Postal workers at a delivery office in south Bristol are planning more strikes in a workload dispute.
About 100 postal workers at a delivery office in south Bristol are staging a second one-day strike.
Postal workers at a delivery office in east Kent are striking on Saturday over the reorganisation of services.
Unions representing postal, utility and delivery staff have long argued for laws to be extended to cover attacks in dog owners' homes, saying this is a "major loophole" in the law and their workers - as well as others - need more protection.
The legislation limits the agency's ability to close postal branches and stop Saturday delivery.
For many years, the annual appropriations bill has contained a rider that prevents the Postal Service from ending Saturday delivery.
In an effort to reduce costs, it was announced early this morning that the U.S. Postal Service would end Saturday delivery in August of 2013.
For years, Congress had attached a rider to its annual appropriations bill requiring the Postal Service to provide six-day delivery.
Even the U.S. Postal Service closed post offices and suspended mail delivery Saturday in New England.
Communication Workers Union (CWU) claim postal workers are "struggling to complete increased delivery rounds".
The Postal Service has been irradiating congressional mail since delivery to the Capitol resumed in January.
The U.S. Postal Service closed post offices and suspended mail delivery on Saturday in all of New England.
Some have said Saturday letter delivery could be ended if the Postal Service kept delivering packages and express mail on the weekends, as was planned.
For example, the bill makes it difficult for the Postal Service to implement its plan to cut delivery to five days a week to reduce costs.
Donahoe, postmaster general and CEO, says Postal Service market research and other research has indicated that nearly 7 in 10 Americans support the switch to five-day delivery as a way for the Postal Service to reduce costs.
FORBES: Postal Service To Cut Saturday Delivery, Save $2 Billion
There is no reason why the U.S. Postal Service cannot also become a leader in the global delivery sector.
Over the past several years, the Postal Service has advocated shifting to a five-day delivery schedule for mail and packages and it repeatedly but unsuccessfully has appealed to Congress to approve the move.
"While we have actively participated in conversations around postal reform, and in particular, five-day delivery, we did not expect the USPS would act unilaterally, without congressional approval, and we await Washington's reaction and more details, " said its president, Mary Berner, in a statement.
The Postal Service said it would end Saturday first-class mail delivery beginning Aug. 5 in an effort to curb losses.
"Although disappointed with this congressional action, the board will follow the law and...delay implementation of its new delivery schedule until legislation is passed that provides the Postal Service with the authority, " the board said in a statement.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Postal Service is set to ask Congress for permission to end the delivery of letters on Saturdays.
The Postal Service took the rare step of closing post offices and suspending mail delivery Saturday in New England.
The Postal Service is in the midst of a major restructuring throughout its retail, delivery and mail processing operations.
The Postal Service "will continue its planning for the August implementation of the new delivery schedule, while Congress debates, " spokesman Dave Partenheimer said Friday.
The head of the National Association of Letter Carriers said the postal-workers union would fight the president's push for five-day delivery.
It calls for reducing mail delivery to five days starting in June two months earlier than the Postal Service previously announced.
The French postal service, for example, has used it to help its workers choose the best delivery routes, and pharmaceutical researchers are using it to determine molecular structures by combining their gut instincts with known results stored in a database.
He said the number of postal votes being delivered on election day to polling stations and obtained through last-minute Royal Mail delivery arrangements was growing.
BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Election counts could be delayed
应用推荐