(October 12, 2014) Guest Post by Steve Hutkins a literature professor who teaches āplace studiesā at the Gallatin School of New York University. This is Part 1 in a series of 3 articles as written by Steve Hutkins in 2012. These articles originally appeared on the āSave The Post Office Blogā. Steve lives in a…
(September 27, 2014) The U.S. Postal Service is besieged by financial losses, and the cavalry doesnāt appear to be coming. After years of debate, Congress remains stalled on legislation to prop up an agency weighed down by heavy employee costs and still struggling to remake itself in the Internet era. Two years ago, lawmakers worked…
(KUTV) Post Master General Patrick R. Donahoe stopped by the studio to talk about the future of mail and how Utah will play its part. The future of the Postal Service, including innovations like 7-day package delivery, and Legislative Reform that is necessary to fully meet Utahns, and All Americans, evolving mailing and shipping needs….
After years of massive downsizing, the U.S. Postal Serviceās workforce has stopped shrinking, at least temporarily. USPS recently reported having 616,025 active employees, just 362 fewer than a year ago. The number of full-timers actually inched up by 1,464, to 467,844. Thatās a far cry from the previous six years, when the annual workforce reductions…
Benjamin Franklin must have been the coolest guy in the world to hang out with at a coffee shop. He had the brilliance to look at the small stuff (and had to invent bifocals to do it) while seeing the big picture: America can be the strongest and most democratic country in the world, he…
August 13, 2014 ā For Immediate Release “IĀ suspect the authorities dropped the charges because their persecution just emboldened us to further spotlight waste, fraud, and abuse at the peopleās postal service,ā said Rev. John Schwiebert. Schwiebert was one of the āpostal protectorā arrestees who were charged with āimpeding a mail delivery vehicleā and āblocking a…
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., will be in town today to meet with First Selectman Michael Tetreau and the public on concerns that the Southport Post Office may be closed. The meeting will take place at 3 p.m. in Sullivan-Independence Hall. The meeting was planned in response to growing concerns in the Southport section of…
The U.S. Postal Serviceās workforce demographics add an extra layer of challenges to an organization that already has plenty. We recently blogged about the Postal Serviceās brain drain ā the loss of institutional knowledge due to a large number of workers retiring. This week we look at the additional challenge of creating a robust corporate…
