Saeed Tavakkol, an Operations Industrial Engineer with the U.S. Postal Service in the Seattle NDC, filed this appeal after a denial by the Merit Systems Protection Board. Mr. Tavakkol asserted that intolerable working conditions caused him to suffer anxiety, depression, and physical pain and coerced him to resign. The US Court of Appeals for the […]
May 15, 2026 Applications for APWU’s Leadership Institute are now open through June 26. The Leadership Institute is an intensive three-week educational program, held one week at a time over three months. The program focuses on topics ranging from organizing, bargaining, and representation to legislation, community alliances, and building the APWU and union movements. The […]
May 15, 2026 The Postal Service has announced the availability of special semipostal stamp T-shirts and is reminding managers and employees of the rules for promoting semipostal stamps. The organization offers four semipostal stamps, which raise money for specific causes, and sets aside four months each year to promote them: • September for the Alzheimer’s stamp; […]
The U.S. Postal Service maintains an unrivaled presence in American life, utilizing more than 33,000 retail locations and a workforce of over 640,000 employees to reach every home and business six days a week. While USPS’s primary mission is mail and package delivery, it also manages a portfolio of nonpostal government services that generated $387 […]
May 14, 2026 The Postal Service is reminding employees and contractors to be aware of the growing social engineering threat to the organization. Social engineering is the use of deception and psychological pressure to influence people to divulge confidential information or grant unauthorized access to systems and data. Unlike traditional cyberattacks that exploit system vulnerabilities, […]