By Harold Reutter, March 29, 2017, in The Grand Island Independent. While nobody knows what the U.S. Postal Service decision will be on moving post office retail services from downtown Grand…
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Response to Washington Post Editorial Board’s “The Postal Service needs more than a Band-Aid,” February 13, 2017. The Post has set up a false dilemma for its readers: that we…
Letter to the Editor of “The Hill” by President Dimondstein, January 10, 2017, in The Hill. From Mark Dimondstein, President of the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union (APWU), Vice President…
By Dave Johnson, Campaign for America’s Future, Jan. 9, 2017. The Postal Service’s experimental “pilot program” in privatizing the retail end of the USPS using Staples outlets has failed and…
By Joe Davidson, January 5, 2017, The Washington Post. The U.S. Postal Service will discontinue retail services at Staples stores by the first week in March, according to the labor…
By Fredric Rolando, Nov. 28, 2016, originally published by The Hill. A Nov. 14 commentary piece castigated in advance the U.S. Postal Service’s annual financial report – which was announced the…
By Bill McAllister, Nov. 15, 2016, originally published in Linn’s Stamp News. For the third straight year, the United States Postal Service has managed to show an operating profit despite its inability…
By David Roberts, Nov. 4, 2016, Vox. Across the country, people are taking advantage of early voting, which is supposed to be more convenient than voting on Voting Day. Unfortunately,…
Oct. 15, 2016, West Plains Daily Quill. A top watchdog study completed at the request of U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, found that…
By Clive Lewis, Oct. 15, 2016, Huffington Post. Royal Mail is 500 years old this year, an anniversary marked with some fanfare last month. Today however, is three years since Royal…