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Postal Service Eliminates Deepest Presort Discounts for Package Consolidators

November 19, 2024
The Postal Service eliminated the deepest presort discounts used by package consolidators, returning work to the USPS and increasing revenue.

Retirees Can Save on Medicare with the APWU High Option

November 18, 2024
Health Plan Director Sarah Jane Rodriguez explains how retirees can save on Medicare with the APWU Health Plan High Option.

Protests Against Job, Service Cuts Continue

January 1, 2018
Members of the Des Moines Area Local and the  Des Moines BMC Local picket in front of the downtown P&DC. (This article first appeared in the January-February 2018 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine)  APWU members from coast-to-coast...

Happy Holidays!

December 22, 2017

Unpopular Tax Bill Passes

December 22, 2017
On Wednesday Dec. 20, Congress voted to pass a tax bill designed to reward the super wealthy and major corporations with more money. Despite being an unpopular bill opposed by hard-working families across the country, it passed without any...

Clerk Craft Successfully Stops “End of Day” Button

December 12, 2017
In an award issued December 8, 2017, Das found that the “End of Day” button – a function the Postal Service added into the Retail System Software (RSS) point-of-sale system allowing postmasters to enter and exit the system without fully closing out...

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