April 2020 - Save the Post Office

Congress Must Stand Up to the White House and Deliver Relief to the Postal Service

SteveApril 28, 2020Blog, Slideshow

If our leaders don’t act, soon you may not be able to mail a letter at all.

The Founders never intended the Postal Service to be managed like a business

SteveApril 27, 2020Blog, Slideshow

The Postal Service is supposed to serve the public good — not worry about profit

Where’s the Nearest Bank and Ballot Box? Try the Post Office

SteveApril 26, 2020Blog, Slideshow

The Postal Service should be allowed to deliver low-cost financial services to poor and rural communities. And vote-by-mail should be universal.

Save the Postal Service

SteveApril 25, 2020Blog, Slideshow

Trump’s personal hostility has merged with long-standing conservative antipathy to endanger a vital civic institution

What’s an Essential Service in a Pandemic? The Post Office

SteveApril 15, 2020Blog, Slideshow

From the census to the November election, the Postal Service is critical to American democracy.

USPS OIG: Maintaining Rural Retail Networks: Best Practices Abroad and Implications for the U.S. Postal Service

SteveApril 9, 2020Blog

USPS Office on Inspector General: To maintain their rural networks of post offices, some foreign posts have reduced hours, outsourced post office operations, or generated various forms of non-postal revenue. The Postal Service is legally entitled to request a $460 million annual subsidy from Congress for retail operations but has chosen not to do so since 1982. Many global postal operators, including the Postal Service, face difficulty covering the costs of their rural post offices. At the same time, rural post … Read More

Pandemic forces Postal Service to suspend dozens of post offices

SteveApril 9, 2020Blog, Slideshow

The Postal Service has so far experienced only minor operational impacts, but nearly 60 post offices have been temporarily suspended.

Community and Postal Workers United Spring 2020 Newsletter

SteveApril 9, 2020Blog

The CPWU Spring 2020 newsletter contains articles about the fight for hazard pay during the pandemic, organizing postal facilities for safety, and the anniversary of the great postal strike of 1970. Read the newsletter here.