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6.28.2012
Postal Workers Continue Hunger Strike
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Postal Workers Start Third Day of Hunger Strike to Save USPS "... “Corporate America is trying to steal your postal service,” said Jam...
6.21.2012
Join over 400 community groups, clergy, citizens, and postal workers endorsing hunger strike
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Turning up the heat: The DC Hunger Strike "... On June 25th, a band of protestors will travel to Washington DC to stage a four-day hun...
6.15.2012
Senate bill could save some postal processing centers
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U.S. Senate bill could save Quincy postal processing site "... U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., inserted a provision into an appropriati...
6.14.2012
Postal Service should follow federal preservation laws when considering disposal of these buildings
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Historic Post Offices: An Inventory of the Legacy "... Among the Trust's main concerns is the way the Postal Service has been hand...
6.08.2012
Hunger strike over the Postmaster General sending the postal service into a death spiral
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Hunger strikers protest end of first class overnight mail delivery "... “The Postmaster General is sending the service into a death sp...
6.05.2012
Send your opinion on POStPlan to the PRC now!
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The PRC wants your opinion on POStPlan, but does the Postal Service want the PRC's? "... You can send your comments to the Postal ...
6.01.2012
POStPlan: Some Post Offices upgrade to Level 18's with Postmaster pay raises
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POStPlan: New lists, maps, financials, and more "... Why 4,600 post offices needed to be upgraded — and their postmasters given at lea...
5.25.2012
Early Retirement and Buy Out Incentives Are Offered to Postal Mail Handlers
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Mail Handlers to be offered retirement incentive "... Mail Handlers who are eligible should be receiving a package in the mail from th...
5.18.2012
Social Security Benefits & Taxes
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Social Security Benefits & Taxes "... So after years of paying income taxes on your “contributions” you are ready to retire and co...
5.16.2012
No postal facility closures this summer
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USPS Announces ‘Modified Consolidation Plan’ "... “The Postal Service is working with its unions regarding an employee incentive offer...
5.10.2012
Buyouts for Postmasters
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USPS to offer buyouts to 21,000 postmasters "... Postmasters that accept the buyout will receive $20,000, split equally between two pa...
Fox News Inaccurate About Postal Service Again
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Fox News, Wrong Again! "... The piece is clearly designed to drum up support for a discredited House bill (H.R. 2309) sponsored by Rep...
5.08.2012
Postal Closure Moratorium Best Option
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Rockefeller, Manchin ask USPS to hold off on closures "... "Despite our concerns about the legislation, we do believe that extend...
5.04.2012
Postal Service should extend moratorium on closures and consolidations
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Manchin urges USPS to extend moratorium "...He has also suggested cost-saving measures to the USPS to achieve savings in ways that wou...
5.03.2012
Postal Service total cost saving estimate drops far below plan
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Revised Estimates for Network Rationalization: Where have all the savings gone? "... With the gross savings reduced by $500 million, t...
4.27.2012
Postmaster General may still rush to shutter mail processing centers after May 15
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Postmaster general: No closing frenzy after May 15 "... The Postal Service, which has lost billions of dollars in recent years, could ...
4.25.2012
No two-year moratorium on plant closures, no supportt from Senator Manchin
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Senator Joe Manchin attempts to save the Postal Service others play politics as usual Senate passes postal bill that would end Saturday mai...
4.23.2012
Purposeful Postal Service Destruction?
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Is Congress killing the USPS? "... this appears as if some in Congress are actually trying to destroy the postal service. Heaven help ...
4.17.2012
Will Senate save some mail processing plants and let some states suffer?
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Senate seeks to salvage U.S. Postal Service "... Left out of the bill was a proposal to raise the price of a first-class postage stamp...
3.31.2012
Buy your own ZIP code
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Town for sale: Buy your own ZIP code "... The town of Buford, Wyo., will be auctioned April 5, according to the Casper Tribune newspap...
3.28.2012
Postmaster General plan would push postal retirees onto Medicare
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Expert: USPS pullout would jeopardize federal health insurance program "... "Just to break even, the USPS will have to reduce ben...
3.21.2012
Postal Service Retirement Announcements Coming Soon...
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Politics, Network Optimization and Early Retirement "...As Senator Susan Collins’ speech on the Senate floor indicated, the Postal Ser...
3.15.2012
"utter disaster" caused by Mail Processing Facility closure according to...
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Closure of Frederick Mail Processing Facility 'utter disaster,' according to director of union organization "...sent to Baltim...
3.13.2012
Large mailers entrenched in the mail system may soon have to conform
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US Postal Service Cutbacks May Impact Large Customers "... Large customers entrenched in the mail system may soon have to conform to a...
3.08.2012
USPS suspends plans to close more than 200 processing plants
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USPS suspends plans to close processing plants "... Postal Service has suspended plans to close more than 200 processing plants......
3.03.2012
Postal contract provision is protecting employees from USPS attacks
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Nearly 900 postal service jobs on chopping block in New Orleans "... "There is a contract provision that states that no one can b...
2.29.2012
Overnight delivery of First Class Mail being degraded
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Local mail impacted by closing of Bemidji processing center "...will see is the loss of the overnight commitment of first-class mail.....
2.23.2012
Perhaps it’s time for the People of the United States to take the U.S. Postal Service to court
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A Civil Action: The People of the United States vs. The U.S. Postal Service "...Another area of potential environmental impact is the ...
2.19.2012
USPS could offer both early retirement and buyout incentives to encourage employees to leave
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Postal Service again eyes buyouts, early retirements "... early retirements and buyout offers as a way to slash its staff by 66,000 em...
2.14.2012
Postal Service Statement on White House budget
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PMG thanks President for recognizing need for reform "... refunding to USPS over a period of two years, $10.9 billion in overpayments ...
2.10.2012
Cuts to Federal and Postal pensions approved by House Panel
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House Panel Approves Bill To Cut Postal, Federal Pensions "... “This bill is an outrageous attack on postal and federal employees,” sa...
1.25.2012
Postal Service: “Our baby boomers are retiring, and we need replacements”
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USPS announces job openings in Upstate "... Harry Spratlin, spokesman for the USPS Greater South Carolina District, told GreenvilleOnl...
Postal early retirement and disability
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Early out or disability retirement? "...If the Postal Service offers early retirement, can I take the offer and retire while on worker...
1.20.2012
Limited-edition collectible commemorative
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U.S. Postal Service celebrating Alabama's football national championship "... Postal Service is accepting orders for limited-editi...
1.09.2012
Postal Service says mail to get even slower
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Mail expected to slow as Postal Service deals with losses "...Scheduled to begin this spring, the changes would virtually eliminate an...
1.02.2012
Mail processing facility cuts could disrupt delivery of everything
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Papers feel the pinch: Postal Service cuts would disrupt weekly deliveries "...If the U.S. Postal Service closes 252 mail processing c...
12.30.2011
Postal Service is the best-performing...
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U.S. Postal Service ranked tops (yes, you read that right) "...At the end of a dismal year for the U.S. Postal Service, let’s end on a...
PRC: "ongoing institutional bias within the Postal Service"
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PRC Blasts USPS Retail Closure Plan "... The Postal Service unveiled its list of more than 3,600 facilities post offices, stations and...
12.28.2011
Moratorium On Processing Facility Closures Only Until May 15, 2012
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US Postal Service, Senators Agree On Moratorium On Facility Closures "...The U.S. Postal Service and 15 U.S. senators struck a deal Tu...
12.16.2011
Huntsville Leaders Plead to Keep Vital Postal Facility Open (with video)
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Huntsville mail processing center may relocate to Birmingham "...Huntsville resident Ray Dunavant said if the measure passes, Huntsvil...
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