NAPS Chat

Episode 245 June 29 2026 -- "1776: An American Postal System Delivering Independence" with USPS Historians Steve Kochersperger and Junemarie Brandt

Episode 246 July 16 2026 -- "Preparing for the 2026 NAPS National Convention" with Sheri Davies of ConferenceDirect 

Episode 247 August 4 2026 -- "Options to Address the Postal Service's Financial Woes" with David Garcia of the Postal Service Office of Inspector General

Episode 248 September 2 2026 -- "Newly NAPS Elected Executive Vice President Jimmy Warden Discusses Crucial Postal Issues"

Episode 249 September 17, 2026 -- "Is History Prologue? Revisiting th 2003 President's Commission on the US Postal Service" with former Executive Director Dennis Shea

Episode 250 October 15, 2026 -- "Election 2026 Countdown: Who Will Control Congress?" with Editor of the Cook Political Report Erin Covey

• Episode 224 May 9 2025 - "Fighting Postal and Federal Employee Benefit Cuts" with NARFE Vice President John Hatton
  

• Episode 225 May 30 2025 -- "Remembering Rep. Gerry Connolly and Possible Benefit Cuts on the Horizon"
  

• Episode 226 June 27 2025 -- "Six Months In With Rep. Suhas Subramanyan"
  

• Episode 227 July 17 2025 -- "Hot Town, Summer In the City" with NAPS Executive Chuck Mulidore

• 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"

• Episode 211 July 26 2024 - "Legislative Postal Snowball in the Summer" wiith Bob Levi
  
  
• Episode 212 August 19 2024 with Ashley Poling
  
  
• Episode 213 September 6 2024 -- "Repealing GPO -WEP: Ending Pension Discrimination" with Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA)
  
  
• Episode 214 September 27 2024 -- "Voting by Mail, An American Tradition" with Carrie Villar of the National Postal Museum
  
  
• Episode 215 October 16 2024 - "Welcoming the Postal Service's New Health Program" with Karla Kirby, Executive Manager of Postal Service Health Benefits
  
  
• Episode 216 October 30 2024 -- "The 2024 Election" with NAPS Executive VP Chuck Mulidore
  
  
• Episode 217 November 11 2024 - "Inaugural PSHBP Open Season" with Jay Fritz of the Office of Personel Managment
  
  
• 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

• Episode 189 May 25 2023 (with Joy Sanzone of USPS Office of Inspector General)
  
  
• Episode 190 June 16 2023 (with PRC Commissioner Ann Fisher)
  
  
• Episode 191 July 14 2023 (with Rep. Pete Sessions)
  
  
• Episode 192 July 28 2023 (with NAPS Excutive VP Chuck Mulidore)
  
  
• Episode 193 August 11 2023 (with Michael Plunkett, President and CEO of the Association for Postal Commerce
  
  
• Episode 194 September 8 2023 (with Tammy Flanagan, Founder of Retire Federal)
  
  
• Episode 195 September 22 2023 (with National Postal Museum Curator Lynn Heidelbaugh)
  
  
• Episode 196 October 6, 2023 (with Bob Levi, Director of Legislative & Political Affairs)
  
  
• Episode 197 October 27 2023 (with Former PRC Member Mark Acton)
  
  
• Episode 198 November 10 2023 (With Jay Fritz)
  
  
• Episode 199 December 8 2023 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore)
  
  
• Episode 200 December 22 2023 (with NARFE VP John Hatton)

• Episode 151 January 7 2022 (with Dr. Christopher Shaw, Center for Study of Responsive Law)
  
  
• Episode 152 January 21 (with Fran Kritz, veteran health care and health poilicy reporter)
  
  
• Episode 153 February 4 2022 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore)
  
  
• Episode 154 February 11 2022 (with Ethan Van Ness, Senior Policy Advisor on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform)
  
  
• Episode 155 february 25 2022 (with NAPS President Ivan Butts)
  
  
• Episode 156 March 11 2022 (with NAPS Excecutive Vice President Chuck Mulidore)
  
  
• Episode 157 March 18 2022 (with Annika Christensen, Professional Staff Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental A
  
  
• Episode 158 April 1 2022 (with NAPS Area Vice President Kelly McCartney)
  
  
• Episode 159 April 8 2022 (with Daniel Piazza, Curator at the National Postal Museum)
  
  
• Episode 160 April 15 2022 (with NAPS President Ivan Butts, Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore and Secretary Treasurer Jimmy
  
  
• Episode 161 April 29 2022 (with NAPS Director of Legislative & Political Affairs Bob Levi)
  
  
• Episode 162 May 13 2022 (iwth Katie Maddocks, Legislative & Political Director of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union)
  
  
• 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)

• Episode 127 May 21 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
  
  
• Episode 126 May 14 2021 (with Steve Hutkins, Administrator of SavethePost Office.com)
  
  
• Episode 125 May 7 2021 (with NAPS President Brian Wagner)
  
  
• Episode 124 April 30 2021 (with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois)
  
  
• Episode 123 April 23 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
  
  
• Episode 122 April 9 2021 (iwth NAPS members Angie Hicks, Carl Walton, Jimmy Salmon,Steve Shawn.
  
  
• Episode 121 April 2 2021 (with AEI Resident Scholar Kevin Kosar)
  
  
• Episode 120 March 26 2021 (with NAPS Secretary Treasurer Chuck Mulidore)
  
  
• Episode 119 March 19 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
  
  
• Episode 118 March 12 2021 (with Jay Hibbard, Vice President of Government Relations for the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S
  
  
• Episode 117 March 5 2021 (with Art Sackler, Executive Drirector of the Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service)
  
  
• Episode 116 February 26 2021 (with NAPS President Brian Wagner)
  
  
• Episode 115 February 19 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
  
  
• Episode 114 February 12 2021 (with Rep. Mondaire Jones of New York))
  
  
• Episode 113 February 5 2020 (with Rafe Morrissey, Vice President for Public Affairs of the Greeting Card Association)
  
  
• Episode 112 January 29 2021 (with Biden Presidential Transition Team Member Jim Sauber)
  
  
• Episode 111 January 21 2021 (with Rep. Andy Levin of Michigan)
  
  
• Episode 110 January 15 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
  
  
• Episode 109 January 8 2021 (with Congressman Jason Crow)
  
  
• Episode 150 December 17 2021 (with NAPS Executive Vice President Chuck Mulidore)

• Episode 82 June 26 2020 (Guest: Chuck Mulidore, NAPS SecretaryTreasurer)
  
  
• Episode 81 June 19 2020 (Guest: Rep. Jamie Raskin, Vice Chair of the Committee on House Administration)
  
  
• Episode 80 June 12, 2020 (Guest: Ivan Butts, NAPS Executive Vice President)
  
  
• Episode 79 June 5 2020 (Guest: Mark Acton of the Postal Regulatory Commisson)
  
  
• Episode 78 May 29 2020 (Guest: NAPS President Brian Wagner)
  
  
• Episode 77 May 22 2020 (With Bill McAllister, Washington correspondent for Linn's Stamp News)
  
  
• Episode 76 May 14 2020 (With Rep. Peter King, co-chair of Congressional Postal Preservation Caucus)
  
  
• Episode 75 May 8 2020 (With NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
  
  
• Episode 74 May 1 2020 (Congressional Preservation Caucus)
  
  
• Episode 73 April 24 2020 (With Charlie Moskowitz, Executive Vice President of the Signal Group)
  
  
• Episode 72 April 17 2020 (With NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
  
  
• Episode 71 April 8 2020 (With House Government Operation Subcommittee Chairman Gerry Connolly)
  
  
• Episode 70 April 3, 2020 (With NAPS Resident Officers
  
  
• Episode 69 March 27 2020 (With NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
  
  
• Episode 68 March 20 2020 (With NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
  
  
• Episode 67 March 13 2020 (With NAPS Legislative Training Seminar Participants)
  
  
• Episode 66 March 6 2020 (With NAPS Secretary Treasurer Chuck Mulidore and NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
  
  
• Episode 65 February 28 2020 (With NAPS Executive Vice President Ivan Butts)
  
  
• Episode 64 February 14 2020 (With John Hatton, NARFE Director of Legislative and Political Affairs)
  
  
• Episode 63 February 7 2020 (With NAPS Legislative & Political Director Bob Levi)
  
  
• Episode 62 January 31 2020 (With Postal Supervisor Editor Karen Young and NAPS Coordinator of Social & Digital Media Corina Mays
  
  
• Episode 61 January 24 2020 (With the Resident Officers of NAPS)
  
  
• Episode 60 January 17 2020 (With Kevin Kosar, Vice President of the R Street Institute)
  
  
• Episode 59 January 10 2020 (With NAPS Legislative & Poltical Director Bob Levi)
  
  
• Episode 58 January 3 2020 (With NAPS Executive VP Ivan Butts)