The summer 2023 newsletter from Community and Postal Workers United Summer has articles about efforts to provide public feedback on the Delivering for America plan, urging President Biden to fill two seats on the USPS Board of Governors, the rally in Seattle amid contract negotiations, and solidarity with UPS Teamsters. Read the newsletter here.
CPWU Spring 2023 newsletter
The Spring 2023 newsletter from Community and Postal Workers United (CPWU) has articles about protests in Portland, OR, and Minneapolis, MN, about staff shortages, overwork, and mail delays; reports of residents not receiving their mail in mountain communities in Colorado; and Safe Passage routes for Illinois postal carriers who they say have been victims of violent crime. Read the newsletter … Read More
Winter 2023 CPWU Newsletter
The Winter 2023 newsletter from Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) has articles about letter carriers in Maine rallying to protest overwork, understaffing, robberies, delay of mail, and prioritizing Amazon parcels; the increasing number of letter carriers are being robbed on their mail routes; the victory on electric vehicles weakened by exclusion of union workers and public charging stations; and … Read More
CPWU’s Spring 2022 Newsletter
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; and President Biden’s recent nominations to the USPS Board of … Read More
Spring 2021 CPWU Newsletter
The Spring 2021 Newsletter from Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) has articles about Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s ten-year plan, ironically named “Delivering for America”; the “People’s Postal Agenda” discussed at the online conference put on by the Grand Alliance to Save the Public Postal Service; Charlotte postal workers protesting mistreatment and harassment; and Washington state’s postal workers pushing to … Read More
Fall 2020 Newsletter from Community & Postal Workers United
The Fall 2020 newsletter from Community & Postal Workers United contains articles on “Outcry Halts New Postmaster General’s Attacks on Service…for Now,” “Target the Postal Board of Governors ! Dump PMG DeJoy!,” “Postal Service workers quietly resist DeJoy’s changes,” and “Postmaster General eyes aggressive changes at Postal Service after election.” Read the newsletter here.
Community and Postal Workers United Summer 2020 Newsletter
The Community and Postal Workers United Summer 2020 Newsletter features articles about new Postmaster General and what we can expect from him, postal workers in Minneapolis organizing a display of solidarity with the Black freedom movement, and what you can do to help save our postal service. Â Read the newsletter here.
Communities and Postal Workers United Winter 2020 Newsletter
The Winter 2020 newsletter from Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) has articles about a rally against the Consolidated Casing test program being run by the USPS to speed up mail carriers and eliminate routes; a community’s efforts to continue mail service to individual mailboxes rather than cluster boxes; problems with the Postal Service’s claims to fight climate change; and the potential … Read More
Community and Postal Workers United Newsletter for Fall 2019
The Fall 2019 newsletter from Community and Postal Workers United (CPWU) contains articles about a resolution passed by the Oregon State Association of Letter Carriers supporting the Green New Deal; resistance to the Postal Service’s “Consolidated Casing Initiative”; efforts by Alabama home builders to preserve home mail delivery and resist cluster mailbox units in new residential and commercial developments; and … Read More
Community and Postal Workers United Summer 2019 newsletter
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. Â Read the newsletter here.