Outstate MN cities fight postal service closings

50 U.S. senators have joined Minnesota mayors in the fight to save four processing centers. National lawmakers have joined Minnesota mayors in the fight to keep mail processing centers in four outstate cities from closing. Earlier this summer, the U.S. Postal Service announced a plan to shutter dozens of mail processing centers across the county…

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How Fred Rolando sold CCAs down the river (via “Vote Clean Sweep”)

August 25, 2014 Fred Rolando and City Carrier Assistants Everyone knows that the City Carrier Assistants (CCAs) have become the untouchables of the Postal Service. Upon their daily arrival they are confronted by bad-tempered supervisors, pacing up and down behind them like prison guards. They are micromanaged and berated, constantly under threat of discharge if…

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