Web News Article #: 14-2018 02/13/2018 – In an effort to protect against further contracting out of retail operations and defend the integrity of customer service and our jobs, the APWU secured a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in the 2015 Collective Bargaining Agreement that imposed a moratorium whereby the Postal Service could not expand any…
Background The U.S. Postal Serviceās retail network is larger than McDonaldās, Starbucks, and Walmart combined ā with over 46,000 physical retail access points. These access points are locations where customers can purchase Postal Service products. They include traditional brick-and-mortar post offices and alternate access points such as self-service kiosks, contract postal units, community post offices,…
In a previous post, “It takes a Village Post Office, but for what?” we questioned the financial rationale for VPOs and asked why many of them were now being placed in densely populated areas. Now thereās more reason to pose such questions. A couple of days ago, an article in The Press Democrat touted the…
STONE COUNTY, MS (WDAM) – The first Village Post Office in South Mississippi has officially opened at a decades-old, rural grocery store in southeast Stone County. U.S. Postal Service officials, county officials, economic developers and store employees gathered for a ribbon-cutting Friday morning at the Big Level Grocery Village Post Office in Perkinston. The facility…
Business expansion is a business strategy used by companies to increase access to their products and services by opening stores in different physical locations while maintaining current business locations. The U.S. Postal ServiceĀ® expands its business by providing a multitude of mailing and shipping options for consumers through various Approved Postal ProviderĀ® agreements like Approved…
STILLWATER, Okla. ā Julie Gosdin USPS Distict Manager, Oklahoma To the editor: This is in reference to the article entitled, āPostal Service is far from a loser,ā (by Jim Hightower) which appeared in the Aug. 7 edition of the Stillwater News Press. The author was absolutely right about one thing ā that the Postal Service…
Six Village Post Offices (VPOs) recently opened on three different islands across Hawaii. The new VPOs, a pair each on Maui, Oahu and Hawaii Island, bring Honolulu District to a total of seven VPOs. Keoki Torres, owner of KTās Auto Repair and VPO in Hawaii Kai, Oahu, said opening the VPO has generated positive awareness…
(July 27, 2014) Richmond District has achieved quite a feat ā it has the highest number of Village Post Offices (VPOs) in the Capital Metro Area and 21 of the 685 VPOs the Postal Service has opened across the nation. Richmond District has achieved quite a feat ā it has the highest number of Ā Village…
