Stories

Do It Now: A Timeline of the Postal Service’s Work Hour Reduction Plan

SteveOctober 1, 2020Blog, Slideshow, Story

The timeline shows how the plan was shared inside the Postal Service while it was kept secret from everyone else.

Voting by mail and the next election meltdown

SteveSeptember 30, 2020Slideshow, Story

With control of the House and Senate at stake in next week’s midterms, any election that is close is likely to be contested. Arcane postal matters, like USPS postmark policies and service standards, could take center stage in a bitter fight to the finish.

Historic New Deal Post Office in Roseville, CA may be torn down by hotel developers

SteveOctober 4, 2019Slideshow, Story

The city purchased the property nine years ago to revitalize the downtown district. Now developers want to tear down the current building, which was built in 1935, and construct a new six-story luxury hotel

New book shows & tells the story of Wisconsin’s New Deal murals

SteveSeptember 21, 2019Story

During the 1930s and 40s, under the New Deal, the United States Government commissioned over 1,100 murals for the embellishment of post offices nationwide. Wisconsin received 35 of these murals. A new book, Wisconsin Post Office Murals, by David W. Gates Jr., shows and tells the elusive and often overlooked story of their existence. The book follows on Gates’ earlier guidebook … Read More

DC Circuit grants postal watchdog’s challenge to PRC’s approval of rate hike on Forever stamps

SteveSeptember 13, 2019Slideshow, Story

“Although the five-cent stamp price hike may have gone unnoticed by many, the American Revolution was fomented in part by ordinary people who objected to taxation through stamps.”

Community and Postal Workers United Summer 2019 newsletter

SteveAugust 5, 2019Story

The Community and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Summer 2019 newsletter has articles about the successful effort to save the Seattle Central District Post Office, a rally tisane the West Linn, OR Post Office, and the fight against the Postal Service’s shift to cluster boxes. Read the newsletter here.

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Do It Now: A Timeline of the Postal Service’s Work Hour Reduction Plan

Voting by mail and the next election meltdown

Historic New Deal Post Office in Roseville, CA may be torn down by hotel developers

New book shows & tells the story of Wisconsin’s New Deal murals

DC Circuit grants postal watchdog’s challenge to PRC’s approval of rate hike on Forever stamps

Community and Postal Workers United Summer 2019 newsletter

Renowned architect César Pelli dies at 92; one of his first buildings was a post office

DC Circuit to hear oral arguments in watchdog’s appeal of PRC approval of 5-cent increase on Forever stamps

In bid to drive up postal rates, UPS takes the PRC to the Supreme Court

Postal watchdog appeals PRC decision approving five-cent increase in Forever stamps