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• Closing Maps
  • RAOI Closing Map (7/26/11)
  • Removed from RAOI: Map
  • Non-RAOI Map (7/27/11)
  • AMP Consolidation Map (9/15/11)
  • Post Offices Closed in 2011 Map
  • Appeals
• Closing Lists
  • RAOI Closing List (7/26/11)
    • Official USPS RAOI List
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    • Tennessee
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    • Utah
    • Vermont
    • Virginia
    • Washington
    • West Virginia
    • Wisconsin
    • Wyoming
  • Removed from RAOI: List
  • Non-RAOI List (7/27/11)
  • State-by-State Summary of July 2011 closing lists
  • AMP Consolidations
  • Post Offices Closed in 2011 List
  • Appeals
• Counter Narratives
  • Congress’s war on the post office (Salon)
  • Principles for Postal Service Reform
  • Do you need your mailman? Phil Rubio on NPR
  • Save the Post Office! (Nation)
  • 'Save the Post Office' Movement Defends 'the Human Side of Government' (Nation)
  • Wait a Minute, Mr. Postmaster: Postal Service Privatizers Push Manufactured Crisis (The Indypendent)
  • Twisted government accounting behind Postal Service woes (MSNBC)
  • Are We About to Lose the Postal Service? (AlterNet)
  • Bogus Postal Service crisis deserves to get a Return to Sender (NY Daily News)
  • Destroying the Postal Service - another Manufactured Crisis (Thom Hartmann)
  • Destroying the Postal Service in Order to Save It? (OpEd News)
  • How the Right Wing Destroyed the U.S. Postal Service (Majority Report)
  • Postal Service: Death by Bathtub Drowning (truthout)
  • Postal Workers: The Last Union (truthout)
  • Shock Doctrine at U.S. Postal Service: Is A Manufactured Crisis Behind Push to Privatize? (Democracy Now)
• Place Index
  • Alabama
    • Sheffield AL
  • Arkansas
    • Boles AR
    • Fort Smith AR
  • California
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  • Connecticut
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  • Florida
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  • Georgia
    • Canton GA
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  • Illinois
    • Coatsburg IL
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  • Iowa
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  • Kansas
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  • Maryland
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  • Minnesota
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  • Nebraska
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  • New Jersey
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  • New Mexico
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  • New York
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  • Virginia
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  • Washington
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  • West Virginia
    • Hacker Valley WV
  • Wyoming
    • Bairoil WY
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• Topics
  • Post Office Stories
  • Analysis of closings
  • Big Picture
  • Closure Moratorium
  • Congressional Testimony
  • Emergency Suspensions
  • For sale
  • Historic Post Offices
  • History
  • Internet myth
  • Legislation
  • Mail industry
  • Media coverage
  • New Deal Post Offices
  • PRC cases
  • Privatization
  • Reports & studies
  • Save Your Post Office
  • Village Post Office
  • Week in Review
  • Plant consolidations
  • Recommended
  • Secret market survey
• PRC Advisory Opinion
  • PRC website docket
  • Docket summaries
    • PRC Docket No. N2011-1 and the Future of the Post Office
    • The USPS Requests an Advisory Opinion
    • Testimony of James J. Boldt for the USPS
    • PRC initiates the proceedings
    • Presiding Officer’s Information Request No. 1
    • Boldt's responses to Goldway's Information Request No. 1
    • Interrogatories of the Public Representative
    • Interrogatories of the Limited Participant and USPS Responses
    • Issues over the two documents under seal
    • NAPUS Interrogatories & Responses
    • APWU Interrogatories & Responses
    • Cross-exam of League of Postmasters
    • The Valpak Brief
    • The Postal Service Runs Amok: How not to close a post office
    • The Advisory Opinion: Transformative Moment or Bump in the Road
• News & Blogs
  • burrusjournal
  • Courier, Express, And Postal Observer
  • Dead Tree Edition
  • Federal Times
  • Going Postal
  • Iowa Backroads
  • PostalMag
  • Postal Journal
  • Postal Employee Network
  • PEN Postal News
  • Postal News
  • Postal Newsgroup
  • Post Office Freak
  • Postal Reporter
  • PostalReporter News Blog
  • RuralInfo Postal News
  • 21st Century Postal Worker
• Organizations
  • APWU
  • AUSPL
  • NALC
  • National League of Postmasters
  • NAPUS
  • NPMU
  • NRLC
  • PostCom
• Government
  • Office of Inspector General
  • OIG Blog
  • Postal Regulatory Commission
  • USPS Newsroom
  • US Postal Service
• Save Our P.O. Sites
  • Avalon, TX
  • Camak GA
  • Cheyney, PA
  • Cincinnati
  • Chimacum, WA
  • Cottondale, AL
  • East Village, Des Moines, IA
  • Goodyear Heights, Akron, OH
  • Hawleyville, CT
  • Healdsburg, CA
  • Holman, NM
  • Las Olas CA
  • Lititz, PA
  • Northfield, MN
  • Oreland, PA
  • Pensacola, FL
  • Penataquit Station
  • Raleigh, NC
  • Rhinecliff, NY
  • Sleepy Hollow, NY
  • Still Pond MD
  • Tariffville, CT
  • Ukiah, CA
  • Valley Station, KY
  • Venice, CA
  • West Virginia Post Offices
  • Westside Pavilion LA CA
  • Save Our Rural Arkansas Post Offices
• Save the PO in the News
  • Downsize Means Destroy (NY Times)
  • Washington Post Profile
  • How the U.S. Postal Service Fell Apart (Time)
  • Ralph Nader: Time to Save the Post Office
  • Gothamist Interview
  • NYU Local Interview
  • 'Save the Post Office' Movement Defends 'the Human Side of Government' - Nation
  • 10 Remedies for an Ailing Postal Service - The Street
  • Chicago Postal Worker
  • Daily Kos
  • Google Maps Mania
  • Letter Writers Alliance
  • Liberation
  • Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  • NYU Professor Goes Postal - NY Intel
  • Nutty Professor Fights to Save USPS from 'Greedy Corporations' — The Blaze
  • One Man’s Efforts to Save the Post Office — NC Letter Carrrier Activist
  • USPS Cuts Loom (Huffington Post)
  • Tiny towns battle to keep their post offices
  • WWRL Interview
  • Post Office still vital for the masses (AJC op-ed)
  • Texas town fears the worst if post office closes (Star-Telegram)
  • Wrecking America's Postal Service — the people's voice.org

More AMP studies released

More numbers on the AMP studies

The numbers on AMP consolidations just don't add up

It Hits the Fan: The Postal Service Can't Wait to Close the Plants

35,000 jobs lost and "No Significant Impact"?

USPS Environmental Impact Analysis

Slowing down the mail

Consolidating the network

The Case for Consolidation

The PRC docket

Closing List (2/23/2012)

USPS FAQ page

Request for Advisory Opinion

Employee Impacts

Map of the plants

List of the plants

AMP Guidelines

USPS status report

APWU status report

USPS study list

Selling off the legacy of the New Deal

The fading genius of the US post office (Guardian)

"Les lettres mortes de l'urbanisme américain" (Liberation)

Nation Magazine's

Progressive Honor Roll

picks "Save the Post Office"

as the Most Valuable Website

of 2011.