While the United Parcel Service is busy looking for innovative ways to make its retail stores more profitable, the Postal Service can only think about more junk mail. Rather than seeing value in its own network of brick-and-mortar post offices, the Postal Service is cutting the hours at 13,000 small offices, replacing historic downtown post offices with retail counters in … Read More
Consternation and confusion: Putting POStPlan in place
The Postal Service began implementing POStPlan a couple of weeks ago, and in a post last week we reported on problems that had already begun to emerge: surveys sent only to box holders, meetings scheduled during the workday, using the post office lobby as the meeting place.  A few more news reports have come out, and several people wrote in about … Read More
POStPlan implementation: The surveys go out, the trouble begins
Last week the Postal Service began notifying citizens across the country that their post office would either have its hours reduced or be closed completely. Reports from the field indicate that the Postal Service will not be rolling out POStPlan in a very gradual way. It appears that any post office with a postmaster vacancy will be reviewed immediately, and … Read More
An Open Letter to Senator Collins: It’s time for a new vision of the Postal Service
[A few days ago, former postmaster Mark Jamison wrote a letter to Senator Susan Collins of Maine, urging her to exert her influence in Congress to change the direction of the Postal Service before it's too late. Mr. Jamison can be reached at Mij455@gmail.com, and his contributions to Save the Post Office are archived here.—Ed.] Dear Senator Collins: I am … Read More
To NSA or not to NSA? The Valassis Question
BY MARK JAMISON I would earnestly warn you against trying to find out the reason for and explanation of everything…. To try and find out the reason for everything is very dangerous and leads to nothing but disappointment and dissatisfaction, unsettling your mind and in the end making you miserable. — Queen Victoria to her granddaughter Why would the Postal … Read More
