Union Pushes Post Office to Offer Financial Services

By Melanie Trottman – February 20, 2015 The American Postal Workers Union is making a big ask as part of contract talks it kicked off Thursday with the U.S. Postal Service: It wants the post office to expand customer offerings to include financial services. That will be a challenge. The recently departed postmaster general, Patrick…

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APWU: OIG Report – Postal Service, Customers Would Suffer if Mail Processing Were Eliminated

Web News Article #: 002-2015 01/08/2015 – A little-noticed OIG report bolsters the union’s position that mail processing plants are crucial to Postal Service operations and should not be privatized. Many Americans view the Postal Service as having only two components: those who deliver mail and those who assist you at the window, the Dec….

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Golden Hammer Award: Postal Management caught using travel cards for personal food as costs of mailing rise

Postal workers may be famous for delivering that check in the mail. But they apparently are also good at grabbing cash advances off their official credit cards to satisfy their personal hunger. An investigation by the Postal Service’s internal watchdog identified hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable expenses that workers charged to their official…

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