USPS: Big test – Customers testing larger mailboxes

The Postal Service has expanded its test of larger mailboxes to rural and suburban communities in California, Colorado and North Dakota. Customers in these areas recently received the test boxes, which are the same height as regular mailboxes but much wider to accommodate around 70 percent of boxes currently sent through the mail. The customers…

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Who owns the Postal Service?

By Mark Jamison – March 18, 2015 Who owns the post office? Who is the post office designed to serve? What is the system’s ultimate function? These questions are fundamental to the future and the fate of the post office, the postal network, and postal services in this country. How we answer them will have…

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APWU: California Retirees Host Tailgate Party

Web News Article #: 053-2015 03/18/2015 – APWU retirees in the Golden State took a bite out of privatization by hosting a Contract Campaign Tailgate Party. Members of the San Fernando Valley Golden Oldies Retirees Chapter, along with local, state and regional APWU officers, hosted a barbecue for more than 180 delegates to meeting of…

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NALC: Strike remembered in oral histories

Letter carriers who were involved in the Great Postal Strike, which began 45 years ago on March 18, 1970, are telling their stories for a new book about the walkout. The book is being written by Philip Rubio, an associate professor of history at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro and author of There’s…

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Soldiers build postal capacity from ground up in Iraq

CAMP TAJI, Iraq (March 16, 2015) — Even in a time of constant digital communication – an age of Twitter, Facebook and FaceTime – there remains something special for deployed Soldiers about a tangible letter or package sent by loved ones halfway around the world. For those Service members deployed with Combined Joint Forces Land…

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USPS: Board of Governors nominations – Obama selects Crawford, Miller for open seats

(March 17, 2015) President Obama has nominated Stephen Crawford and James Miller III to the Postal Service Board of Governors. Crawford is a research professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Miller, a senior advisor at law firm Husch Blackwell, previously served as director of the Office of Management and Budget. Miller served on…

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NPMHU Urges Participation In The Grand Alliance

The NPMHU is pleased to be working with the APWU, NALC, NRLCA, and a number of like-minded organizations to establish “A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service.” This Alliance is a comprehensive coalition of national organizations made up of other labor unions, civil rights groups, religious organizations and progressive policy advocates that all…

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Video: Pocatello, ID Mayor Holds 11th Hour Town Hall to Reverse USPS Plant Closure

(March 17, 2015) The announcement came over three years ago. The United States Post Office made a final decision to close the processing plant in Pocatello. Since then, postal employees and local officials have been appealing to the post office to take the closure off the table. Monday night, one last push was made to…

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