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Postal bills in the current session of Congress: Is anything going anywhere?

SteveJune 21, 2018Slideshow, Story

For the past ten years, Congress has been unable to act on postal reform.  Today that goal looks further away than ever.

Why the Postal Service Is Not Subsidizing Package Delivery

SteveJune 19, 2018Blog, Slideshow

Despite assertions by President Trump that the Postal Service is charging too little for package delivery, the evidence shows that package delivery is not subsidized and, in fact, that package revenue is playing a key role in shoring up shaky USPS finances.

USPS releases 2017 Household Diary Study, finds “use of post offices continues to dominate the mail service industry”

SteveJune 12, 2018Blog, Slideshow

“In spite of a declining frequency of visits over the past several years, the use of post offices for mailing services continues to dominate the mail service industry.”

Bernie Sanders Has a Commonsense Plan to Save the Postal Service

SteveJune 7, 2018Blog, Slideshow

The senator is calling on the Trump administration to strengthen the agency, not sell it off.

Court turns back UPS bid to drive up USPS parcel prices

SteveMay 29, 2018Slideshow, Story

The winners are the small businesses that won’t pay higher shipping rates and consumers who shop online.

Historic Post Office in Topeka, KS reportedly in final stages of sale

SteveMay 21, 2018Blog, Slideshow

The historic Brown v. Board of Education was tried in the summer of 1951 in the third-floor courtroom of the building.

What’s Amazon worth to the Post Office? It could be a cool billion

SteveMay 21, 2018Slideshow, Story

As the following back-of-the-envelope analysis will suggest, the Postal Service could be making as much as a billion dollars a year off the Amazon deal.

Asking the wrong questions: Reflections on Amazon, the Post Office, and the Greater Good

SteveMay 13, 2018Slideshow, Story

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.” — Thomas Pynchon

Thumb on the scale: The OIG reports on the Postal Service’s share of CSRS Pension Responsibility

SteveMay 10, 2018Slideshow, Story

The OPM is using a method to calculate the postal portion of assets within the CSRS that is extremely unfavorable and unfair to the Postal Service

Revising the POM: The Postal Service takes another step toward cluster boxes

SteveApril 29, 2018Slideshow, Story

According to the new version of the POM, centralized delivery is now “the preferred mode of delivery for all new residential and commercial developments.”

Spreading the fake news: How the media made a meme of Trump’s phony tweets about Amazon and the Post Office

SteveApril 24, 2018Slideshow, Story

Almost without exception news articles cite Citigroup’s claim that the Postal Service is undercharging Amazon as if it were true.  Too bad it’s not.

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STAGES IN DISCONTINUANCE PROCESS
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2   Notice (if appropriate) to Headquarters of suspension Organizations Notify               
3   Notice (if appropriate) to customers/district personnel of suspension               
4   Highway map with community highlighted               
5   Inspection Service/local law enforcement vandalism reports               
6   Form 4920, Post Office Fact Sheet            
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14   District notification to Government Affairs             
15   Instructions to postmaster/OIC to post proposal              
16   Invitation for comments exhibit              
17   Proposal exhibit                
18   Comment form exhibit           
19   Instructions for postmaster/OIC to remove proposal             
20  Postal Service response letters to returned customer questionnaires              
21   Analysis of questionnaires              
22   Community meeting analysis            
23   Round-date stamped proposals and invitations for comments from affected offices         
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“He didn’t strike me as a serious candidate,” Williams told a Congressional hearing. “He does have the experience of the logistics support from working with the Postal Service and others. That’s a fairly narrow part. It was essentially moving our empty equipment back to places where it could be filled. So that’s a kind of experience, but it was fairly compartmentalized.”