NAPS Chat
Weekly Legislative Insights Podcast
NAPS Chat is a weekly podcast intended to inform NAPS members about the latest legislative and political goings-on within our nation’s capital.
Hosted by NAPS Director of Legislative and Political Affairs, Bob Levi, naps.rl@naps.org.
You can subscribe to NAPS Chat on iTunes and Spotify.
May 21, 2026 | Episode 243
The Congressional Postal Caucus Delivers for America
Rep. Jack Bergman (R-MI), co-chair of the Congressional Postal Caucus, joins Bob to discuss the activities of the bipartisan panel and the importance of a universal, accessible, and affordable national postal system. The congressman and Bob also discuss postal accountability. Finally, in recognition of Memorial Day, Rep. Bergman, a retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General, reflects on how mail connects members of the armed forces deployed overseas with the family and friends back home.
Rep. Jack Bergman (R-MI) - Co-Chair of the Congressional Postal Caucus
Episodes
- Epsiode 228 August 1 2025 -- "Reporting on the Federal and Postal Workforce" with Former Washington Post Columnist Joe Davidson
- Episode 229 August 20 2025 -- "Vote By Mail Under Attack"
- Episode 230 September 4 2025 -- "Congressional Postal Caucus Established"
- Episode 231 September 19 2025 -- "Serving Supervisors, Manages and Postmasters Through Legislative, Representational and Operational Advocacy"
- Episode 232 October 10 2025 -- "The Evolving Postal Retail Network: Are Post Office Still Essential?"
- Episode 233 November 5 2025 -- "Preparing for the 2025 Postal Service Health Benefits Plan Open Season"
- Epsiode 234 November 20 2025 -- "In the Midst of the 2025 Postal Service Health Benefits Plan Open Season"
- Epsiode 235 December 9 2025 -- "Best-Selling Author Steve Grant: A Love Letter to the Postal Service"
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Episode 201 January 5 2024 (with Rep. Nikki Budzinski
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Episode 202 January 26 2024 (with former Congresswoman Connie Morella)
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Episode 203 February 16 2024 -- "Postal Chat with Rep. Kweisi Mfume"
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Episode 204 March 7 2024 "Live from NAPS Legislative Conference" with Kevin Kosar, AEI Senior Fellow
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Episode 205 March 22 2024 (2nd Anniversary of the Postal Reform Act with Rep. Gerry Connolly)
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Episode 206 April 5, 2024 - "Reflecting on the 2024 Legislative Conference" with NAPS Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore
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Episode 207 April 19 2024 - "Delivering for America Plan Under Senate Review" with Federal News Network Reporter Jory Heckman
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Episode 208 May 17 2024 "Conversation with PRC Chairman Michael Kubayanda)
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Episode 209 June 21 2024 - "Multi-Partisan Lobbying" with Frank MCarthy, CEO of McCarthy Advanced Consulting
- Episode 210 July 2 2024 - A Postal Patriot, Postmaster General John Creswell
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Episode 211 July 26 2024 - "Legislative Postal Snowball in the Summer" wiith Bob Levi
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Episode 212 August 19 2024 with Ashley Poling
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Episode 213 September 6 2024 -- "Repealing GPO -WEP: Ending Pension Discrimination" with Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA)
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Episode 214 September 27 2024 -- "Voting by Mail, An American Tradition" with Carrie Villar of the National Postal Museum
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Episode 215 October 16 2024 - "Welcoming the Postal Service's New Health Program" with Karla Kirby, Executive Manager of Postal
Service Health Benefits
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Episode 216 October 30 2024 -- "The 2024 Election" with NAPS Executive VP Chuck Mulidore
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Episode 217 November 11 2024 - "Inaugural PSHBP Open Season" with Jay Fritz of the Office of Personel Managment
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Episode 218 December 13 2024 -- "USPS Under Review" with Federal News Network Congressional Correspondent Jory Heckman
- Episode 219 December 24 2024 -- "Holiday History and Legislatuve Update" with NAPS Branch 32 President Robert Wakefield
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Episode 179 January 13 2023 (with NAPS Legislative & Political Affairs Director Bob Levi)
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Episode 180 January 20 2023 (with Steve Wermiel, Professor of Constitutional Law and Government at American
University Washington
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Episode 181 February 3 2023 (with Kevin Kosar, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute)
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Episode 182 February 10, 2023 (with CA Postal Legislative Coalition)
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Episode 183 February 24 2023 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore)
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Episode 184 March 10 2023 (with Nick Reaves of the Yale Law School Free Exercise Clinic)
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Episode 185 March 24 2023 (Postal Police Officers Assn. President Frank Albergo)President
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Episode 186 April 14, 2023 (with NAPS Executive Vice Preisdent Chuck Mulidore)
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Episode 187 April 28 2023 (with Karla Kirby, USPS Executive Manager for the Postal Service Health Benefits Program)
- Episode 188 May 19, 2023 (with NAPS Director of Legislative & Political Affairs Bob Levi
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Episode 189 May 25 2023 (with Joy Sanzone of USPS Office of Inspector General)
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Episode 190 June 16 2023 (with PRC Commissioner Ann Fisher)
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Episode 191 July 14 2023 (with Rep. Pete Sessions)
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Episode 192 July 28 2023 (with NAPS Excutive VP Chuck Mulidore)
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Episode 193 August 11 2023 (with Michael Plunkett, President and CEO of the Association for Postal Commerce
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Episode 194 September 8 2023 (with Tammy Flanagan, Founder of Retire Federal)
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Episode 195 September 22 2023 (with National Postal Museum Curator Lynn Heidelbaugh)
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Episode 196 October 6, 2023 (with Bob Levi, Director of Legislative & Political Affairs)
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Episode 197 October 27 2023 (with Former PRC Member Mark Acton)
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Episode 198 November 10 2023 (With Jay Fritz)
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Episode 199 December 8 2023 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore)
- Episode 200 December 22 2023 (with NARFE VP John Hatton)
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Episode 177 December 15, 2022 (with NAPS Michiana Area VP Kevin Trayer)
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Episode 176 December 9 2022 (with NAPS Director of Legislative & Political Affairs)
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Episode 175 November 23 2022 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore)
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Episode 174 November 14 2022 (with Jay Fritz, Office of Personnel Management Manager of Outreach and Program
Services
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Episode 173 November 4 2022 (with Tina Stoll, President of Campaign Finance Consultants)
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Episode 172 October 7 2022 (with NARFE Staff Vice President John Hatton)
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Episode 171 September 16 2022 (With Thomas Day, former USPS Senior Vice President for Government Relations)
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Episode 170 September 2 022 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore)
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Episode 169 August 11 2022 ( with Kimberly Guice, Director of Curatorial Affairs of the National WW II Museum)
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Episode 168 August 4 2022 (with NAPS President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 167 July 22 2022 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore)
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Episode 166 July 8, 2022 (with Eddie Monroy, Executive Director of the NextGen Chamber of Commerce)
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Episode 165 June 24 2022 (with Joseph Adelman, Professsor of History at Framingham State University)
- Episode 164 June 17 2022 (with Julia Kurnik, Director of Innvoation Startups at the Markets Institute of of the World Wildife Fu
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Episode 151 January 7 2022 (with Dr. Christopher Shaw, Center for Study of Responsive Law)
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Episode 152 January 21 (with Fran Kritz, veteran health care and health poilicy reporter)
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Episode 153 February 4 2022 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore)
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Episode 154 February 11 2022 (with Ethan Van Ness, Senior Policy Advisor on the House Committee on Oversight
and Reform)
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Episode 155 february 25 2022 (with NAPS President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 156 March 11 2022 (with NAPS Excecutive Vice President Chuck Mulidore)
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Episode 157 March 18 2022 (with Annika Christensen, Professional Staff Member of the Senate Homeland Security
and Governmental A
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Episode 158 April 1 2022 (with NAPS Area Vice President Kelly McCartney)
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Episode 159 April 8 2022 (with Daniel Piazza, Curator at the National Postal Museum)
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Episode 160 April 15 2022 (with NAPS President Ivan Butts, Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore and
Secretary Treasurer Jimmy
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Episode 161 April 29 2022 (with NAPS Director of Legislative & Political Affairs Bob Levi)
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Episode 162 May 13 2022 (iwth Katie Maddocks, Legislative & Political Director of the National Postal Mail
Handlers Union)
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Episode 163 June 10 2022 (with Kim Weaver, Federal Retirement Thrift Savings Investment Board)
- Episode 178 December 23 2022 (with Karen Young, publisher of the Postal Supervisor Magazine)
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Episode 149 December 10 2021 (with USPS Police Captain Butch Maynard, President of NAPS Branch 51)
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Episode 148 December 2 2021 (with Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent for Linn's Stamp News)
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Episode 147 November 19 2021 (with NAPS Secretary/Treasurer James Warden)
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Episode 146 November 5 2021 (with Jay Fritz, OPM Manager for Outreach & Program Services)
- Episode 145 October 29 2021 (with PRC Vice Chairwoman Ashley Poling)
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Episode 144 October 15 2021 (with Rep. Bill Pacrell of New Jersey)
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Episode 143 October 8 2021 (with Bob Levi, NAPS Director of Legislative and Poltiical Affairs)
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Episode 142 October 1 2021 (with fomer NAPS President Louis Atkins)
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Episode 141 September 17 2021 (with Jeffrey Post, Senior Staff Member of the Senate Homeland Security and
Homeland Security Comm
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Episode 140 September 10 2021 (with Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore)
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Episode 139 August 27 2021 (with NAPS President Brian Wagner)
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Episode 138 August 20 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 137 August 6 2021 (with Art Sackler, Executive Director of the Coalition for a 21st Century Postal
Service)
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Episode 136 July 30 2021 (with Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts)
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Episode 135 July 23 2021 (with NAPS Director of Legislative & Politcal Affairs Bob Levi)
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Episode 134 July 16 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 133 July 2 2021 (with Josh Shapiro, Attorney General for the State of Pennsylvania)
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Episode 132 June 25 2021 (with Marilyn Walton, NAPS Western Area Vice President )
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Episode 131 June 18 2021 (with Ann Strickland, NAPS Legislative Chair for Florida)
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Episode 130 June 11 2021 (with Bob Levi, NAPS Director of Legislative & Political Affairs)
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Episode 129 June 4 2021 (with Bob Levi, NAPS Director of Legislative & Political Affairs)
- Episode 128 May 28 2021 (with Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas)
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Episode 127 May 21 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 126 May 14 2021 (with Steve Hutkins, Administrator of SavethePost Office.com)
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Episode 125 May 7 2021 (with NAPS President Brian Wagner)
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Episode 124 April 30 2021 (with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois)
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Episode 123 April 23 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 122 April 9 2021 (iwth NAPS members Angie Hicks, Carl Walton, Jimmy Salmon,Steve Shawn.
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Episode 121 April 2 2021 (with AEI Resident Scholar Kevin Kosar)
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Episode 120 March 26 2021 (with NAPS Secretary Treasurer Chuck Mulidore)
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Episode 119 March 19 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 118 March 12 2021 (with Jay Hibbard, Vice President of Government Relations for the Distilled Spirits
Council of the U.S
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Episode 117 March 5 2021 (with Art Sackler, Executive Drirector of the Coalition for a 21st Century Postal
Service)
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Episode 116 February 26 2021 (with NAPS President Brian Wagner)
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Episode 115 February 19 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 114 February 12 2021 (with Rep. Mondaire Jones of New York))
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Episode 113 February 5 2020 (with Rafe Morrissey, Vice President for Public Affairs of the Greeting Card
Association)
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Episode 112 January 29 2021 (with Biden Presidential Transition Team Member Jim Sauber)
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Episode 111 January 21 2021 (with Rep. Andy Levin of Michigan)
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Episode 110 January 15 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 109 January 8 2021 (with Congressman Jason Crow)
- Episode 150 December 17 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore)
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Episode 108 December 24 2020 (with Mark Fallon, President & CEO of the Berkshire Company)
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Episode 107 December 18 2020 (with Benjamin Franklin, first PMG of the United States)
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Episode 106 December 11 2020 (with NAPS Secretary Treasurer Chuck Mulidore)
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Episode 105 December 4 2020 (with Jay Fritz of the Office of Personel Management)
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Episode 104 November 26 2020 (with Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney)
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Episode 103 November 103 (with Rep. Sam Graves of Missouri)
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Episode 102 November 13 2020 (with NAPS President Brian Wagner)
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Episode 101 November 6 2020 (with Ivan Butts, NAPS Executive Vice President)
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Episode 100 October 30 2020 (with Dan Blair, former Postal Regualory Commission Chair)
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Episode 99 October 23 2020 (with Tom Davis, former chairman of the Hosue Committee on Government Reform)
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Episode 98 October 16 2020 (Guest; NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 97 October 9 2020 (Guest: Nationally-recognized Political Consultant Mark Mellman)
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Episode 96 October 2 2020 (With NAPS Director of Legislative & Political Affairs Bob Levi)
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Episode 95 September 25 2020 (Guest: Kevin Fogarty, Chief of Staff to Rep. Peter King of NY)
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Episode 94 September 18 2020 (Guest: Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Florida)
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Episode 93 September 11 2020 (Guest: NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 92 September 4 2020 (Guest: Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois)
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Episode 91 August 28 2020 (Guest: Rep. Brenda Lawrence of Michigan))
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Episode 90 August 21 2020 (Guest:: Chris Shaw, Postal Author, Historian and Policy Analyst)
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Episode 89 August 14 2020 (Guest: NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 88 August 7 2020 (Guest: Mark Stephenson, Legislative Director of the House Committee on Oversight &
Reform)
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Episode 87 July 31 2020 (Guest: Tevi Troy, Presidential Scholar & Former White House Senior Staff Member)
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Episode 86 July 24 2020 (Guest: Sen. Susan Collins)
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Episode 85 July 17 2020 (Guest:: Ivan Butts, NAPS Executive Vice President)
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Episode 84 July 10 2020 (Guest: Mark Micali, Vice President of Government Affairs, the Nonprofit Alliance)
- Episode 83 July 3 2020 (Guest: Postal Historian Steve Kochersperger)
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Episode 82 June 26 2020 (Guest: Chuck Mulidore, NAPS SecretaryTreasurer)
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Episode 81 June 19 2020 (Guest: Rep. Jamie Raskin, Vice Chair of the Committee on House Administration)
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Episode 80 June 12, 2020 (Guest: Ivan Butts, NAPS Executive Vice President)
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Episode 79 June 5 2020 (Guest: Mark Acton of the Postal Regulatory Commisson)
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Episode 78 May 29 2020 (Guest: NAPS President Brian Wagner)
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Episode 77 May 22 2020 (With Bill McAllister, Washington correspondent for Linn's Stamp News)
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Episode 76 May 14 2020 (With Rep. Peter King, co-chair of Congressional Postal Preservation Caucus)
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Episode 75 May 8 2020 (With NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 74 May 1 2020 (Congressional Preservation Caucus)
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Episode 73 April 24 2020 (With Charlie Moskowitz, Executive Vice President of the Signal Group)
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Episode 72 April 17 2020 (With NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 71 April 8 2020 (With House Government Operation Subcommittee Chairman Gerry Connolly)
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Episode 70 April 3, 2020 (With NAPS Resident Officers
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Episode 69 March 27 2020 (With NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 68 March 20 2020 (With NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 67 March 13 2020 (With NAPS Legislative Training Seminar Participants)
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Episode 66 March 6 2020 (With NAPS Secretary Treasurer Chuck Mulidore and NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan
Butts)
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Episode 65 February 28 2020 (With NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 64 February 14 2020 (With John Hatton, NARFE Director of Legislative and Political Affairs)
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Episode 63 February 7 2020 (With NAPS Legislative & Political Director Bob Levi)
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Episode 62 January 31 2020 (With Postal Supervisor Editor Karen Young and NAPS Coordinator of Social &
Digital Media Corina Mays
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Episode 61 January 24 2020 (With the Resident Officers of NAPS)
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Episode 60 January 17 2020 (With Kevin Kosar, Vice President of the R Street Institute)
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Episode 59 January 10 2020 (With NAPS Legislative & Poltical Director Bob Levi)
- Episode 58 January 3 2020 (With NAPS Executive VP Ivan Butts)
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Episode 57 December 20 2019 (with NAPS Resident Officers)
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Epiosde 56 December 13 2019 (With National Postal Museum Director Elliot Gruber)
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Episode 55 December 6 2019 (with Postal Regulatory Commission Vice Chair Michael Kubayanda)
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Episode 54 November 22 2019 (with NAPS Legal Counsel Bruce Moyer)
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Episode 53 November 15 2019 (with NAPS Resident Officers)
- Episode 52 November 8 2019 (with Jay Fritz, Program Manager for Healthcare and Insurance at the Office of Personnel Management)
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Episode 51 November 1 2019 (With Randy Broz, Co-Founder of Angerholzer Broz Consulting)
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Episode 50 October 24 2019 (With NAPS Executive Board Legislative Committee)
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Episode 49 October 17 2019 (Tribute to Rep. Elijah Cummings with Executive VP Ivan Butts)
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Episode 48 October 11 2019 (With NAPS Secretary-Treasurer Chuck Mulidore and Executive Officer
Manager/Membership Director Jovan
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Episode 47 October 4 2019 (With NAPS Legal Counsel Bruce Moyer)
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Episode 46 September 26 2019 (With Rep. Michael Bost of Illinois)
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Episode 45 September 20 2019 (With NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 44 September 13 2019 (With New PRC Commissioners Ann Fisher & Ashley Poling)
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Episode 43 September 6 2019 (With NAPS Secretary Treasurer Chuck Mulidore
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Episode 42 August 15 2019 (With NAPS President Brian Wagner, Executive VP Ivan Butts and Secretary-Treasurer
Chuck Mulidore
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Episode 41 August 8 2019 (With NAPS President Brian Wagner)
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Episode 40 August 1 2019 (With USPS Inspector General Tammy Whitcomb)
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Episode 39 July 26 2019 (With NAPS Executive VP Ivan Butts)
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Episode 38 July 19 2019 (With NAPS Legal Counsel Bruce Moyer)
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Episode 37 July 11 2019 (Executive VP Ivan Butts with Rep. Gerry Connolly of VA)
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Episode 36 July 4 2019 (On the National Mall with Postal Patriots)
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Episode 35 June 27 2019 (with USPS Board of Governors Vice Chair David Williams)
- Episode 34 June 21 2019
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Episode 18 March 1 2019 (NAPS Maryland Legislative Representative Tony Jones)Episode 19 March 8 2019 (Thrift Board Director of External Affairs Kim Weaver)Episode 20 March 15
2019 (NAPS LTS Participants)Episode 23 April 5 2019 (NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)Episode 23 April 5 2019 (NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)Episode 29 May 17 2019 (National Postal Mail Handlers Legislative & Political Director Bob Losi)Episode 33 June 13 2019 (With NAPS Executive VP Ivan Butts)
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Episode 32 June 6 2019 (with Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina)
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Episode 31 May 31 2019 (With NAPS President Brian Wagner)
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Episode 30 May 24 2019 (Julie Tagen, Chief of Staff of Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland)
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Episode 29 May 17 2019 (National Postal Mail Handlers Legislative & Political Director Bob Losi)
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Episode 28 May 10 2019 (with NAPS Executive VP Ivan Butts)
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Episode 27 May 3 2019 (NAPS Legal Counsel Bruce Moyer)
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Episode 26 April 25 2019 (Former Rep. John McHugh, currently chairman of the "Package Coalition")
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Episode 25 April 19 2019 (NALC Chief of Staff Jim Sauber)
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Episode 24 April 12 2019 (NARFE Vice President for Advocacy Jessica Klement)
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Episode 23 April 5 2019 (NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 22 March 29 2019 (R Street Institute Vice President for Policy Kevin Kosar)
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Episode 21 March 22 2019
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Episode 20 March 15 2019 (NAPS LTS Participants)
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Episode 19 March 8 2019 (Thrift Board Director of External Affairs Kim Weaver)
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Episode 18 March 1 2019 (NAPS Maryland Legislative Representative Tony Jones)
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Episode 17 February 22 2019 (NAPS President Brian Wagner)
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Episode 16 February 14 2019 (NAPS California Postal Coaltion Participants)
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Episode 15 February 7 2019 (Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence)
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Episode 14 Feb 1 2019 (NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
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Episode 13, Jan 25, 2019 (Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Robert Taub)
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Episode 12, Jan 18, 2019 (NAPS Legal & Legislative Counsel Bruce Moyer)
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Episode 11 Jan 10 2019 (Members of Congress Jamie Raskin & Anne Kirkpatrick)
- Episode 10 Jan 4 2019 (NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts and Members of Congress)