NALC has released a VOTER GUIDE for its members. The challenger Dave Peiser is running against Rep. Darrell Issa in California’s 49th Congressional District. While NALC has endorsed Peiser, they have also endorsed 25 Republicans. In this year’s election it is crucial for Democrats to take over majority in the House of Representatives. NALC also […]
Washington, DC – (August 28,2014) Today the Postal Regulatory Commission issued final regulations that establish new procedures concerning requests from the Postal Service to conduct market tests of experimental products. The regulations balance the Commission’s oversight authority over market tests with the Postal Service’s need for flexibility to test new product ideas. The regulations also […]
The data on this page represents preliminary financial information for the month of July 2014 required by the Postal Regulatory Commission to be reported on a monthly basis. This data has not been subjected to all closing procedures and reviews required to present interim quarterly financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), […]
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday addressed the annual convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers. He drew standing ovations from the big convention crowd in Philadelphia for opposing cuts in services and jobs at the U.S. Postal Service at a time of rising revenue. Sanders is the chief sponsor of legislation to modernize the […]
The member of Congress who wrote the 2006 law that has been widely blamed for the United States Postal Service’s financial crisis is defending that act but warning that lawmakers are unlikely to come quickly to the agency’s rescue. Former House Committee on Government Reform chairman Tom Davis laid that forecast before a July 16 […]
The FedEx Corporation is requesting that PRC “blunt the advantages the Postal Service has as a government entity.” It appears Fedex is not happy with proposals by the U.S. Postal Service (“USPS”), filed on July 1, 2014, to sharply reduce Priority Mail rates for middle-weight packages and increase prices for low-weight retail packages.” FedEx claims […]
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. […]
It all began in 2006 during the Bush administration. It was the end of the U.S. Postal Service in this country as we know it. The Republican Congress passed legislation demanding the post office prefund 75 years of its employee benefits package in 10 years. This amounted to $5.5 billion annually. There is no other […]
Abby Martin speaks with RT Political Commentator, Sam Sacks, about why Congress intentionally bankrupted the US Postal Service and how the push to corporatize the mail industry is hurting us all.
In a May 9, 2014 press release, the Postal Service issued another quarterly press release turning an operating profit (of $261 million) into a loss. The supposed loss, an accounting fiction, was caused entirely by the 2006 law which generates a long-term loan to the Federal treasury, under the guise of “pre-funding” employee benefits. In […]