Roosevelt Island residents together with Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Assemblymember Micah Kellner, State Senator Jose Serrano, NYC Council Member Jessica Lappin and Postal Union members protest possible closing of Roosevelt Island Post Office
Two can play that game: The PRC changes the rules for appeals
Changing the rules in the middle of the game? Looks like two can play that game. In July, the Postal Service changed the rules for closing post offices. Some of the changes were responses to criticisms made by the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) about how the Postal Service was making it difficult for patrons to protest a post office closing. … Read More
Let’s Talk: How the Postal Service Values Its Employees
The Postal Service keeps talking about how it needs to act “like a business,” and that’s why it wants to “optimize” the retail network and “optimize” the workforce by closing thousands of post offices and putting hundreds of thousands out of work. But what kind of business would treat its customers and employees this way? What kind of a business … Read More
Save the Post Office Unleashes Its Secret Weapon
With over 200,000 jobs and 4,500 post offices on the line, there’s a war for survival going on. The national media is still printing the USPS press releases about how much money the agency is losing and how shedding jobs and shuttering post offices is inevitable. “Save the Post Office,” along with the postal workers unions and the postmaster associations, … Read More
Send the Love Comments
Send a message about how much you care for your post office or something about the people who work at there, or the person who puts the mail in your mailbox, or the Post Office itself. See more comments and sign the moratorium on post office closings here. (Click here to return to the "Save the Post" Office homepage. … Read More
Send the Love
Saving the post office is going to take a lot of arguing and lobbying, but the strongest weapon is the simplest — love. The “Send the Love” campaign is about sending messages of support and gratitude for our postal workers during this time of crisis. If we want to preserve "the people’s post office," we're going to have to … Read More
My Romance
I met my husband Russell twenty-two years ago in Michigan when he was an artist in residence at Lakeside Center for the Arts, a client of my public relations business back then. He was also a professor of art at Youngstown State University, about twelve miles from the PA-Ohio state line. He lived in a barn he had converted. Â … Read More
The Perfect Storm: How everything is coming together to take the Postal Service apart
[The following article was written by a postmaster. "Save the Post Office" is proud to present it as our first "guest blog post." Although the author was perfectly willing to have his name published, it did not seem prudent, given the possibility of trouble with USPS management. When you read it, you’ll understand why I asked the author to remain … Read More
Interrogatories from American Postal Workers Union
[The original document is here.] 1-2. The APWU asks for details about all of the facilities being studied for closure and those that are not on the RAOI list: the hours of operation; the facility finance number and corresponding main office finance number, e.g., the finance number assigned to a station and the corresponding finance number for the main … Read More
NAPUS Interrogatories and Responses
The National Association of Postmasters has submitted two extensive lists of questions and requests for further information. Group 1: Questions #1 – #22 [The original document is here.] 1. NAPUS asks for a list of the 2,000 post offices that had earned workload of 2 hours or less per day, and annual revenue less than $27,500. 2. Which of … Read More
Don’t touch my junk: The bulk mail industry says hands off our profits
Nobody likes it when the Postal Service raises its postage rates, but maybe it’s time to consider a rate hike. It won't be a popular idea, but it might be better than closing thousands of post offices and laying off over a hundred thousand workers and pushing thousands more out of their jobs. Not that a small increase in postage … Read More
The Shock Doctrine: Why the Postal Service is scaring the hell out of us
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe wants to close half the country’s post offices, cut a third of all postal jobs, and pull the Postal Service out of its federal health and retirement programs. That’s 16,000 post offices, 220,000 jobs, and a lot of lost benefits. He’s doing all this to save the Postal Service, but there’s good reason to fear that … Read More
Rolling Out Red’s: Meet your first Village Post Office
The Postal Service is rolling out its inaugural “Village Post Office” this week, and it's the cutest little place you ever saw. It’s called “Red’s Hop N’ Market,” and it’s located in the small town of Malone, Washington, pop. 473. The Postal Service closed Malone’s post office on August 9, and it opened the Village Post Office (VPO) in Red’s … Read More
Witness Boldt replies to Goldway’s information requests
On August 9, 2011, USPS witness James Boldt has replied to Goldway’s information request No. 1 (August 2, 2011). Here are his responses: [The original document is here.] 1. Goldway had asked for a “digital copy of all demographic, economic, and geographic data that will be used to develop profiles for evaluation of each candidate facility.” Boldt responds that “the … Read More