FAQ’s

If you need a reason for joining NAPS, here are three: representation, information, and opportunity. Over 27,000 NAPS members have representation where it counts–at Postal Service Headquarters and on Capitol Hill. Whether the issue is pay, benefits, or working conditions, you have a qualified group of professional advocates working on your behalf, especially in times of real need. or approved cases, NAPS’ Disciplinary Defense Fund provides a trained advocate for members facing removal, reduction in grade, and postal financial indebtedness (Debt Collection Act).From the EAS employee’s perspective, members also receive information on legislation, postal policy, and ways of achieving your career goals. Area training seminars are held on a variety of topics. Our annual legislative training seminar in Washington teaches grass roots legislative techniques and provides information on bills of interest to members. Perhaps most important of all, NAPS members have the opportunity of becoming better informed and more efficient, while making the USPS a better place to work. NAPS exists to raise the standard of efficiency, to widen the field of opportunity and to improve the quality of the work environment for those members who make the Postal Service their career. You may join NAPS by completing a Form 1187, authorizing dues withholding, and returning it to your local branch officer. Be a part of a dynamic organization that works for you.  Complete your Form 1187 today.

If you are recruiting a new NAPS member who is an active employee of the Postal Service, please include your personal information at the bottom of the Form 1187 of the member you are sponsoring.  The Form 1187 includes a section, NAPS SPONSOR, at the end of the form to record your information as the recruiter.  Please include your full name, branch number, and mailing address in the NAPS SPONSOR section.  When NAPS HQ receives the Form 1187 of a new member, as the sponsor, you will receive a $25.00 check in the mail.  Please allow up to 30-45 days to receive your sponsor award ($25 check).You must be an active Regular or Associate member of NAPS in order to be credited as a NAPS recruiter.

To be a sponsor, you do not have to be affiliated with the same branch where the new member is joining.  Only one sponsor can be listed for each newly recruited NAPS member.  If an employee is already a NAPS member, and a duplicate Form 1187 is submitted to our headquarters on their behalf, NAPS HQ cannot credit a second recruiter.  If the NAPS SPONSOR section of the Form 1187 is left blank NAPS HQ understands that there was no local recruiter for the application.  Executive Board members may be listed as NAPS SPONSORS, but will not receive a sponsor check.  NAPS Sponsorship is not recorded or credited for the recruitment of new Associate members.

If you are a NAPS member and have a change of address, or are not receiving The Postal Supervisor magazine, please send your address information to NAPS headquarters (napshq@naps.org) or to your local NAPS branch.  When contacting NAPS HQ, please include your full name, and if possible, branch and/or finance number, to make sure we can correctly identify your NAPS membership profile in the database.  Please feel free to supply your non-postal e-mail address and phone number as well, so that we may include this information in your member profile.  NAPS HQ does not sell or distribute your personal information to outside sources.  NAPS HQ relies on your important updates to keep our member information accurate.

For all regular dues-withholding members who move from one branch to another, your dues amount automatically adjusts through USPS payroll and NAPS cannot control this change.

At the end of each month our system notifies USPS payroll to process any member dues changes as needed, according to USPS scheduling.  When your local affiliation changes from one branch to another your dues are immediately directed to your new branch regardless of the deduction amount.  No action is required on your part to also change your dues or the deduction amount. You will see any dues change reflected on your paystub before it appears on the local branch membership report, since our reporting is done a month behind real-time.  NAPS dues are noted on your paystub as Union Dues – S.

If you see another letter besides “S” next to the deduction, this means that the dues are for another organization.

• NAPS members are automatically affiliated to a branch, local or state, based on their USPS finance number.

  If a USPS finance # is not already affiliated with a local branch, then that office will be affiliated with the State branch per the NAPS National Constitution & Bylaws. In most cases, the NAPS database affiliates members appropriately based on their USPS finance #.

  Local NAPS branch officers review their monthly membership reports and contact will contract NAPS headquarters if changes or inquiries are needed.  For example, the name of an active branch member may disappear from the local membership report because they had a USPS finance # change that affiliated the member to a different NAPS branch.

  Sometimes a member’s office of physical domicile is different from their employing office.  If so, a member is eligible to fill out an Exception Form to request affiliation with the NAPS branch located in their domicile location.  The form must be submitted to the respective NAPS Area V.P., who will investigate the request and send it to NAPS HQ for concurrence by the entire Executive Board.

  Exception Forms are available for download in the Members Only section of our website.

If you need a reason for joining NAPS, here are three: representation, information, and opportunity.

Over 27,000 NAPS members have representation where it counts–at Postal Service Headquarters and on Capitol Hill.

Whether the issue is pay, benefits, or working conditions, you have a qualified group of professional advocates working on your behalf, especially in times of real need.

or approved cases, NAPS’ Disciplinary Defense Fund provides a trained advocate for members facing removal, reduction in grade, and postal financial indebtedness (Debt Collection Act).From the EAS employee’s perspective, members also receive information on legislation, postal policy, and ways of achieving your career goals.

Area training seminars are held on a variety of topics. Our annual legislative training seminar in Washington teaches grass roots legislative techniques and provides information on bills of interest to members.

Perhaps most important of all, NAPS members have the opportunity of becoming better informed and more efficient, while making the USPS a better place to work. NAPS exists to raise the standard of efficiency, to widen the field of opportunity and to improve the quality of the work environment for those members who make the Postal Service their career.

You may join NAPS by completing a Form 1187, authorizing dues withholding, and returning it to your local branch officer.

Be a part of a dynamic organization that works for you.  Complete your Form 1187 today.

• NAPS members are automatically affiliated to a branch, local or state, based on their USPS finance number.

  If a USPS finance # is not already affiliated with a local branch, then that office will be affiliated with the State branch per the NAPS National Constitution & Bylaws. In most cases, the NAPS database affiliates members appropriately based on their USPS finance #.

  Local NAPS branch officers review their monthly membership reports and contact will contract NAPS headquarters if changes or inquiries are needed.  For example, the name of an active branch member may disappear from the local membership report because they had a USPS finance # change that affiliated the member to a different NAPS branch.

  Sometimes a member’s office of physical domicile is different from their employing office.  If so, a member is eligible to fill out an Exception Form to request affiliation with the NAPS branch located in their domicile location.  The form must be submitted to the respective NAPS Area V.P., who will investigate the request and send it to NAPS HQ for concurrence by the entire Executive Board.

  Exception Forms are available for download in the Members Only section of our website.