Agency News
Moving Closer to Five Day Delivery for Postal Service
The Postal Service Board of Governors has approved the agency's request to move forward with its five-day delivery proposal and to file a request for an advisory opinion…
Postal Service
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Court Cases
Demotion of 28-Year Employee Upheld in Court
An appeals court has let stand the demotion of a Postmaster to a Supervisor in the Sacramento District of the US Postal Service.
Court Cases
Mitigation or Demotion for this Postal Supervisor?
A post office Supervisor who was demoted to Clerk based on unsatisfactory performance failed to convince the appeals court to mitigate the penalty to a suspension.
Federal Workforce News
Postal Service Customer Satisfaction Reaches 4-Year High
94 percent of customers surveyed rated the Postal Service as "excellent, very good or good" in the period July 1 to Sept. 30, 2009.
Court Cases
Delivering Mail and Kissing The Customer Leads to Removal
A mail carrier was accused by a woman of stepping into her house to personally deliver mail to her, pushing her behind a door, grabbing her and kissing…
Court Cases
Divorce is a State of Mind–But What About the Federal Health Insurance?
A federal employee said she was divorced but kept her ex-husband and his two children on her federal health insurance policy. An investigator found that a divorce decree…
Court Cases
Work Now, Grieve Later–Or Pay the Consequences
A federal employee with a record of disciplinary actions refused to obey an order from a supervisor. An administrative judge ordered reinstatement but the MSPB disagreed and upheld…
Court Cases
Court Sends Case Back to MSPB For Penalty Review
A 19-year postal employee with no prior misconduct worked at a Post Office where she supervised clerks and served as the finance supervisor. She was demoted to a…
Court Cases
13 Years and Still Filing Appeals to Recover a Lost Federal Job
How many appeals from a federal employee are too many? When a decision starts out with the sentence such as "This is yet another chapter in the protracted…
Court Cases
Involuntary Resignation? Unpleasant Choices Don’t Equal Involuntary Resignation
A federal attorney did not want to move to Arlington, VA from Texas so she resigned. She then filed an appeal contending that the resignation was involuntary and…