(KGO) – United States postal workers took to the streets of Palo Alto with a message for Staples executives meeting inside a downtown hotel. As KGOâs Jeannie Lynch reports, the protest was over the postal serviceâs new partnership with the office supply company. Caroline Frederico with the US Postal Service claims the partnership takes away…
Web News Article #: 109-14 June 2, 2014 – Staplesâ board of directors got an earful on June 2, when they attended the companyâs annual shareholdersâ meeting in upscale Palo Alto, CA. Fifty APWU members and supporters â including students from nearby Stanford University â chanted loud enough to be heard throughout the executivesâ brief…
The latest postal absurdity on Capitol Hill is being perpetuated by high-ranking members of the House Republican Leadership. Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) propose to bail-out the Highway Trust Fund with an almost $11 billion raid on the U.S. Postal Service. There is currently a…
The Postal Service wants more people to complete its consumer surveys, so the organization is asking fewer questions and allowing participants to answer them online, Consumer and Industry Affairs VP Jim Nemec says. âWe do surveys to understand what we are doing well and what we need to improve when it comes to creating a…
Washington D.C. – Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below in response to a memo sent by House Republican leadership to House Republican caucus members late Friday outlining a plan to use revenue from eliminating Saturday mail service as the primary method of funding the Highway…
Web News Article #: 108-14 June 2, 2014 – APWU President Mark Dimondstein issued a statement June 2 condemning a proposal by House Republican leaders to raid the Postal Service treasury to shore up the Highway Trust Fund. The statement appears below: âThe proposal by House Republican leaders to use Postal Service funds to help…
The Postal Service is being forced to reduce the value of its prime asset, âlast mileâ delivery. Management has proposed to eliminate Saturday delivery and require businesses and households to accept delivery at curb or cluster boxes instead of at the door. At the same time, mailers are being charged more to cover the costs…
As if the US Congress hasnât squeezed enough money out of the ailing US Postal Service in the last decade, lawmakers in Washington have now come up with a genius plan to cut mail delivery to five-days-a-week and use the savings on an insolvent federal road-building initiative. The US Postal Service has lost more than…
