The National Association of Postal Supervisors (NAPS) is a staff association representing people in managerial roles in the United States Postal Service.
History 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.
In January 1946, the association was chartered by the American Federation of Labor (AFL), and by 1953, its membership had grown to 16,500. However, it resigned from the AFL in 1955, prior to that federation's merger into the AFL-CIO.
As of 2022, the association is based in Alexandria, Virginia, and claims 27,000 members.
Presidents 1908: L. E. Palmer 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
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