February 17, 2026 APWU President Jonathan Smith Sits down with Federal News Network reporter Jory Heckman to talk about his vision for the future of the Postal Service, and why it is important to fight off privatizers. Click here to read the interview. Source: APWU
“The Wells Fargo memo spells out what is being whispered in Washington,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein.
Today, the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association celebrates a critical milestone in our campaign to protect the United States Postal Service: a bipartisan majority of members in the U.S. House of Representatives have now signed on to House Resolution 70, which affirms the Postal Service must remain an independent, public institution—not subject to privatization.
New polling shows that postal customers strongly believe that proposals to privatize the United States Postal Service should be marked “Return to Sender.” In a national survey of 1,402 registered voters, those surveyed oppose postal service privatization by an overwhelming 34 points.
This is a threat unlike anything we’ve seen before, and it’s more important than ever that we fight back.
The postmaster general serves at the pleasure of the Postal Service’s independent governing board
June 14, 2024 The presort discount system, created decades ago, turned over large sections of postal operations to private companies, for private profit. The Postal Service gives companies like Pitney Bowes and other large mailers huge postage discounts, or “corporate welfare,” to presort letters and packages before entering them “downstream” in the postal network. These … Read more
From: Lamont Brooks <lbrooks@apwu.org> Sent: Saturday, May 8, 2021 Subject: Notification No. GCCC20210149 USPS Will Discontinue and Dismantle FSS Machines In Several Facilities Across the Country We have requested several meeting on the Postal Service shift from letter/flat automation equipment to package sorting equipment under the ten-year plan. The problem has been we have been … Read more
