Reps. Michaud and Pingree Call on Speaker Boehner to Preserve Saturday Mail Delivery

Speaker’s proposal to end Saturday mail as a means of paying for Highway Trust Fund puts jobs at risk WASHINGTON, D.C.  – U.S. Representatives Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree are calling on Speaker John Boehner to abandon a proposal to temporarily address the impending shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund by eliminating Saturday mail delivery. In a letter…

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The United States Postal Service: An Assault on the American Middle Class

This is a repost of a 2010 article from BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE (As relevant today as it was back then) The federal law is clear. 18 U.S.C. § 1001 reads as follows: Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch…

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It’s Time for Postal Unions and Mailers To ‘KISS’ on USPS Reform

The editorial below from “an anonymous PostCom board member” appeared in this week’s issue of PostCom Bulletin, the organization’s newsletter. I thought the insights about how to get postal reform moving and about the U.S. Postal Service’s governing body were worth sharing with a wider audience, so I’m republishing it with the permission of PostCom. A…

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Heitkamp Brings Chairman of Senate Committee Overseeing Postal Service to Williston to Hear about Mail Service and Delivery in ND

Senator Shares Themes of North Dakotans’ Stories from Fix My Mail Initiative Press Release – June 7, 2014 WILLISTON, N.D. – U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp today brought U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) to Williston so he could hear firsthand about the challenges that North Dakota faces with mail delivery and service, and about efforts to…

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Social media and Postal Employees

A Ruralinfo.net Editorial Social media and what employees can do and say is kind of a New Frontier. Basically, with the surge of Facebook, Twitter and all of the other social media websites out there, we are more or less, as a work force, stumbling in the dark. So what exactly are the rules concerning…

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