NALC Executive Council endorses Biden-Harris

August 13, 2020 Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), released the following statement regarding the NALC Executive Council’s endorsement of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for president and vice president of the United States: On behalf of nearly 300,000 active and retired letter carriers, we are proud to endorse Vice…

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NALC endorses Hillary Clinton for president

June 09, 2016 Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), released the following statement regarding the NALC Executive Council’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president of the United States: Following a tremendously hard-fought primary process, NALC is proud to endorse former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to serve as the next…

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Why USPS doesn’t celebrate rare net profit; and a big service-cut plan dies

By Joe Davidson – February 14, 2016 After years of singing the blues, postal officials had reason for a praise song. For the first time in almost five years, they reported a U.S. Postal Service quarterly net profit. The $307 million in net income for the first quarter of fiscal year 2016, which ended Dec….

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Letter: U.S. Postal Service thrives in Internet age

August 4, 2015 Re “Reisman: Complaining about Postal Service is futile,” March 16 column: Columnist Phil Reisman repeated misleading “conventional wisdom” about U.S. Postal Service finances in asserting that “email, social media and the Internet in general are the primary cause of the Postal Service’s chronic woes.” Were increased Internet usage indeed causing the red…

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Letter to the editor: USPS’ financial future much brighter than reported

Dear editor: There’s a lot of misleading conventional wisdom about the U.S. Postal Service. Some of it was contained in a recent Federal News Radio report on USPS’ decision to delay plans to close dozens of mail-processingfacilities nationwide. Such action would slow the mail, thus hurting businesses; rural communities; tens of millions of Americans paying…

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