nbcsandiego.com: The Imperial Beach City Council unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday night opposing any changes — especially any closures — to the city’s only United States Post Office. Imperial Beach Mayor Paloma Aguirre said the USPS has transferred a number of employees to a postal location in Chula Vista’s Eastlake community. She’s also worried the IB Post Office’s lease has not been … Read More
Postal workers have the blues: Ulster locations targeted in cost-cutting consolidation
hudsonvalleyone.com: As the month of September draws near, Ulster County postal workers in the 125 postal area are expressing fear and trepidation in the face of organizational changes slated to affect the operation of county post offices, part of a bold USPS nationwide reorganization and consolidation plan to cut costs. The 125 refers to all the post offices in southeast … Read More
DeJoy’s steps for more postal cuts draw flak
peoplesworld.org: The latest steps by Trump-named Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to cut Postal Service costs by cutting service have drawn bipartisan flak from Capitol Hill and prior protests from USPS workers from Medford, Ore., to Newburgh, N.Y. And from the Postal Rate Commission, too. DeJoy told the regulators last month his cuts are—in so many words—none of their business and … Read More
DeJoy’s 10-Year Plan Could Gut USPS. He Doesn’t Want You to Know the Details.
The Trump-appointed postmaster general behaves as if the public isn’t entitled to transparency at a public institution. The public learned last fall of one particularly controversial element of United States Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year plan for the U.S. Postal Service that would be rolling out soon. Essentially, the function of sorting and delivering mail would be consolidated into regional centers, … Read More
Chula Vista eyed as location for new USPS sorting and delivery center
San Diego Union Tribune: The United States Postal Service is in the midst of a massive, 10-year effort to modernize its delivery network nationwide. Changes under the plan will affect two facilities in South County. Chula Vista’s main post office has been selected as a location for a new sorting and delivery center, and Imperial Beach will have to relocate … Read More
USPS Network Plan Includes Insourcing of Linehaul Work
multichannelmerchant.com: A U.S. Postal Service plan to insource all line hauling of mail and parcels between hubs and local delivery units, which had been handled by contractors, will be completely phased in by 2025, according to a source with knowledge of meetings with USPS officials. As part of the 10-year Delivering for America network overhaul plan, begun in 2021, contractors … Read More
USPS faces bipartisan pushback as it ramps up consolidation efforts
Government Executive: The U.S. Postal Service is facing intensifying pressure as it prepares to significantly scale up its efforts to consolidate mail sorting into fewer facilities, with lawmakers in both parties and employees warning of the unintended consequences of the plan. A Republican lawmaker, Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., recently questioned the consolidation plan’s impact on his district, saying it lacked … Read More
Union plea: ‘save our local post offices’
After Postmaster General Louis DeJoy revealed his 10-year-plan, “Delivering for America” in 2021, many labor unions, locals and government officials have been fighting back. They fear for the future of the postal service. At a recent S&DC Town Hall meeting at Teamster’s Hall in Rock Tavern, many locals, government officials, American Postal Workers Union (APWU) members, National Association of Letter … Read More
Topeka will be a leader on a new US Postal Service model. Not everyone is happy about it
Topeka and northeast Kansas are at the forefront of a national change to how mail is delivered — and not everyone is thrilled by the development. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s attempt to modernize the postal service amid a rise of private sector competition has led to the creation of a new model for mail delivery, one that is designed to court large-scale … Read More
Mid Hudson Letter carriers upset over shifts in post office delivery
Mid Hudson News: ROCK TAVERN – Postal workers gathered Friday at the Teamster’s Local 445 hall to discuss the future transfer of clerks and letter carriers to the Mid-Hudson Sorting and Delivery Center at the Stewart Airport Industrial Park in the Town of Newburgh. Clerks and letter carriers from 17 towns are slated for transfer, but critics of the … Read More
USPS mum on plan to merge rural mail delivery hubs in Snohomish County
Heraldnet: EVERETT, WA — Postal workers in Snohomish, Granite Falls and Marysville say they’ve been told their post offices will soon no longer serve as delivery hubs and will only offer retail services. Mail distribution would be run out of Everett, according to a source within the U.S. Postal Service’s Seattle District Regional Post Office. The postal worker, who wished … Read More
DeJoy says USPS regulator’s network consolidation probe puts financial targets in ‘jeopardy’
Federal News Network: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is telling lawmakers that the Postal Service, facing larger financial losses than expected this year, can still achieve its long-term financial goals — if its regulator and Congress don’t interfere with plans to overhaul its delivery network. “We need to move, and we can get back on track with this. I see where … Read More
Don’t Expect to Charge Your Electric Vehicle at the Stations USPS Plans to Build
Government Executive: There are too many hurdles to allow the public to use the U.S. Postal Service’s forthcoming charging stations to juice up their own electric vehicles, according to the agency and a federal watchdog, even as the agency plans to add the capacity to tens of thousands of its facilities. USPS should, however, create plans to allow its own … Read More
GAO: Electric Vehicle Infrastructure: USPS Should Plan for Potential Workplace Charging
GAO: The United States Postal Service’s (USPS) facilities, such as post offices, could potentially provide the public and postal employees with electric vehicle chargers. For example, publicly-accessible chargers could serve community members without a charger at their home. Additionally, five of the 13 stakeholders GAO interviewed said employees would most benefit from chargers at USPS facilities, given the time available … Read More
Beacon Post Office Clerks Given Notice To Find New Locations
Little Beacon Blog: According to a clerk who works at the Beacon Post Office, the clerks (who work behind the front desk at the post office) were given notice about one week ago that they needed to find new jobs within 100 miles. The clerk said that if they did not want to leave Beacon, they could be “pulled” and … Read More
The Mission to Save Hudson Valley Post Offices
WRRV: Last month, 15 Hudson Valley post offices, including the beloved and historic location in Beacon, NY, were included in a plan that would move mail sorting to a central “Sorting and Delivery Center” (S&DC) in Newburgh, NY. The decision, meant to begin in September 2023, would send all affected mail carriers to pick up their daily route in Newburgh, NY before … Read More
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