The Spring 2026 Newsletter from Community and Postal Workers United (CPWU) has articles on the Postmaster General’s testimony to Congress that the USPS is going broke, the postal unions’ response, Trump’s interference with voting by mail, the push to gain a $30 starting wage for letter carriers, and a case for funding basic human needs, not wars. Read the newsletter … Read More
Communities and Postal Workers United Winter Newsletter
The winter 2025-26 newsletter from Communities and Postal Workers United contains articles on the 250th anniversary of the Post Office, letter carriers protesting using postal property as a staging ground for ICE enforcement operations, global post offices facing financial crises, and using postal workers as census takers. Read the newsletter here.
Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Spring Newsletter
The Spring 2025 newsletter from Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) contains articles about PMG DeJoy’s resignation and the threat of a “hostile takeover” by DOGE; the hundreds of rallies that took place during the last week of March, a Wells Fargo report on privatizing the USPS, and the emerging coalition to fight the DOGE attacks. Read the newsletter here.
CPWU Winter 2025 Newsletter
The Winter 2025 newsletter from Communities and Postal Workers United has articles about the latest threat of postal privatization, privatization in foreign countries, workers battling the overhaul of the USPS, and the OIG report on the transportation optimization initiative to end after collections at post offices. Read the newsletter here.
CPWU Newsletter for Summer 2024
The Summer 2024 newsletter from Communities & Postal Workers United has articles about proposed legislation in Congress pushing back against DeJoy’s network transformation, the successful effort of postal unions to stop the consolidation of the Buffalo P&DC, and the continuing dangers to postal workers posed by excessive heat. Read the newsletter here, and visit CPWU at their website here.
CPWU Spring Newsletter
The Spring 2024 newsletter from Community and Postal Workers United has articles about DeJoy’s austerity plan to slash jobs and shrink processing centers and post offices; the surge of protests against the cuts; and the collections optimization initiative that ends evening collections at post offices. Read the newsletter here.
CPWU Winter 2024 Newsletter
The Winter 2024 newsletter from Community & Postal Workers United features articles on stifling public comment at meetings of the USPS Board of Governors; efforts to encourage President Biden to nominate former Representative Brenda Lawrence and policy expert Sarah Anderson to the USPS Board of Governors; opposition to the consolidation of the Cheyenne P&DC; a rally in Milwaukee protesting working … Read More
CPWU Fall 2023 Newsletter
The Fall 2023 newsletter from Community and Postal Workers United (CPWU) has articles about Imperial Beach, CA, where the community is protesting the removal of letter carriers to a S&DC out of concern that it will lead eventually to the post office closing; protests in Medford, OR, where some processing operations are be consolidated to Portland, which will cost 30 … Read More
Community and Postal Workers United Summer 2023 newsletter
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