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APWU President Mark Dimondstein's Opening Remarks for 2024 Contract Negotiations

June 25, 2024
Read President Dimondstein's strong remarks to lead off opening day of contract talks.  

Management Reducing Package Presort Discounts

June 14, 2024
The Postal Service is in the early stages of eliminating the deepest of several discounts where package consolidators sort to the Destination Delivery Units (DDUs) and five-digit presort.

Stand Up for Your Rights

The lyrics from the famous tune by Bob Marley sum it all up: Get up, Stand up, Stand up for your rights! We must adopt these words as our marching orders if we are going to save the USPS from postal managers, members of Congress and the Wall Street...

USPS Instructs Facilities Not to By-Pass Biohazard Detection Systems On Their AFCS

The APWU recently became aware that postal facilities with the Biohazard Detection System (BDS) on their Advanced Facer-Canceler Systems (AFCS) machines have made local decisions to by-pass the AFCS and utilize alternate canceling equipment (such as...

An Epidemic of Insanity?

Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.So the abuse, fraud, graft and corruption associated with USPS outsourcing makes management’s subcontracting decisions baffling.

Fighting to Protect Our Future

I would like to thank the members of the APWU for electing me the Executive Vice President of the American Postal Workers Union. It is truly an honor. Thank you to every member who cast a ballot.

Frequently Asked Questions

In the March-April edition, I addressed a number of questions asked by APWU retirees. Here are several more.

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