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…
Former Employee Says USPS Becoming Corporate Stooge By Peter Fricke – March 21, 2015 A former postal worker is alleging that preferential treatment of Amazon packages by the United State Postal Service is part of a larger trend toward valuing corporate partners over regular citizens. In an article for AlterNet, Paul Barbot, a career postal…
For Immediate Release 11/13/2014 – Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and the USPS Board of Governors, the board that oversees the U.S. Postal Service, are poised to make devastating cuts in service to the American people – cuts so severe that they would forever damage the U.S. Postal Service. On Jan. 5, the USPS is slated…
The US Postal Service posted another loss of $1.96 billion in the third quarter. CFO Joseph Corbett said the agency needed $10 billion to upgrade infrastructure and replace aging fleet The US Postal Service’s CFO, Joseph Corbett, stated that the agency required an investment of up to $10 billion to continue providing competitive services. The…
STILLWATER, Okla. — One public service that people really like and count on is the post office – which literally delivers for us. Antigovernment ideologues and privatization dogmatists, however, hate the very word “public,” and they’ve long sought to demonize the U.S. Postal Service, undercut its popular support and, finally, dismantle it. Their main line…
A year before the Declaration of Independence was signed; the Continental Congress passed a bill establishing the national post office. Ever since, the post office has played a vital role in facilitating the flow of ideas and goods across our far-flung land. In its quest for ever quicker and more efficient deliveries, the post office…
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday addressed the annual convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers. He drew standing ovations from the big convention crowd in Philadelphia for opposing cuts in services and jobs at the U.S. Postal Service at a time of rising revenue. Sanders is the chief sponsor of legislation to modernize the…
The household budget looks bleak. There’s bills to pay and, based on what you currently bring in, not enough money to cover it all. The automatic response is to look for things to cut, like trips out to eat or that planned trip to a baseball game. But if there was a way to change…
