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Reconciliation Legislation Passes - Attacks on Postal Pensions DEFEATED
July 3, 2025
On July 3, Trump's tax-and-spending reconciliation bill (H.R. 1) passed by narrow margins in the House and Senate, giving $4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy paid for by the working class. While we successfully fought off the threats most...
Privatizers Lay Out Their Plan for Destroying Public Postal Service
June 30, 2025
On June 24, the House Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing titled, “The Route Forward for the U.S. Postal Service: A View from Stakeholders.”
e-Team Report, June 21, 2013
Biased Report Calls for USPS Privatization
Customers Notice Delays in Mail Delivery as P&DCs Close
Time to Capture Lost Opportunities
Capitol Hill Post Offices Are Slated for Closure, Rep. Issa Praises Announcement
The Postal Service and Privacy
USPS Reassessment Process Background
The Postal Service aggressively monitors limited duty and rehabilitation assignments, and in May, 2005 notified the APWU that the USPS would begin a reassessment of rehabilitation jobs and limited duty assignments. The third pilot of the “...
USPS Unleashes NRP (Phases 1 & 2)
In mid-December, the APWU was notified that Phase 1 of the National Reassessment Process had been implemented nationwide. The Postal Service estimates that 33,707 limited duty and rehabilitation employees will be reassessed under “NRP,” which was...
Aging Baby Boomers Expected to Almost Double Nation’s Senior Population
Two newly released reports from the U.S. Census Bureau project that the 65-and-older population in the United States will nearly double by 2050. That segment of the population is expected to jump from 43.1 million in 2012 to 83.7 million in 2050....
APWU Vows to Stop the Great Postal Giveaway
(This article appears in the January-February 2014 edition of The American Postal Worker.)
In a deal that has been in the works at least since March 2012, the USPS announced in November that it was launching a pilot program to place postal retail...