New York Times: Four weeks before President Trump signed an executive order seeking to restrict mail voting, he filed four nominations for vacancies on the Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service. All four were Republicans. Three have expressed doubts about who won the 2020 presidential election and the security of voting. The selections broke with a longstanding practice … Read More
Trump’s anti-mail voting order gets blocked again, this time by federal appeals court
Democracy Docket: The U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court order that blocks the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from executing the president’s March executive order attacking mail voting. The decision means President Donald Trump’s sweeping assault on mail voting won’t be carried out in 23 states and the District of Columbia. … Read More
Court rejects government request to lift injunction halting Trump’s election Executive Order and USPS rule
On Saturday the First Circuit affirmed Judge Indira Talwani’s injunction blocking implementation of key provisions of President Trump’s election executive order. The court concluded that the government had failed to make the “strong showing” required for the extraordinary remedy of a stay. At this point, the government can ask for the full First Circuit to review the case, or it … Read More
Increase in rejected ballots in California primary raise concerns about USPS postmarking changes
Associated Press: Nearly 150,000 California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected for the state’s June primary, a spike from recent elections even as the state attempts to make voting easier with the goal of boosting participation and counting every ballot. California has become notorious for its ponderously slow vote counts that can drag on for weeks and sometimes longer, largely the result of multiple … Read More
Rally to save the post office in West Park, NY
Daily Freeman: WEST PARK, N.Y. — Residents will rally outside their post office Friday, as the U.S. Postal Services shuts the doors to the West Park Post Office for the last time, leaving 170 families in the lurch. Residents of Esopus hamlet were informed by mail on June 23 that the post office would close “temporarily,” at the end of … Read More
Coalition urges Senate to reject nominations to USPS Board
The Save the Post Office Coalition, a member organization with over 300 national and state organizations including many retired and active postal workers, had written to the Senate urging member to vote NO and reject the nominations of Jeffrey Brodsky and William Gallo to serve on the United States Postal Service Board of Governors. (The Coalition is not affiliated with … Read More
Trump appeals a ruling that blocks parts of his order to restrict voting by mail
NPR: An executive order by President Trump that seeks to enlist the U.S. Postal Service to limit voting by mail has hit legal hurdles. On June 25, a Boston-based judge blocked key parts of the order that, at least so far, has not directly affected mail-in voting for this year’s midterm primary elections. That ruling by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, a nominee … Read More
Plan to close West Park, NY, Post Office stuns hamlet’s residents
Daily Freeman: Community members and area officials are fighting back against a plan by the U.S. Postal Service to shutter the West Park (NY) Post Office and force its customers to instead travel to Highland to collect their mail. The roughly 170 post office box holders were informed via letters Monday, June 23, that after serving the small Esopus hamlet … Read More
The Postal Service gets in deep on proposed changes to mail voting
The Postal Service is once again being embroiled in the national debate over voting by mail. In March the President issued an executive order on mail voting that represents an unprecedented federal intervention into the election system, with the Postal Service playing a key role. Earlier this week the Postal Service published a proposed rule in the Federal Register intended … Read More
CPWU Summer 2026 Newsletter
The Summer 2026 Newsletter from Communities and Postal Workers United has articles about a nationwide rally for “Next Generation Carriers”; a joint letter to Congress from the four postal unions; an OIG report on expanding access to government services through the postal network; a call to subsidize rural postal service. Read the newsletter.