Vickie's News Letter
TENNESSEE NAPUS NEWS
July 17, 2010
It is raining in East TN, which Sam and I are so very thankful for ... See the News Letter for more
details.
These are the latest news letters we've issued; check our
archives for earlier issues.
Breaking News on NAPUS.ORG
Congratulations go out to Robert Wakefield, Postmaster of Burns and TN NAPUS Career Development Chairman. He is the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Benjamin Award! Our District Manager will be presenting the award to Robert on behalf of Postmaster General Jack Potter. Way to go Robert! We are so proud of you!
Effective June 12, 2009 TNNAPUS and NAPUS will no longer send correspondence or information to email addresses ending with usps.gov. If you wish to continue to receive TNNAPUS and NAPUS information, a home email address will be required. Until then some of you will receive duplicate emails, we apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.
TNNAPUS President elect, Vickie Shipley is in the process of building her email address list as well for her first day in office on September 17. If you would like to receive Vickie's newsletter beginning September 17, 2009. Please email her at vshipley@chartertn.net.
As a reminder TNNAPUS offers free email addresses to it's members. If you are interested in taking advantage of this free service. Please contact Tim Knipp at tnt1997@tnnapus.org.
RETIRING TYPE?
HERE’S A WEBSITE FOR YOU
In the past five years, 185,000 employees have retired from the Postal Service.
Many haven’t lost interest in what’s happening at USPS and want to stay informed. So the Postal Service has created a website, keepingposted.org, with daily updates on what’s going on at USPS. The site includes an archive of USPS news releases, speeches, reports on stamp events and articles that appear in Link.
Articles also feature accomplishments of retired employees. For example, check out the spotlight on postal retiree Lenora Clark, who is enjoying her retirement as one of the top women in American boating. The site also contains health and wellness tips, links to other useful websites and information about how retirees can volunteer their services in their communities.
Retirees can communicate with website managers or spotlight former employees by sending an e-mail to keepingposted@usps.gov.
NAPUS HOTLINE
PowerPoint on the new MOU for route adjustments. Documents you may find helpful. If you have Microsoft Word, or another word processing program which will
open Word documents (clink here
to
download a free, open source, office suite of programs), you can click the
"Printer Friendly" link for these documents and they will open for printing.
News Letters
Robert Wakefield
Go to Postal Ease, look under benefits. About third from the bottom on the right is NARECS annuity estimates. You have to be within four years of minimum retirement qualifications. Give your employee ID, your pin, and select your date that you are considering retirement. Once you submit it, it will take about 3-4 weeks and you will receive it in the mail at your official address. A very good tool.
Also there is another link to help you save for retirement; located on this same page are several links to help figure in your TSP.
eNAPUS Legislative and Political Bulletins
Here is a list of Room numbers and Phone numbers for the House of Representatives for your info.
The attached two (2) Memorandums of Understanding are now being provided to the field as information after having been negotiated between the Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers. The MOUs address the following important issues:
Melissa Simonich: Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers / Alliance Report
Rural
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