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House puts damper on USPS plan for 5-day delivery
The fiscal 2013 spending bill doesn't remove the requirement for the Postal Service to deliver first-class mail six days a week. Other provisions in the bill povide a boost in funding DHS cyber, DoD acquisition and VA IT spending.
Tags: Congress , House , budget , management , House Appropriations Committee , DHS , DoD , VA , cybersecurity
Federal Drive Interviews -- Feb. 26, 2013
Kevin Brancato of Bloomberg Government talks about cuts Congress is facing from sequestration. Shawn McCarthy of IDC Government Insights discusses how much agencies are spending on cybersecurity. Attorney Debra Roth explains what rights employees have if they are singled out unfairly for furlough. Karen Heath of the USPS discusses how her office deciphers poor handwritten addresses. Peter Suber of the Harvard Open Access Project advocates for greater access to federally-funded research.
Tags: Kevin Brancato , Debra Roth , Shawn McCarthy , Karen Heath , Peter Suber , Harvard Open Access Project , Federal Drive
Postal Service fashion coming to a store near you?
The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service announced Feb. 19 it has inked a deal with the Cleveland-based Wahconah Group to launch an all-weather line of clothing. The clothing and accessories, to be branded with USPS trademarks, will be available at department and specialty stores beginning in 2014.
Tags: budget , Steven Mills , Jack Moore
New data analytics tool gives Postal Service IG head start on cases
Bryan Jones, the director of the Counter Measures and Performance Evaluation (CAPE) team in the U.S. Postal Service's Office of the Inspector General, said the development of a dashboard to help investigators visualize data more easily helped overcome initial resistance to these kinds of tools.
February 14, 2013
Tags: Ask the CIO , Jason Miller , data analysis , USPSOIG , performance evaluation , technology , big data , Bryan Jones
In Depth interviews - Feb. 14
On the In Depth show blog, you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.
Tags: Francis Rose , In Depth , sequestration , David Hendel ,
USPS makes case for ending Saturday delivery as postal reform push continues
The U.S. Postal Service's worsening financial situation led Postmaster General Pat Donahoe to announce last week the agency would end Saturday mail delivery beginning in August. But lawmakers on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee were divided over Donahoe's announcement. The postmaster general told the committee during a hearing Wednesday the decision was necessary to save $2 billion a year and to begin shoring up the service's funding shortfalls.
Tags: Congress , House , Senate , budget , Saturday delivery , Mark Pryor , Pat Donahoe , Tom Carper , Darrell Issa , Elijah Cummings , Tom Coburn , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
Postal Service lost $1.3 billion over quarter
Tags: Pat Donahoe , Joe Corbett
Postal Service's IG's office proclaims 2013 as year of mobile
Gary Barlet, the OIG's chief information officer, is taking a three-pronged approach to helping employees access data from anywhere, at anytime. The steps include virtualization, a BYOD strategy and cloud services.
February 7, 2013
Tags: technology , Gary Barlet , cloud , mobile computing , virtualization , BYOD , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller
Goodbye Saturday mail? Postal Service plans cuts
Tags: Federal Drive , Saturday delivery
Letter carriers union denounces move to five-day mail delivery
Tags: Saturday delivery , postal unions , NALC , Fredric Rolando
