There’s been a post office in Ward, Colorado, since 1863, and it’s currently housed in an 1898 schoolhouse that’s on the National Register of Historic Places. Ward's post office is being studied for closure under the Retail Access Optimization Initiative, and it’s had the community meeting and gone through a comment period. Ward is now waiting to hear its fate. … Read More
Bad News Comes in Threes: How Congress, Industry, and Management Have Made a Mess Out of Things
By Mark Jamison [The author is a postmaster for the USPS. In keeping with the USPS Administrative Support Manual, section 363, Mr. Jamison does not "speak for or act on behalf of the Postal Service." His comments represent his personal views and observations based on 28 years of service, and they are intended for no other purpose than to expand … Read More
Moving toward the End-Game: A moratorium maybe, a Goldway dissent, a PMG promise to hold off on closing post offices and DUOs too
A moratorium on post office closings came a step closer today, the Postmaster General has apparently promised to hold off on closing post offices until the first of the year, and the Chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission dissented on an appeals decision again. A big day in postal world (and don't even mention the stock market). Earlier in the … Read More
The Valpak Brief
James Cox Kennedy is the chairman of Cox Enterprises, a media conglomerate founded by his grandfather. Mr. Kennedy is part of the 1% the Occupy movement is protesting against. Actually, according to the Forbes 400 list, Mr. Kennedy’s $6 billion stake in the family’s company makes him the 53rd richest person in the United States, and that puts him in … Read More
Dismantling the Public Realm: Post Offices for Sale
In July the Postal Service outsourced its real estate and property management business to CB Richard Ellis, the world’s largest commercial real estate company. Today the USPS-CBRE website is up and running, showing off some 90 post office buildings as well as 36 land parcels, all for sale. The Postal Service must be in a big hurry to dismantle … Read More
NAPUS calls for a moratorium on post office closings
Yesterday, the National Association of Postmasters of the U.S. (NAPUS) called for a moratorium on post office closings. That’s a big deal, and it will give the cause a lot of momentum. Calls for a moratorium on post office closing have been growing. In August, Iowa’s Governor Terry Branstad called for one, and earlier this week Representative Nick Rahall of … Read More
The first RAOI post office closes, more Village Post Offices open, but where’s the hoopla?
It looks like the first post office on the Retail Access Optimization Initiative (RAOI) may have closed already — weeks ago, in fact — but somehow the news slipped by under radar. Plus, five more “Village Post Offices” (VPOs) have opened over the past few weeks, and hardly a word from the Postal Service about that either. Today we learn … Read More
A new call for a moratorium on closures, and more post offices may close, not on any list
Yesterday U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) wrote a letter to the Postmaster General urging him to declare a moratorium on closing post offices. It was the second such call for a moratorium from a high-ranking government official, following Iowa Governor Branstad's request in August. Yesterday also brought news of two post offices being studied for closure that do not … Read More
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