Senator Calls on Postmaster General to Delay Consolidation of Four Ohio Mail Facilities

Including the Akron Processing and Distribution Center Letter to USPS Was Signed by 29 U.S. Senators; Urges More Thorough Review of Local Impact before Consolidation Moves Forward Monday, December 1, 2014 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) joined 29 colleagues in a letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe urging the U.S. Postal […]

Senators Send Bipartisan Letter Demanding USPS postpone planned plant closings

Senators demand Postal Service delay consolidation of mail processing facilities after Inspector General’s report indicates lack of transparency, inadequate impact studies, failure to properly inform public (December 1, 2014) WASHINGTON – Missouri U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt, along with a bipartisan group of Senate colleagues, today demanded a delay in the planned consolidation […]

Senator Boxer: House Republican Plan to Fund Highway Trust Fund is “Unworkable”

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) issued the statement below in response to a memo sent by House Republican leadership to House Republican caucus members late Friday outlining a plan to use revenue from eliminating Saturday mail service as the primary method of funding the Highway Trust Fund for a period of months. Senator Boxer said: “Late […]

Letter: USPS And NALC

Confessions of a Former Station Manager: Letter to President Barack Obama, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Elton Gallegly US Postal Service and The National Assocation of Letter Carriers 1. It has become clear that a wide chasm is being formed between the workers and the rulers in America. This is true, also, […]

Letter to Rep. Gallegly: USPS OIG Can't Get Bernstock Prosecuted?

Letter sent to President Barack Obama, Senators Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer and Congressman Elton Gallegly by Guy Nohrenberg, Simi Valley,CA How is it that the US Postal Service Office of Inspector General (USPS OIG) cannot get Robert F. Bernstock prosecuted? The OIG has gathered enough evidence on this Postal Official to send it to the […]

Local APWU Calls For Congressional Investigation of Oakland, California Mail Center

Oakland APWU President Fred Jacobs urges other locals to follow suit in requesting an investigation. Dear Chairman, Representative and Senators: We, the undersigned Oakland Local 78 APWU members, Oakland Post Office P&DC bid cluster Postal Service employees, union officials, customers, concerned citizens, and constituents of the 9th Congressional District, over the years have stood by […]