The National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS) is a staff association representing people in managerial roles in the United States Postal Service.
The association was founded on September 8, 1908, at a conference in Louisville, Kentucky, as the National Association of Supervisory Post Office Employees. It became NAPS in the early 1920s, and by 1925, it had 5,500 members.[1] [2]
In January 1946, the association was chartered by the American Federation of Labor (AFL),[3] and by 1953, its membership had grown to 16,500.[4] However, it resigned from the AFL in 1955, prior to that federation's merger into the AFL-CIO.[5]
As of 2022, the association is based in Alexandria, Virginia, and claims 27,000 members.[6]
1908: L. E. Palmer[7]
1910: George A. Gassman
1911: Ernest Green
1916: William Sansom
1917: J. J. Fields
1921: V. C. Burke
1922: H. M. Tittle
1924: Peter Wigge
1925: Harry Folger
1930: W. Bruce Luna
1931: M. F. O'Donnell
1932: Herschel Ressler
1937: M. F. Fitzpatrick
1941: John J. Lane
1946: John McMahon
1950: Michael Nave
1958: Fred J. O'Dwyer
1970: Donald N. Ledbetter
1986: Rubin Handelman
1992: Vincent Palladino
2006: Ted Keating
2010: Louis M. Atkins
2016: Brian J. Wagner
2021: Ivan D. Butts