The five-month moratorium on closing post offices and processing plants was the big news of the week, but that's not all that happened in postal world. Here's a roundup of some of the week's news: Occupy Oregon’s post offices: Yesterday, seventeen Oregon communities protested the Postal Service’s plan to close rural post offices across the state. According to the Rural … Read More
Week in Review: What a mess
A total mess: The big news this week, of course, was the Postal Service’s request for an Advisory Opinion on its plan to “rationalize” the processing network by closing 252 processing plants. The Postal Service says the plan will save $2.1 billion a year. Most of that savings would be in labor costs. The materials submitted for the Advisory Opinion, … Read More
Week in Review: AMPs, 10-K, PRC, CBRE, VPO, GAO & OWS
It was another busy week in Postal World — post offices keep closing, plant consolidation plans keep rolling on, the GAO keeps coming up with studies, and the PRC struggles to keep up with the appeals and Advisory Opinion. Here are just some of the highlights: Hearing in Harlem: The New York Metro Area APWU announced that on Tuesday, Nov. 22, … Read More
The Week in Review: Rallies, briefs, complaints, letters, and road trips
Another week of post office closing news — rallies to protest the downsizing, briefs filed at the PRC, road trips to visit threatened post offices, complaints about the closing process, a letter from Ralph Nader to the Postmaster General asking for empathy, and more on the Village Post Office, a concept that just won't go away. Here’s a wrap-up of … Read More
A new call for a moratorium on closures, and more post offices may close, not on any list
Yesterday U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) wrote a letter to the Postmaster General urging him to declare a moratorium on closing post offices. It was the second such call for a moratorium from a high-ranking government official, following Iowa Governor Branstad's request in August. Yesterday also brought news of two post offices being studied for closure that do not … Read More