation elections are run.

• Inside Mary's Room

  Carrier makes cancer patients more comfortable

• NALC readies for MDA satchel drive

  Also: Books to help NALC charities. Plaque to recognize carriers killed.

• Executive Vice President

  Are you ready? And are you doing all you can do?

• Vice President

  Question 5

• Secretary-Treasurer

  Bonding-it's the law; revocation of tax-exempt status

• Assistant Secretary Treasurer

  Bylaws: What's missing?

• Director of City Delivery

  Article 12-Witholding and excessing update

• Contract Talk

  Documentation for limited duty

• Director of Safety and Health

  Keep a watchful eye on each other

• Director of Retired Members

  Paranoid or paranoia

• Monthly CSRS annuity payments

  for letter carriers who retire on Nov. 1, 2011

• FERS retirement benefits

  for letter carriers who retire on Nov. 1, 2011

• Director of Life Insurance

  Insurance predators

• Director of Health Benefits

  Medicare enrollees

• MDA Coordinator

  'Fill the Satchel' coming soon!

• Compensation Department

  New FECA regulation

• Director of Education

  Preparing for local negotiations

• Letter from the Editor

  NALC resolve to respond to media misrepresentations about USPS finances.