"The USPS has the legal authority to request $460 million from Congress annually to cover the costs of rural service. The USPS has not requested those funds since FY 1982. When adjusted for inflation, the USPS has foregone a total of $25 billion."
https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library-files/2020/RISC-WP-20-003.pdf
You don't "save the post office" by closing them, cutting their hours, understaffing them, relocating them, selling historic buildings, slowing the mail, and raising rates. That's how you kill it.

USPS Is Preparing for Peak Season, But Carriers Are Needed
Here's what Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said about how the USPS is preparing for the holiday shipping season
www.ecommercebytes.com
As a part owner of the US Postal Service, I’d remind the PMG that he works for us, the American people — the Ultimate Stakeholder — and we shouldn’t be told to "fall in line" with a plan we had no part in creating. via @GovExec

As Pressure Ramps Up Against USPS Reforms, DeJoy Asks Stakeholders to Fall in Line
The Postal Service is facing pushback on its plans to raise rates, shrink the workforce and consolidate mail processing.
www.govexec.com
NALC's Rolando: "The interest of letter carriers must be the principle concern in the design of any new Sort and Delivery Centers." We must be "involved upfront as partners ... not just informed and tolerated and consulted after key decisions are made.”

Postal unions demand USPS ramp up hiring to address understaffing | Federal News Network
The National Association of Letter Carriers and the American Postal Workers Union say long-term understaffing is taking a toll on employee morale.
federalnewsnetwork.com
The battle between @USPS and @TheSOC (a coalition of labor unions) over SOC's request to see the contract with Amazon is heating up. SOC makes a good case, but it's very unlikely the @PostalRegulator will grant access. https://www.prc.gov/docs/122/122427/SOCSuppSubmn_MC2021-115_CP2021-117.pdf
https://www.prc.gov/docs/122/122467/USPS%20Response%20to%20SOC%20Supp%20Submn.pdf
Another @PostalRegulator Advisory Opinion begins, this one about the USPS proposal to change the Critical Entry Time for certain categories of periodicals — another element of DeJoy's Delivering for America plan.
https://www.prc.gov/docs/122/122464/N2022-2%20Pre-Filing%20Conference%20Notice.pdf
@TakeOnWallSt @savethebpo @BGAlliance @CenterForBioDiv @Demos_Org @codepink @equaljustice @foe_us @greenpeaceusa @IndivisibleTeam @NRDC @PplsAction @SSWorks @Roots_Action @SierraClub @itstruenorth @WorkingFamilies As longtime critics of DeJoy's disastrous leadership, we and our colleagues @ceprdc are proud to co-sign onto this letter and urge President Biden to not squander this valuable opportunity to reshape the Postal Board of Governors.

Eighty-two groups call on President Biden to fill Postal Board with nominees to hold DeJoy accountable & expand USPS services - Take On Wall Street
Eighty-two groups call on President Biden to fill Postal Board with candidates to hold DeJoy accountable & expand USPS services.
takeonwallst.com
A great video about the Great Postal Strike of 1970.
For more, check out "Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service," by Phil Rubio, a former letter carrier and now a history professor. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469655468/undelivered/#.YvY3Dd_D8D0.twitter
The Revolt of The Good Guys, which was shown in three parts at the #CarriersConvention, tells the story of the letter carriers who earned higher pay, collective bargaining rights and the respect of the nation through the Great Postal Strike of 1970. http://nalc-info.org/revolt-of-the-good-guys
Letter Carriers’ Rolando spells out Amazon threat to postal workers

Letter Carriers’ Rolando spells out Amazon threat to postal workers
CHICAGO - Organizing Amazon against its ever-expanding reach and the radical right extremist threat to democracy are ...
www.peoplesworld.org

Community and Postal Workers United Summer 2022 Newsletter

To Be Discontinued: The Postal Service identifies 170 suspended post offices for permanent closure

Rationale for a Suspension Dashboard: Comments for the PRC’s Public Inquiry

Counting Up Collection Box Removals in 2020-2021: Lists & Maps

Lost in Limbo: Post Offices Under Suspension

How slower mail has become a fact of life: USPS Service Performance and Postal Reform
Emergency Suspension Dashboard

Suspension date: 4/8/2020
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 1/31/2011
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 6/15/2011
Reason: Insufficient Customer Demand

Suspension date: 6/27/2007
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 6/14/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service

Suspension date: 7/24/2021
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 5/9/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor

Suspension date: 9/8/2020
Reason: Damage - Fire

Suspension date: 3/2/2013
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 8/1/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service

Suspension date: 12/3/2012
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 6/25/2009
Reason: Lease terminated lessor

Suspension date: 11/30/2012
Reason: Damage

Suspension date: 12/15/2012
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor

Suspension date: 12/1/2011
Reason: No qualified personnel

Suspension date: 3/7/2012
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor

Suspension date: 9/13/2019
Reason: Lease terminated by Lessor

Suspension date: 6/1/2009
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor

Suspension date: 10/31/2011
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor

Suspension date: 8/25/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor

Suspension date: 1/21/2020
Reason: Building Renovations

Suspension date: 5/23/2014
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 11/8/2010
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 8/30/2010
Reason: Building closed

Suspension date: 9/4/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service

Suspension date: 10/3/2014
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 5/30/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service

Suspension date: 7/31/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service

Suspension date: 8/12/2021
Reason: Building demolished for redevelopment

Suspension date: 5/31/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
When the Postal Service closes a post office for an emergency, like unsafe building conditions after a weather event or a last-minute breakdown in lease negotiations, it's supposed to correct the problem as soon as possible — by making repairs, settling the lease issue or finding a new location. The Postal Service, however, may choose instead to initiate a study about whether or not to close the post office permanently.
The law does not specify a time frame for re-opening the office or completing the discontinuance process, so some post offices can end up in limbo for many years. A large backlog of unresolved suspensions sometimes develops. At the end of fiscal year 2021, there were about 450 post offices under suspension, nearly a hundred of them going back to 2012 or before.
In February, the Postal Regulatory Commission opened a Public Inquiry docket (its second on suspensions) to examine how the the resolution of these suspensions might be expedited, presumably through a modification of the rules governing discontinuances.
To provide a clearer picture of the suspensions and to lend some transparency to the process of resolving them as it unfolds, we’ve created a Suspension Dashboard. It includes a page for each of the 450 suspended offices, with information about its suspension status, community demographics and facility data.
You can view the new suspension dashboard here.
When the Postal Service closes a post office for an emergency, like unsafe building conditions after a weather event or a last-minute breakdown in lease negotiations, it's supposed to correct the problem as soon as possible — by making repairs, settling the lease issue or finding a new location. The Postal Service, however, may choose instead to initiate a study about whether or not to permanently close the post office.
The law does not specify a time frame for re-opening the office or completing the discontinuance process, so some post offices can end up in limbo for many years. A large backlog of unresolved suspensions sometimes develops. At the end of fiscal year 2021, there were about 450 post offices under suspension, nearly a hundred of them going back to 2012 or before.
In February, the Postal Regulatory Commission opened a Public Inquiry docket (its second on suspensions) to examine how the the resolution of these suspensions might be expedited, presumably through a modification of the rules governing discontinuances.
You can view the new suspension dashboard here.

Suspension date: 4/8/2020
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 1/31/2011
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 6/15/2011
Reason: Insufficient Customer Demand

Suspension date: 6/27/2007
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 6/14/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service

Suspension date: 7/24/2021
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 5/9/2013
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor

Suspension date: 9/8/2020
Reason: Damage - Fire

Suspension date: 3/2/2013
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 8/1/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service

Suspension date: 12/3/2012
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 6/25/2009
Reason: Lease terminated lessor

Suspension date: 11/30/2012
Reason: Damage

Suspension date: 12/15/2012
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor

Suspension date: 12/1/2011
Reason: No qualified personnel

Suspension date: 3/7/2012
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor

Suspension date: 9/13/2019
Reason: Lease terminated by Lessor

Suspension date: 6/1/2009
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor

Suspension date: 10/31/2011
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor

Suspension date: 8/25/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor

Suspension date: 1/21/2020
Reason: Building Renovations

Suspension date: 5/23/2014
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 11/8/2010
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 8/30/2010
Reason: Building closed

Suspension date: 9/4/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service

Suspension date: 10/3/2014
Reason: Safety/Health Concerns

Suspension date: 5/30/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service

Suspension date: 7/31/2010
Reason: Lease terminated by Postal Service

Suspension date: 8/12/2021
Reason: Building demolished for redevelopment

Suspension date: 5/31/2014
Reason: Lease terminated by lessor
Collection Box Removals in 2020-2021: Lists & Maps

On August 20, 2020, amidst the furor over box removals, Robert Bracco, using the muckrock.com FOIA request website, filed a request asking the Postal Service to provide data “pertaining to the existence, addition, removal, or relocation of USPS collection boxes inside the United States and territories created or altered after 8/15/2019.”
On March 25, 2022 — nineteen months after the request was filed, and after seventeen follow-up messages inquiring on the status of the request — the Postal Service finally responded. It provided three lists of collection box locations in service in December 2019, 2020 and 2021. The lists make it possible to track additions and removals over this two-year period. We have the lists and maps here.
Service Performance Update
On October 1, 2021, the Postal Service lowered service standards for First Class mail, saying that this would allow it to deliver 95 percent of the mail on time. Since October, scores have averaged about 89 percent, and the Postal Service now says it will not reach 95 percent for two or three years. The new target for FY 2022 is 91 percent.
The weekly performance scores are being submitted as evidence in Pennsylvania v. DeJoy. The most recent report is here. For more performance data, check out our dashboard.
Service Performance Update
On October 1, 2021, the Postal Service lowered service standards for First Class mail, saying that this would allow it to deliver 95 percent of the mail on time. Since October, scores have averaged about 89 percent, and the Postal Service now says it will not reach 95 percent for two or three years. The new target for FY 2022 is 91 percent.
The weekly performance scores are being submitted as evidence in Pennsylvania v. DeJoy. The most recent report is here. For more performance data, check out our dashboard.
The Year in Review
How the pandemic could lead to a big USPS price hike

Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Winter 2021 Newsletter

The 2020 Mail Delays: Stats & Charts

Back to the Future: The USPS, PRC and Mailers revisit the meaning of PAEA

The Postal Service wants to slow down the mail, Congress says not so fast

“Save the Post Office” launches new Service Performance Dashboard

This week marks the 51st anniversary of the largest wildcat strike in U.S. labor history: The Great Postal Strike of 1970

What the USPS 10-year plan may have to say about future rate increases

Spring 2021 CPWU Newsletter

New dashboard on the PRC Advisory Opinion on the change in service standards

Mapping out the changes in USPS service standards

A talk with the founder of the “Save the Post Office” website

How the postal reform bill may help the Postal Service slow down the mail

Is ending air mail unfair? Testimony for the PRC’s Advisory Opinion on Changing Service Standards

Postal advocate testifies against reducing USPS service standards

Postal historian asks the PRC to return the Postal Service to a mission of service

Why the USPS proposal to reduce service standards will cause “undue discrimination”

Reply to the USPS: How the new service standards will cause geographic discrimination

Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Summer Newsletter

The 2020 USPS Household Diary Study is out

A tour of the new USPS package sorting machine

Communities and Postal Workers United: Fall 2021 Newsletter

New book examines the attack on the people’s post office and the fight to defend it

Rachel Maddow on the potential demise of DeJoy

Postlandia’s 2022 Calendar of Post Offices and Places

“The Great Postal Heist” to be released on Jan. 25, 2022

The Year in Review
How the pandemic could lead to a big USPS price hike

Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Winter 2021 Newsletter

The 2020 Mail Delays: Stats & Charts

Back to the Future: The USPS, PRC and Mailers revisit the meaning of PAEA

The Postal Service wants to slow down the mail, Congress says not so fast

“Save the Post Office” launches new Service Performance Dashboard

This week marks the 51st anniversary of the largest wildcat strike in U.S. labor history: The Great Postal Strike of 1970

What the USPS 10-year plan may have to say about future rate increases

Spring 2021 CPWU Newsletter

New dashboard on the PRC Advisory Opinion on the change in service standards

Mapping out the changes in USPS service standards

A talk with the founder of the “Save the Post Office” website

How the postal reform bill may help the Postal Service slow down the mail

Is ending air mail unfair? Testimony for the PRC’s Advisory Opinion on Changing Service Standards

Postal advocate testifies against reducing USPS service standards

Postal historian asks the PRC to return the Postal Service to a mission of service

Why the USPS proposal to reduce service standards will cause “undue discrimination”

Reply to the USPS: How the new service standards will cause geographic discrimination

Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Summer Newsletter

The 2020 USPS Household Diary Study is out

A tour of the new USPS package sorting machine

Communities and Postal Workers United: Fall 2021 Newsletter

New book examines the attack on the people’s post office and the fight to defend it

Rachel Maddow on the potential demise of DeJoy

Postlandia’s 2022 Calendar of Post Offices and Places

“The Great Postal Heist” to be released on Jan. 25, 2022

A New Agenda for Postal Reform

Posts by a postmaster: Articles by Mark Jamison
