From Communities and Postal Workers United: Many people think, what is the problem? The mail only has to travel an extra 50 miles to the new sorting facility and 50 miles back, an extra couple of hours. What’s the big deal? Why is the mail being delayed days or even weeks?
Flying squads of postal pickets on wheels hit the bricks on Labor Day Embattled postal truckers protest privatization The working-class is disenchanted with the status quo Community and Postal Workers to Protest Postal Privatization When: September 2, 2013 from 10 am till 1 pm. Where: Santa Ana Post Office, 2201 N Grand Ave., Santa Ana, […]
Communities and Postal Workers United A mystery vehicle suddenly blocked a private truck attempting to transport mail at the Mt. Hood Distribution Center (US Postal Service) at 9am this morning (8/14/2013). A ten-foot banner reading “Stop the Privatization of the People’s Postal Service” covered one side of the silver station wagon, tying the action to […]
Tent City to privateers: Hands off the public commons! Halt the heist of the Post Office! Berkeley, California, August 7, 2013 – The Tent City on the steps of Berkeley’s main post office is now in its 12th day. Two dozen campers have been sleeping there to rally opposition to the Grand Theft of the […]
Building a powerful nationwide grass-roots movement to Save The People’s Post Office By Dave Welsh Without question, the big-business class – and their agents in USPS headquarters, the executive branch and Congress – are on a path to dismantle the Postal Service, privatize the profitable parts of it, and neutralize or destroy the postal unions. […]
From Portland Communities and Postal Workers United Privatization protest includes birthday party Dozens of protesters rallied and attempted to occupy the Main Post Office on NW Hoyt this afternoon. The protest against postal privatization was thwarted by a heavy presence of Department of Homeland Security police, Postal Inspectors and a half dozen postal managers standing […]
Communities and Postal Workers United Blockade of private truck at Portland mail facility Ten protesters blocked a private mail truck leaving the Mt. Hood Distribution Center (US Postal Service) today, demanding that postal management stop subcontracting the trucking of “the people’s mail.” Claiming concerns about safety, cost and corruption, the blockaders left after police ordered […]
Protestors occupy private airport mail facility; five arrested. July 3, 2013, Portland, Oregon. Five protestors, calling themselves “postal protectors”, were arrested July 3 in an occupation of a private air cargo facility slated to handle and process US mail. “Postal mail handlers and mail processing clerks are losing their jobs to profiteering, private corporations,” declared […]
From Communities and Postal Workers United: Five protestors, calling themselves “postal protectors”, were arrested today in an occupation of a private air cargo facility slated to handle and process US mail. “Postal mail handlers and mail processing clerks are losing their jobs to profiteering, private corporations,” declared Jamie Partridge, a retired letter carrier who joined […]
From Communities and Postal Workers United Over forty demonstrators, ten of whom blocked the entrance to the Portland Air Cargo Center (US Postal Service), declared victory against “postal privatizers” today. According to postal service managers, several morning mail runs by subcontractor Dill Star trucking were disrupted by the protest.