What Are They Trying to Hide?

The Postal Service’s second quarter performance scores are in – but you wouldn’t know it from looking at their website. Instead of posting a press release bragging about on-time delivery scores – as management typically does – the results are tucked...

USPS Second Quarter Operating Profit Totals $313 Million

The Postal Service’s operating profit for the second quarter of fiscal year 2015 totaled $313 million, putting the surplus for the first half of the year above $1.3 billion – more than all of last year’s operating profit. “These steadily increasing...

Northwest Lawmakers Speak Out Against Consolidations

Oregon’s congressional delegation sent a letter to Postmaster General Megan Brennan, requesting a meeting, “as soon as possible,” to discuss consolidation plans and the future of mail delivery standards.   Seattle’s City Council and its mayor sent...

Fight Back Against Closures, Consolidations

(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) APWU members across the country are fighting efforts by USPS management to close or consolidate 82 mail processing facilities this year. Locals have...

When Complement Managers Make Contact, Union Calls Foul

(This article first appeared in the May-June 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) As this issue goes to press, there is no sign that management is stopping or postponing the Network Rationalization Plan and the quest to systemically...

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