LTS Recap - March 21, 2012
National Association of Postal Supervisors
LTS Recap - March 20, 2012
For those of you who were in Washington last week for the 2012 NAPS Legislative Training Seminar and met with your Congressional lawmakers and staff to press for action on the NAPS Legislative Agenda, THANK YOU for your efforts.
LTS Delegates Take the Hill on Postal Reform and Cuts in Retirement Benefits
Some 600 NAPS delegates lobbied Congress last week on March 13-14 to promote sensible and comprehensive postal reform for the Postal Service. NAPS advocates received strong support from Senate and House offices against closures of mail processing plants and post offices, against reductions of mail delivery standards, and support for the realignment of the retiree health prefunding burden that has roiled the Postal Service's finances.
In addition, NAPS delegates also urged Congress to refrain from using federal and Postal Service workforce benefits as a piggybank to trim federal deficit spending.
The timing of NAPS' overtures to the Senate on postal issues was excellent. Senate floor action on postal legislation (S. 1789) could come as early as next week.
LTS Follow-Throughs
If you attended the LTS -- please be sure to mail the Congressional lawmakers and staff with whom you and your delegation met a personal thank-you note, along with an acknowledgment of important commitments they made. If they asked for further information on any issue that stumped you, please be sure to let Jay Killackey or Bruce Moyer know so that we can be responsive.
Full coverage of the highly-successful LTS will appear in the May issue of the Postal Supervisor magazine.
Be a Legislative Star
If you attended the LTS and have high-resolution digital photo(s) of your LTS delegation's visits with House Members and Senators, we want to include as many photos as we can in The Postal Supervisor magazine.
By March 23, please send high-resolution .jpg files of one or more of your Capitol Hill photo(s) to Ray Martin at: r.martin85@comcast.net Please be sure to send along information that identifies the people in your photo, by left to right, along with the pertinent NAPS branch number and location.
Congressional Visit Feedback
If you attended the LTS and have not turned in your Congressional Visit feedback form, please mail, email or fax it (703-836-9665) to NAPS Headquarters, Att: Elliot Friedman.
LTS Legislative Training
Bruce Moyer's powerpoint presentation is available on the NAPS website in the Members (Only) Section, under Forms and Documents, Miscellaneous, Legislative Affairs.
Bruce Moyer
NAPS Legislative Counsel