Since the late 1990's Postal Service employees have been allowed access to military coorespondence courses for self-training in technical fields.  This has been widely used to improve KSA scores for placement on registers for Maintenance Craft positions.  At one time it involved a written application process that included endorsement by an employee's supervisor; it then evovled into enrollment and participation via the internet.

The Postal Service provided the military resources for this training sponsorship for its employees' enrollment, and the military allowed Postal employees this access.  Not long ago access to these training opportunities halted.  Discussions were taken up with the Postal Service at headquarters level to find out what the problem was.  Naturally, it has turned out the problem was not with the military, but was the Postal Service.  To date the Postal Service has refused or declined to resolve this problem.

Assistant Maintenance Craft Director Greg See is presently pursuing this issue and will seek to enforce upon the Service its prior (negotiated) commitment to provide this resource to Maintenance Craft employees.