For Immediate Release 15/1/15 – Contact: (xxxxx name, phone number, email) On January 5, 2015 Overnight Delivery of First Class Mail will end throughout the country: unless there is Congressional action, a ruling by the Postal Board of Governors, or PMG action to postpone the changes. xxxxxxxx Postal Mail Processing Center is slated for closure on…
BY MAGGIE TROWE In a national day of action organized by four postal unions Nov. 14, several thousand people demonstrated outside 150 U.S. Postal Service facilities in all 50 states to protest job cuts, outsourcing and other union-busting measures — as well as to defend the basic mail service that working people above all depend…
Published on Nov 26, 2014 Will Santa get Cindy’s letter in time for Christmas? Only with YOUR help! Contact your Congressperson, Senators, and the Postmaster General, and tell them to stop the closure of Mail Processing Facilities nationwide, including the Mid Hudson Plant in Newburgh, NY. It’s time to Stop Delaying America’s Mail! This message…
(November 18, 2014) NORFOLK — Around 25 Hampton Roads postal workers gathered inside a Norfolk church Monday night to discuss how to save nearly 500 jobs. The workers are trying to come up with ways to keep the Norfolk Mail Processing Plant open. Plans are in the work to move the mail processing plant to…
Hundreds Cheer Wildly at Announcement That PMG Donahoe is Stepping Down Web News Article #: 208-2014 11/14/2014 – Approximately 250 postal workers and supporters protested loudly in the lobby of Postal Service headquarters after they were denied entry to a “public” meeting of the Board of Governors’ on Nov. 14. But they cheered wildly when…
A boisterous crowd gathered in downtown Manchester on a blustery Friday evening to urge lawmakers not to decimate the U.S. Postal Service. This rally was part of a National Day of Action to stop the closing of 82 mail processing plants starting in January. The deconstructing of the Postal Service network continues despite the fact…
Click Here for FLICKR Photos: Workers Rally at Postal HQ as Postmaster General Donahoe Resigns (via Brother Joe Piette, NALC Retiree) Postal Headquarters officials kept an overflow crowd in the lobby as beleaguered Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe finally resigned on Nov 14. Chanting for over an hour, the boisterous crowd eventually held a rally outside,…
Also see: Photos: Postal Workers Rally at USPS HQ on National Day Of Action – Nov. 14
