Too Big to Name? How the Press is (not) covering the story of how the Postal Service is being destroyed Thursday, July 11, 7:00 PM First Unitarian Universalist Church 1187 Franklin St. at Geary San Francisco Free admission More information suppresses embarrassing information about those who own the country The mass media has been almost entirely missing in action on … Read More
Santa Monica activists plan rally to save post office building
Santa Monica activists plan to hold a rally Saturday at the city's post office at 5th Street and Arizona Avenue, a 1930s-era Moderne building that is set to be shut down. Members of the Santa Monica Conservancy, a preservation group, plan to stage the rally at 11 a.m. on what is scheduled to be the last day of operations at … Read More
USPS: A wholly owned subsidiary of Mailers Inc.
BY MARK JAMISON I am a card-carrying member of the DAV — Disabled American Veterans.  The organization has been a wonderful source of support over the years and does fine work on behalf of veterans. So I was disappointed to discover DAV on the membership list of PostCom, the postal lobbying association that represents businesses and organizations that use the … Read More
Postal Service change delays newspaper deliveries in Macon, NC
An unreported U.S. Postal Service change affecting local letter carriers working Macon routes delayed when subscribers on those routes received last week’s edition of The Warren Record.  Carl Walton, a Postal Service spokesman for the Greensboro district, said that Macon letter carriers now begin their workdays at the Warrenton Post Office instead of the Macon Post Office and then go … Read More
Brands at risk: The OIG looks at the USPS-CBRE contract
The USPS Office of Inspector General has just issued an audit report about the Postal Service’s contract with CB Richard Ellis. CBRE became the Postal Service's exclusive real estate agent in June 2011. Considering that the Postal Service leases 24,000 properties and owns 9,000, that's a big portfolio to manage, and outsourcing to CBRE was a big step. The … Read More
FactCheck.org: Feinstein’s Husband & the Postal Service
Q: Does Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum, own a company that has an exclusive contract to sell United States Postal Service property? A: Blum has an interest in the CBRE Group, which won a competitive contract to sell postal properties. He is chairman of CBRE’s board and owns an investment firm that holds less than 5 percent of its … Read More
USPS OIG: Does a Hybrid Postal Model Have Merit?
A recent study from a Washington think tank argues the U.S. Postal Service should provide only last-mile delivery of mail and open all other aspects of the mail system to competition. The report from the non-partisan Information Technology and Innovation Foundation came to a similar conclusion as an earlier proposal from a group of four mailing industry leaders who released … Read More
Betrayal without remedy: The unwinding of the Postal Service
BY MARK JAMISON The United States Postal Service is not a corporation in the traditional sense of the word, but that hasn’t stopped its leadership — the folks at L’Enfant Plaza and the men and women who sit on the Board of Governors — from viewing it primarily as a corporate entity. The post office is in the Constitution, but that … Read More
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