Farewell Address offers perspective and advice for postal stakeholders/Congress WASHINGTON — Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe was the featured speaker at the January 6, 2015 National Press Club Newsmakers news conference in Washington, DC. Speaking to reporters collectively for the last time prior to his retirement, Donahoe praised postal employees for their hard-work and accomplishments…
Where is it? Why hasn’t it arrived? For Immediate Release 01/05/2015 – Where is it? Why hasn’t it arrived? Beginning this week, these questions will be asked by millions of Americans who will wonder why their prescription drugs, their church bulletin, their paycheck, and other important correspondence haven’t been delivered. The lowering of service standards…
By Jennifer Harper – Monday, January 5, 2015 Now that the holiday rush is over, change is afoot in the nation’s mail. On Tuesday, outgoing Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, who has led the oft-challenged U.S. Postal Service for four years, heads to the National Press Club for some candid talk about the future of an…
(January 4, 2015) The U.S. Postal Service next week plans to begin a new round of plant closings and consolidations that will affect dozens of mail-processing centers, including three in Mississippi, despite calls from more than half the members of the outgoing Senate to postpone the changes. Earlier this month, 30 senators, all but one…
(January 1, 2015) WASHINGTON — The Postal Service plans to begin a new round of plant closings and consolidations next week that will affect dozens of mail-processing centers, despite calls from the Senate to postpone the changes. Last month, 30 senators, all but one of them Democrats, issued a letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe…
As Retirement Approaches, Patrick Donahoe Reflects on Career and Current Postal Issues WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — What: The National Press Club Newsmakers Speech Who: Postmaster General & CEO Patrick R. Donahoe When: Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2015 / 10 a.m. ET Where: The National Press Club Murrow Room 529 14th St. NW, 13th…
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…
It’s a story the U.S. Postal Service did not want us to tell you: Sexual assaults committed not just by customers and strangers, but by postal employees against other postal employees. A thick layer of snow had just dropped onto the road as we climbed a mountain near Albany, New York, to meet Diane Caruso-Ruston….
