BY MAGGIE TROWE In a national day of action organized by four postal unions Nov. 14, several thousand people demonstrated outside 150 U.S. Postal Service facilities in all 50 states to protest job cuts, outsourcing and other union-busting measures — as well as to defend the basic mail service that working people above all depend…
Cutbacks have been a fact of life for U.S. Postal Service operations across north central Ohio for several years now. Mail-processing operations left Mansfield for Cleveland in 2012. And small, rural post offices in Crawford County villages like Chatfield have seen their office hours drastically cut. Some mail delivery has suffered as a result, but…
I’m as torn as an opened envelope. Sen. Bob Casey’s office sent out a news release Saturday saying he and a bipartisan group of 48 other senators are urging the Senate Appropriations Committee to prevent the U.S. Postal Service from consolidating up to 82 mail-processing facilities nationwide. The move would eliminate up to 15,000 jobs…
(July 7, 2014) Robert M. Williams Jr., president of the National Newspaper Association and publisher of the Blackshear (Ga.) Times issued a statement strongly objecting to forthcoming closures planned by the United States Postal Service. The USPS said it would close or consolidate more than 80 mail-processing facilities after January, and lower service standards for…
CODEN, Ala. (WALA) – Some residents in Coden, Ala. have formed a grassroots effort to help keep their neighboorhood post office open. The United States Postal Service wants to make some changes, and patrons are not happy. Folks living in Coden say they have had a post office in their town for as long as…
