Stop Service Cuts and Plant Consolidations Tell Your Congressman: Sign the Letter! A bipartisan group in the House of Representatives – five Republicans and five Democrats – has drafted a letter to leaders of the House Appropriations Committee calling for a one-year moratorium on Postal Service plans to close mail processing plants and slow down mail […]
The Wanted Poster: It’s Okay to Post 08/14/2014 – Postal management may not prohibit or otherwise interfere with the display of the APWU’s Wanted poster on union bulletin boards, APWU attorneys report. The poster features a picture of Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe and accuses him of “crimes against the public Postal Service.” Displaying the […]
Kimberly L. Cox filed a lawsuit Aug. 4 in the Eastern District of Texas against Patrick R. Donahoe, as Postmaster General, and the United States Postal Service, citing civil rights violations. According to the complaint, Cox, who is white, was a letter carrier for the Kilgore, Texas Post Office since 1997. In July and August […]
The Postal Service needs help from Congress to stop the red ink, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe told CNBC on Wednesday. Despite an increase in package revenues and an emergency price hike that took effect in January, the agency said Monday it lost $2 billion in the second quarter. “The problem we face … is we […]
08/11/2014 – USPS management is doing its best to keep the good news quiet, but facts are facts. According to reports released by the USPS on Aug. 11, as of June 30, three-quarters of the way through Fiscal Year 2014: Operating income was up by about $1 billion over the previous year; Revenue increased 2.1 […]
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich sent a letter to U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe to express their concerns about the Postal Service’s multi-year “Post Plan” to reduce costs and streamline operations, which may impact over 140 post offices in New Mexico. USPS announced the Post Plan […]
APWU ALERT : Congress can put the breaks on the PMG’s disastrous cuts. Contact your senators today and tell them to stand up for prompt mail service! National Mobilization Guide Against Plant Consolidations and Post Office Closures Attention Postal Employees, Friends of Postal Employees, Your Family Members, Friends, Neighbors and Your Church, Club, and Association […]
According to Wall Street Journal: Some critics question whether the Postal Service is charging the delivery services like FedEx, UPS and Amazon enough for the services. The flood of these packages has begun to tax the system. FedEx and UPS are moving more of their packages through the U.S. Postal Service, putting pressure on the […]
It may not be something that Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and his COO Megan Brennan are likely to take credit for in public, but the U.S. Postal Service has become very good at closing and consolidating postal facilities. So good, in fact, that when Donahoe announced in June that the Postal Service would begin implementation […]
LAWMAKERS EXPRESS CONCERNS OVER PROPOSED CLOSURE OF ROANOKE USPS FACILITY WASHINGTON, D.C. – (July 31, 2014) Today, Congressman Bob Goodlatte, joined by Congressmen H. Morgan Griffith and Robert Hurt, sent a letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe requesting the United States Postal Service to reconsider the proposed closure of the Roanoke Processing and Distribution Center. […]