Postal Service
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The Postal Service\'s sustainability measures are cutting energy usage across the board, and resulting in lower costs.
January 26, 2011 -
Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 requires federal agencies to adhere to more stringent financial reporting criteria, and the USPS goes even beyond that. We get details from the USPS\'s Linda Libician-Welch.
January 24, 2011 -
The first step USPS plans to make to address its financial crisis is reduce operating costs by reducing its workforce. Postmaster Patrick Donahoe gives us some details about what comes after that.
January 21, 2011 -
If you want a preview of coming attractions in your own agency, check out what is happening in the giant US Postal Service. It is looking at a major cutback of administrative personnel, consolidating post offices and relocating employees, not to mention possible pay and benefit changes. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says you could be next.
January 19, 2011 -
Patrick Donahoe became the 73rd Postmaster General Friday, assuming control of the Postal Service in the midst of a fiscal crisis. Donahoe said USPS will reduce its workforce by another 7,500 people in 2011. Still, he\'s optimistic about the future. In the short term, however, the reality is that postal workers are likely to suffer while the agency tries to balance its books.
January 17, 2011 -
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Prefunding USPS pension plans, says the Postal Service, is breaking them. Lorie Nelson, with the USPS OIG, has some surprising findings.
December 16, 2010 -
The recession and changes in the use of mail as transactions and messages go more and more electronic. How can the USPS keep up? The GAO\'s Phil Herr has details.
December 10, 2010 -
The USPS OIG has completed a new report to determined if contracting officers issued letters to contracting officer\'s representatives detailing their responsibilities and limitations and if invoices were properly certified. To explain what the means for us is the Postal Service\'s Judy Leonhardt.
December 09, 2010 -
Congress, unions, new Postmaster General all agree current payment structure for retirees is killing chances of USPS survival.
December 06, 2010 -
Outgoing Postmaster General John Potter joins the Federal Drive for an in depth exit interview.
November 30, 2010 -
The U.S. Postal Service has promised one approach to shrinking its continuing losses: Keep cutting jobs. Postal\'s 2011 financial plan calls for elimination of 50 million work hours, or about 25,000 jobs.
November 15, 2010 -
If the OIG\'s proposals were placed in effect, the Postal Service could potentially recover $142.4 billion. Details from USPS\'s Lorie Nelson.
October 13, 2010 -
Learn more about what Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) thinks Congress can do to help the U.S. Postal Service.
October 11, 2010 -
The U.S. Postal Service is now the only mailing and shipping company worldwide that provides packaging supplies that are \"Cradle to Cradle Certified.\" This means that all 175 materials used by its 58 suppliers to make stamps and stamped products have been assessed, and meet requirements for, their impact on human and environmental health, recyclability and compostability. The Postal Service says in 2009 it provided one billion eco-friendly mailing and shipping supplies to customers. Technology used to create biodegradable or recyclable materials have allowed the agency\'s sustainability initiatives to cut greenhouse gas production and to save money and resources. Specific achievements include a 10.8 trillion dollar reduction in British Thermal Units in energy use at their facilities since 2005, and $400 million dollars worth of savings in energy costs since 2007.
October 06, 2010