We Are Our Own Worst Enemies By Fredric Jacobs, Oakland Local APWU President Many years ago, in a now-defunct comic strip, one of the characters announced, “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” In several significant ways that is true for us as postal workers and Union members, as well as the rest […]
Most Americans have never heard of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006. The mind-numbing title alone sounds like it could put a hardcore insomniac to sleep. The truth is, it’s one of the most insane laws Congress ever enacted. It’s past time for people in the Roanoke Valley to wake up about it. […]
Sen. Thomas Carper: Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement reacting to the Postmaster General’s announcement that the Postal Service will consolidate up to 82 mail processing facilities: “Given the U.S. Postal Service’s ongoing financial difficulties, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Postmaster General is moving […]
Rep. Tom Latham, R-Iowa, has stated that he will cosponsor an amendment to maintain six-day delivery One way to stop the decline of the Postal Service would be to raise the price of postage, though that could result in fewer items being mailed — explaining the massive popularity of the forever stamp since its release […]
The Postmaster General and the USPS are lobbying Congress. What are they asking legislators to do? Reduce letter delivery to five days per week; Deny new hires a “defined benefit” retirement (pension) plan; Force injured workers into a poverty retirement. If these points look familiar, they should! They are all part of the severely flawed Senate […]
Washington, DC – June 25, 2014 – Today, Congressman José E. Serrano succeeded in restoring language to an annual appropriations bill requiring the United States Postal Service to maintain six day delivery. The bipartisan amendment, which Congressman Serrano sponsored with Congressman Tom Latham (R-IA), passed and was added to the fiscal year 2015 Financial Services […]
The Senate Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government has approved a Fiscal Year 2015 appropriations bill that includes, as it has for decades, the language mandating that the Postal Service deliver the mail six days a week. “We applaud this news, and we strongly encourage the senators on the full appropriations committee to vote […]
$19 billion of those savings would result from moves to five-day delivery and cluster boxes, says the Congressional Budget Office. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a financial analysis of the House Postal Reform Act (H.R. 2748) that estimates that, if passed, it would return $23.6 billion in savings to the troubled U.S. Postal […]
Senator’s bill will protect six-day delivery, rural post offices (US SENATE)—Senator John Walsh today cosponsored the Postal Service Protection Act to modernize the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to protect six-day delivery, overnight delivery standards, and protect rural post offices. Walsh’s support for the Postal Service comes at a time when the U.S. House of Representatives […]
June 14, 2014—UPDATED June 16—Earlier this week, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe recklessly endorsed the House of Representative’ leadership’s outrageous ploy to use massive job and service cuts in the Postal Service to “pay for” a short-term extension of the Highway Trust Fund, which will run out of money in August if Congress fails to raise […]