Interest Arbitrator Selected and Hearings Scheduled to Begin October 29
Labor Arbitrator Herbert Fishgold of Washington, DC has been selected by the
NRLCA and USPS to serve as interest arbitrator in hearings to begin on
October 29, 2007.

Highly respected in his field, Arbitrator Fishgold has a long and
distinguished career as a labor arbitrator. In 1983, Arbitrator Fishgold was
inducted into the prestigious National Academy of Arbitrators, and since
then has resolved over 1500 labor disputes in the public and private
sectors. Early in his career, he served as an attorney in the Appellate
Court Branch of the National Labor Relations Board, as General Counsel for
the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and as a consultant and
hearing officer for the Department of Labor.

Pursuant to statute, Arbitrator Fishgold will serve as neutral arbitrator
together with an arbitrator selected by the NRLCA and an arbitrator selected
by the USPS. Dennis Clark, of Peer & Gan will serve on behalf of the NRLCA.
For more than a decade, Mr. Clark has represented rural letter carrier
interests in area and national arbitration and in Federal Court. He was
co-counsel in the 2002 National Mail Count Arbitration. Mr. Clark has also
served as Deputy Associate Solicitor of Labor for the Department of Labor,
Counsel for Appellate Litigation at the Department's Mine Safety and Health
division, and General Counsel of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review
Commission. Robert Dufek, a Washington, DC management labor lawyer at Morgan
Lewis will serve on behalf of the USPS.

Interest arbitration hearings are scheduled to begin on October 29. The
parties expect to conclude their presentations in December and anticipate
that an award will issue before Christmas.

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