Cape Coral businesses vs post office: End late deliveries! (video)

April 28, 2016 CAPE CORAL, Fla. – Business owners are complaining about the late delivery of mail and are demanding the local post offices fix what they see as a preventable postal problem. Nearly 200 businesses in the North Cape Coral Industrial Park have rallied against the post office for dropping of packages after business…

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APWU: 84% Give Postal Service a Thumbs Up

Web News Article #: 224-2015 12/03/2015 – According to a recent poll by the Pew Research Center, while only 19 percent of Americans trust the federal government, an overwhelming 84 percent view the Postal Service favorably – making it the most well-liked federal agency. The USPS outranks even the National Parks Service and NASA. And…

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Officials Tour Flandro Drive USPS Processing Center in Pocatello, ID

October 20, 2015 On Tuesday, local government officials took a tour of the United States Post Office processing center that closed down in April. The mayors of Pocatello and Chubbuck along with representatives from Senator Crapo’s office, postal officials from Pocatello and Salt Lake City and the executive director of Old Town Pocatello toured the…

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Bernie Sanders Addresses APWU Conference – ‘It Was Electric’

Web News Article #: 195-2015 10/14/2015 – Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders thrilled APWU members attending the union’s All-Craft Conference in Las Vegas on Oct. 14. “It was electric,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein of the response to Sanders’ speech. Sanders told the audience of approximately 2,000 APWU members, “The beauty of the Postal Service is…

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Confusion over plan for Petaluma mail facility

By E.A. Barrera – April 13, 2015 A controversial plan to shutter the U.S. Postal Service’s North Bay mail processing facility in Petaluma is on hold, but local postal workers and the area’s congressional representative continue to express strong opposition to the plan. Petaluma’s North Bay Processing and Distribution Center at 1150 North Mcdowell Blvd….

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Video: APWU WR Coordinator Gonzalez addresses crowd at Debs Park event

Western Region Coordinator Omar Gonzalez addressing the crowd at Debs Regional Park during CAL’s CAT event at the Atzlan Athletics 4 mile run/walk! via Facebook posting by APWU California Area Local #4635 on Saturday, April 4, 2015

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