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Waiting for the Third Shoe?

Many of my fellow 3PL and CEP cohort are anxiously aware of the current UPS / Teamsters negotiations on the UPS national contract (shoe #1.) and the FedEx / ALPA Pilots labor negotiations (shoe #2). But many of you may not know about ‘The Third Shoe’ in this year’s logistics sector cliff hanger – the US Postal Service’s current labor negotiations with its largest workforce segment, OVER 335,000 Letter Carriers delivering mail and packages to 12.7 million business addresses and 152.2 million residential addresses.

So, if even one of the trio shuts down for a few weeks, meaning the ‘brown boxes’ stopped getting delivered, and the ‘purple tails’ stopped flying, and the merry mailman stops ringing you bell this summer, who are you going to call?

NALC and the Postal Service open negotiations for sixteenth collective bargaining agreement | National Association of Letter Carriers AFL-CIO

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New Mailing Standards for Merchandise Return Service

SUMMARY:

The Postal Service is proposing to revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) to provide for new procedures for the processing and rating of Merchandise Return Service (MRS) pieces, and in the future, to transition all current MRS permit holders to use the new procedures.

New Mailing Standards for Merchandise Return Service

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NATIONAL MASTER – UNITED PARCEL SERVICE AGREEMENT 2018 -2023

NATIONAL MASTER – UNITED PARCEL SERVICE AGREEMENT

The Teamsters National UPS Negotiating Committee has released the National Agreement in Principle. “The proposed contract provides all our UPS members—full-time and part-time workers—with tremendous gains in wages, benefits and working conditions for years to come,” said Denis Taylor, Director of the Teamsters Package Division and Co-Chairman of the Teamsters Negotiating Committee.

The the agreement is available here UPS National Master Agreement, 2013 – 2018 6161478090_master_final.