Brian's Scoop
National Convention Update:
Attention Associate Members
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Brian Wagner
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Not that I want to be like a "redundant report" at the Postal Service, but I want to again address a concern I heard at a recent NAPS state convention regarding Associate membership. Here's the scoop!
I am aware of some members who will be retiring at the end of July. Congratulations. As a friendly reminder, NAPS Associate membership is not automatic. If you are planning to attend the National Convention as a branch delegate and you retire before the convention, you need to make sure you are listed as an Associate member in our NAPS membership database.
At the National Convention, I will provide the Registration & Credentials Committee a list of all NAPS members, both Active (USPS employed) and Associate (USPS retired). This list will be used for membership verification as of August 13, 2012, one week prior to the start of the convention. You may have been an Active NAPS member at the time you registered for the National Convention.
However, if you have since retired, did you notify NAPS headquarters in writing that you wanted to become an Associate member? If not, most likely you are not listed in our membership database as an Associate member. Therefore, you would be ineligible to be a delegate at the National Convention.
It is extremely important that recent retirees verify their NAPS membership with their branch.
Your most recent branch DCO is for May 2012. We will process the June DCO in mid-July. Just as important, if you plan to be a delegate at National Convention and plan to retire, make sure you have completed and mailed an Associate Membership Form -1187A to NAPS Headquarters before August 13, 2012.
If you recently completed an 1187A, but have not seen your name listed on your branch DCO as an Associate, please contact NAPS headquarters immediately, so we can investigate.
We may have you in the system as a new Associate, but it was after the current DCO was processed. We want to avoid having any Associate member, designated to be a NAPS delegate, miss the opportunity to represent their branch and members at the National Convention.
As we celebrate our nation's birthday this week, I think it fitting that my ice cream flavor of the week recommendation is -- Baskin Robbins' America's Birthday Cake� ice cream. God Bless America!
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