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The association was founded on September 8, 1908, at a conference in Louisville, Kentucky, as the National Association of Supervisory Post Office Employees.It became NAPS in the early 1920s, and by 1925, it had 5,500 members.
The board oversees the activities of the Postal Service, while the postmaster general actively manages its day-to-day operations. [2] The board directs "the exercise of the power" of the Postal Service, controls its expenditures, and reviews its practices and policies. [3] It consists of 11 members; 6 are requisite to achieve an ordinary quorum.
The full eagle logo, used in various versions from 1970 to 1993. The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas and associated states.
An inspector general probe into the U.S. Postal Service surveillance program, known as iCOP, concluded that the agency did not have the legal authority to conduct the sweeping intelligence ...
The Postal Service grants mail cover surveillance requests for about 30 days and may extend them for up to 120 days. Mail covers can be requested to investigate criminal activity or to protect national security. On average the Postal Service grants 15,000 to 20,000 criminal activity requests each year. [1] It rarely denies a request.
The current USPS inspector general is Tammy Hull, who was appointed by the governors of the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service on November 29, 2018. She is the USPS's third inspector general, [5] who served as Deputy Inspector General from November 2011 and was acting Inspector General from February 2016 until her appointment.
In 2018, the inspector general alerted postal leaders that more than 100 supervisors in the Boston area had changed time records, deleting hundreds of work hours from 814 postal employees over a ...
The rate of postal pay was set by the Congress by federal law, meaning that the Postal Service and its employees were deeply affected by Congress. The NALC strongly supported the Postal Reorganization Act. NALC's expertise has traditionally been in lobbying rather than in traditional labor-management relations and collective bargaining.