Sen. Carper: USPS Has Lost Over $700 Million Since Senate Passed Postal...
One Month after Senate Action, Sen. Carper Calls Attention to Deeper Postal Service Losses while House Delays Since the Senate passed a postal reform bill on April 25, the Postal Service has lost over...
View ArticleCongressman Ross: Saving Our Rural Post Offices
Ross Lead Effort to Keep Post Offices Open Washington – As you know, last year the United States Postal Service dramatically increased its attempts to close post offices around the country in order to...
View ArticleSen. Carper Launches New Facebook Timeline to Highlight U.S. House’s Failure...
WASHINGTON – Today, as postal losses surpassed $1 billion since the U.S. Senate passed its bipartisan bill to reform the U.S. Postal Service, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), co-author of the 21st Century...
View ArticleLetter Carriers Annual Food Drive Collects 70 Million Pounds of Food for the...
With Hunger Rising, and School Food Programs Ending, Effort Will Help Feed Needy Families in All 50 States WASHINGTON, D.C., June 5, 2012 —In a highly successful nationwide food drive, the National...
View ArticleSenator Murkowski to USPS: Step Up War on Drugs in Southeast Alaska
Senator Urges Increased Collaboration Between Postal Service and Local Law Enforcement WASHINGTON, D.C. – As communities throughout Southeast Alaska report significant volumes of illegal drugs...
View ArticleSenator Casey Calls on OIG to Resume Stalled Audit of USPS Decision to Close...
USPS Inspector General Agreed to Independent Audit of Closure Decisions – Audit Has Been Stalled in Wake of Changes to the USPS National Consolidation Plan Senator Calls for Immediate Resumption of...
View ArticleIllinois Governor Signs Law to Strengthen Mail Carrier Safety
Governor Quinn Signs Law to Strengthen Mail Carrier Safety New Law Increases Penalties for Crimes Against Mail Carriers ROCKFORD ¬– June 15, 2012. Governor Pat Quinn today signed a new law that will...
View ArticleCongressman Kucinich to Host “Hunger Strike to Save the Postal Service”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 22, 2012) – On Monday, June 25, 2012 at 10:00 am et, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) will host 10 postal activists from across the country as they kick off a hunger strike to...
View ArticlePRC Denies APWU Request for Emergency Relief on USPS Consolidation Plans
Washington, DC – The Postal Regulatory Commission (Commission) today denied a Motion from the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) requesting an Emergency Order preventing the Postal Service from...
View ArticleSenators Call for House Action on Postal Reform
WASHINGTON – Anticipating the imminent default by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on its required pre-payment for future retiree health benefits, the Senate authors of comprehensive postal reform...
View ArticleMichigan State Reps. Call for Halt to USPS Lansing mail processing center
Closure of Collins Road processing facility to hurt Lansing economy (November 13, 2014) – LANSING – State Representatives Andy Schor (D-Lansing) and Tom Cochran (D-Mason) today called for immediate...
View ArticleMichigan State Senator urges Congress to stop closure of Lansing mail...
(November 13, 2014) LANSING—A resolution sponsored by Sen. Rick Jones formally requests Congress to prohibit the U.S. Postal Service from closing or consolidating the mail processing and distribution...
View ArticleUS Postal Service Poised to Make Devastating Cuts in Service – Postal Workers...
APWU Press Release: 11/13/2014 Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and the USPS Board of Governors, the board that oversees the U.S. Postal Service, are poised to make devastating cuts in service to the...
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