From the Treasury Department: December 4, 2018 Washington – The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released the Task Force report on the United States Postal System. The report, United States Postal System: A Sustainable Path Forward, provides a series of recommendations to overhaul the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) business model in order to return it […]
Statement: NALC opposes State Department decision to leave UPU Statement from NALC President Fredric Rolando: 10/23/2018 The U.S. State Department’s announced last week that the U.S. will withdraw from the Universal Postal Union (UPU) after a special meeting of the UPU failed to adopt pricing policies (so-called terminal dues) advocated by the United States at […]
Postal workers and their backers rallied Monday to protest what they say is a White House effort to take the U.S. Postal Service private. President Trump says the service needs to be restructured to prevent a bailout funded by taxpayers In May, President Trump signed an executive order creating a task force to evaluate the […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill today introduced a bipartisan resolution that would make clear Congress’ opposition to privatizing the United States Postal Service (USPS). McCaskill’s effort was joined by 27 of her colleagues after a recent Administration proposal included postal privatization. “Local post offices are the backbones of our rural communities—even more so now as […]
President Trump has been mum about the task-force report on the U.S. Postal Service he ordered in April and received last month, which J.P. Morgan analyst Brian Ossenbeck interprets as a sign that Trump wasn’t very happy with the outcome: Trump had issued an executive order on the night of April 12, calling for an […]
8/28/18 On Saturday, a federal judge invalidated key provisions in three executive orders the Trump administration issued in May, which had made it easier for agencies to fire federal workers and placed strict limits on union activities. (The orders did not apply to the Postal Service and its unions.) In her ruling, Judge Ketanji Brown […]
From Government Executive: A task force commissioned by President Trump to recommend steps to put the U.S. Postal Service on firmer financial footing has finished drafting a report, according to an administration official, and is preparing to brief the president on it when he returns to Washington, D.C. While the report is completed and expected […]
Administration’s Proposal Would Include Privatizing Postal Service, Moving USDA’s Food Stamp Program to HHS, & Relocating Several Federal Departments Last Month, Heitkamp Met with President’s Postal Task Force to Stress the Need for Legislative Solutions to Address Postal Service’s Challenges; In March, Heitkamp Introduced Bipartisan, Comprehensive Legislation to Stabilize the Postal Service WASHINGTON, D.C. – […]
President Donald Trump is doubling down on his claims that Amazon is abusing its relationship with the US Postal Service. “The Amazon Washington Post has gone crazy against me ever since they lost the Internet Tax Case in the U.S. Supreme Court two months ago,” Trump tweeted on Monday. “Next up is the U.S. Post […]
6/22/2018 Yesterday, on the 517th day of Donald Trump’s presidency, his Administration called for the restructuring and ultimate privatization of the United States Postal Service. In a wide-ranging plan to reorganize parts of the federal government, the Office of Management and Budget proposed the creation of a “sustainable business model” for the Postal Service that eventually leads to […]