This post originally appeared on the USPS Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) website. We have all read the negative headlines of U.S. Postal Service’s looming financial demise. However, in its new…
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Monthly Archives: April 2015
By Lisa Rein. This post originally appeared in the Washington Post. The U.S. mail is slowing down. In January, the Postal Service eliminated overnight delivery for local first-class letters that used…
By Bill Fletcher Jr. This post originally appear in the New Pittsburgh Courier. I remember reading a piece by a right-wing think-tank in 1990 calling for the privatization of the…
By Ralph Nader. This post originally appeared on Huffington Post. The ongoing, preventable plight of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is an important issue for those of us who have…
By Katherine McFate. This post originally appeared on Center for Effective Government’s blog, The Fine Print. America’s founders recognized that commerce requires a common infrastructure. Did you know that when you…
By David Johnson, Campaign for America’s Future. This post originally appeared at Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. The Conservative/Wall Street/1 Percent/Republican anti-government strategy is to set…
From Hightower Lowdown, March 2015, Volume 17, Number 3 Instead of shrinking the postal service, let’s THINK BIG about what it could be We all know the word “valentine” from the…
Yes. It has already begun. Postal executives deny any interest in privatizing the agency – and so do most politicians. But many on Wall Street and in Congress are eager...
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The U.S. Postal Service, our great national treasure, is under attack. Mail service to the American people is suffering. And a great public institution is threatened with privatization. On Jan....
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Lowdown Call-Up #1: Save the public post office! Featuring Mark Dimondstein, President of the APWU On March 24th, Hightower hosted our first ever Lowdown Call-Up– a strategy discussion covering the…