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The 2020 Mail Delays: Stats & Charts

SteveFebruary 14, 2021Blog, Featured, Slideshow

The PRC has been scrutinizing on-time service performance and requesting data about the scope and causes of mail delays

DeJoy’s 57 Varieties of Cost Cutting: What’s in the new OIG report—and what’s not?

SteveOctober 26, 2020Blog, Featured, Slideshow

The Postal Service did not give Congress a complete picture of the Work Hour Reduction plan. Did it also fail to provide the OIG with some crucial details?

A New Agenda for Postal Reform

SteveOctober 18, 2020Blog, Featured, Slideshow

Hopefully a new administration will soon take office in Washington. How might it envision the future of the Postal Service?

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

SteveOctober 1, 2020Blog, Featured, Slideshow, Story

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

The Seven-Percent Solution: The Not-So-Secret Plan to Downsize the Postal Service

SteveSeptember 14, 2020Blog, Featured, Slideshow

Has the Postal Service embarked on a plan to reduce labor costs by about 7 percent — about 67 million workhours, or the equivalent of about 33,000 jobs? Sure looks like it.

DeJoy’s Fix for the Post Office: The Wrong Time, the Wrong Plan, the Wrong Man

SteveAugust 29, 2020Blog, Featured, Jamison Articles, Slideshow

Mr. DeJoy must go and the current Board of Governors who oversaw these changes must stand down.

Preserve the People’s Post Office: Let Us Do Meaningful Postal Reform

SteveAugust 26, 2020Blog, Featured, Jamison Articles

Mark Jamison It is said the Postal Service is mired in debt, that it is unsustainable, a burden to the American people. This is the position of the current postmaster general, supported by the board of governors who hired him and by a treasury secretary who seems to be the chief architect of the current assault on a cherished national … Read More

Save the Postal Service

SteveApril 25, 2020Blog, Featured, Slideshow

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

How to Privatize the Post Office: Piece by piece, step by step

SteveJune 24, 2018Featured, Slideshow, Story

Think it would take an act of Congress to privatize the postal system? They’ve been privatizing the post office for four decades, piece by piece, step by step. It’s called “piecemeal privatization,” and it works like this.