By Editorial Board –Â January 26, 2016 THE SENATE could not have chosen a more appropriate title for last weekâs committee hearing on the nationâs troubled postal system: âLaying Out the Reality of the United States Postal Service.â Witness after expert witness explained just how desperate that reality is. In the age of email and text…
By Daniel Chaitin – October 10, 2015 Less than a year after a hack affected nearly 1 million U.S. Postal Service employees, a watchdog report finds that a quarter of USPS employees are still duped into clicking scam email links. Additionally, 93 percent of the employees that clicked the phishing links did not report it…
The U.S. Postal Service has become an extension of Amazon and is courting other e-commerce giants By Devin Leonard – July 30, 2015 In cities such as San Francisco and New York, letter carriers have been showing up on peopleâs doorsteps as early as 3 a.m. bearing unusual cargo: milk, eggs, and other perishable items….
By Mel Carriere – July 16, 2015 Do any of you out there getting kind of long in the tooth, like me, remember that 70s game show called To Tell the Truth? I used to watch that show every afternoon. For you youngsters in attendance, the program consisted of three contestants pretending to be the…
By Bernie Becker – July 9, 2015 A group of Senate Democrats is pushing new legislation to improve mail service for their rural residents they say have gotten the worst of cuts from the U.S. Postal Service. The bill from Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Jon Tester (Mont.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.) and Gary Peters (Mich.) would…
By Lisa Rein – April 27, 2015 The U.S. mail is slowing down. In January, the Postal Service eliminated overnight delivery for local first-class letters that used to arrive the next day. Anywhere from 20 percent to half of the rest of the first-class mail sent every day now takes an extra day of delivery…
ALEXANDRIA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a Complaint against the Postal Service alleging that it violated federal labor law by failing to bargain with the National Rural Letter Carriersâ Association (NRLCA) and provide information to the NRLCA concerning last yearâs massive Postal Service data breach. The Complaint, issued on March 31,…
[maxgallery id=”35076″]Shirley Dunaway, postal activist, and John Dennie, a long-time postal activist and organizer, speak out against the deal cut by former Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe with Staples to allow all 1500 Staples stores to set up mini-stations not staffed by trained postal employees. This is a highly risky proposition, not only deliberately undermining the…
