Video: Philadelphia Stop Staples Committee meets victim of Royal Mail privatization

The APWU Philadelphia Stop Staples Committee were leafleting the 1500 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Staples today. They met Jane Caplan, from Oxford, England.  Jane is in town visiting friends and was going to enter the Staples store to make a purchase.  After reading our flyer and talking further with us, Jane said she would absolutely honor our boycott and…

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This Is What Real Postal Privatization Looks Like

American postal workers and their allies complain that U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe is trying to privatize his agency, and Donahoe says this is preposterous. Who’s right? It might be useful to consider what’s going on in Britain, where the Conservative-run government of Prime Minister David Cameron really did take the Royal Mail private last…

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