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Community and Postal Workers United (CPWU) is encouraging people to speak out during the public comment period at the Postal Board of Governors’ meeting on November 10. Here’s the CPWU announcement. Postal Board of Governors – Public Meeting Thurs. Nov. 10, 8:30am ET Listen to public comment (after a short ... Read More

By Steve Hutkins The Postal Service has been publishing announcements about post office discontinuances in Postal Bulletin since 1880. The publication is the official record for post office changes. But not anymore. In the September 8, 2022, issue of the Bulletin (page 10), in the section where recent discontinuances are ... Read More

 The first public meeting about the upcoming changes to the USPS delivery network took place yesterday in Andover, Mass. The meeting was broadcast on Andover TV Public Channel, Comcast 8, Verizon Fios 47, as well as in HD on live streams and mobile app: andovertv.org/livestreams. The meeting was put ... Read More

This month the Postal Service will begin implementing a massive initiative to change how the mail is delivered. Instead of working out of the back of post offices, letter carriers will be relocated to large, centralized facilities called Sorting & Delivery Centers. The Postal Service has provided very few details ... Read More

Congress and the Biden administration have been very good to the Postal Service: $10 billion in emergency pandemic relief, nearly $50 billion to fix the problems caused by the retiree healthcare benefit mandate, and $3 billion for electric vehicles. You’d think everything would be good for a while and we ... Read More

The Summer 2022 newsletter from Community and Postal Workers United (CPUW) has articles about the “Dump DeJoy” campaign, the crisis of understaffing, and providing non-postal government services at local post offices,. Read the newsletter here ... Read More

Earlier this week the Postal Service shared a list with the Postal Regulatory Commission identifying 170 post offices that were “temporarily” suspended several years ago and that will soon be closed permanently. The list was submitted as part of the PRC’s Public Inquiry into what can be done to push ... Read More

Steve Hutkins In February the Postal Regulatory Commission opened a Public Inquiry docket to invite comments about the large backlog of long-standing, unresolved post office suspensions. Here are the comments I submitted today. (Comments were also submitted by the PRC’s Public Representative and the Postal Service.) Pursuant to Order No ... Read More

STEVE HUTKINS In the run-up to the election in November 2020, the iconic USPS blue boxes suddenly became controversial. It appeared that the Postal Service was removing a lot of collection boxes just when they would be needed most — to handle all the ballots being sent by mail due ... Read More

The spring 2022 newsletter from Community and Postal Workers United (CPWU) has articles about opposition to the Postal Service’s deal to purchase up to 148,000 mail delivery trucks from Oshkosh Defense, 90% of them powered by gasoline fueled combustion engines; the postal workers’ protest in Denver when PMG DeJoy visited; ... Read More

The Winter 2022 newsletter from Communities and Postal Workers United has articles about the effort to “Dump DeJoy,” letter carriers resisting delivery after dark, and a new type of post office being piloted in Canada. Read the newsletter here ... Read More

BY STEVE HUTKINS Last week the Postal Service published its service performance reports for the first quarter of fiscal year 2022 (Oct-Dec 2021). This is our first opportunity to see any details about how on-time delivery has been going since Oct. 1, 2021, when the USPS introduced lower service standards ... Read More

Here’s a map of the USPS locations that are serving as Fulfillment Centers for packing, labeling, and sorting the free Covid tests being sent out by the federal government. The list of sites comes from a Memorandum of Understanding between the USPS and National Postal Mail Handlers Union ... Read More

Will the U.S. Postal Service be a part of our future the way it’s been a part of our past? CBS Mornings explores the question, featuring interviews with residents of Alplaus, NY, which lost its post office 10 years ago, author Devin Leonard, and post office photographer Evan Kalish ... Read More

[Press Release from Cinema Libre Studios] It is broadly known that current Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has significant conflicts of interest due to his and his family’s investments in a number of companies closely tied to the U.S. Postal Service. Established by the U.S. Constitution, the once-venerated agency has been systematically dismantled ... Read More

Evan Kalish has photographed more than 10,000 post offices all across America. Back for its sixth year, the 2022 “Postlandia Calendar of Post Offices and Places” celebrates a dozen new photogenic and historic post offices from around the United States. This year’s selections include one-of-a-kind post offices in California, New ... Read More

On her show on Nov. 19, Rachel Maddow focused on President Biden’s changes to the USPS Board of Governors “that apparently are finally going to clear the way to getting rid of that guy,” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. She also talked with Illinois Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi about his hope that ... Read More

First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat, the new book by historian Christopher Shaw, is hot off the presses. Shaw’s examination of the essential role of the Post Office in American society should have a profound impact on shaping the postal narrative and the direction of ... Read More

The Fall 2021 newsletter from Communities and Postal Workers United has articles calling on the 21 Attorneys General who oppose slowing down the mail to file for an injunction; the APWU rally to “Dump DeJoy, Bounce Bloom” on Sept. 23; Chicago letter carriers stand against late start times and delivery ... Read More

BY TIM BOND As part of its Delivering for America plan, the Postal Service has promised to “procure and deploy more than 185 new package sorters.” This statement has remained somewhat vague in the messaging materials, but the Postal Service recently invited the media to the Seattle Processing & Distribution ... Read More