UPDATED (5/1/15): USPS Network Rationalization Consolidations
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Day: May 1, 2015
House passes budget without federal benefit cuts
By Andy Medici – May 1, 2015 Civilian agencies would see their budgets slashed while the Defense Department would get billions of dollars in additional funding, under a budget proposal passed by the House April 30. The House voted 226 to 197 to pass the budget, with all Democrats and 12 Republicans voting in opposition….
Senate Opposes USPS Service Cuts, APWU Calls Vote ‘Significant Development’
Web News Article #: 090-2015 05/01/2015 – The Senate approved a motion on S. Con. Res. 11 introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that instructs budget conferees to insist on a deficit-neutral fund to halt mail processing center closures, restore overnight mail delivery, and protect rural services. A deficit-neutral amendment may not increase the nation’s…
PRC Chief Tells What Will Keep the Postal Service Going
By Al Urbanski – May 1, 2015 Though he never clerked a Post Office or walked a carrier route, Robert Taub does have serious postal street cred, having helped craft the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act. Periods did not customarily end the sentences of recently retired Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe. Nearly every one of…