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The Mail is Not for Sale!
January 8, 2025
The fast and furious online reaction to The [Washington] Post’s Dec. 19 editorial underscores how strongly the people support and trust the U.S. Postal Service.
Clerk Division Fills Two Vacant NBA Positions
January 7, 2025
Recently, two National Business Agent (NBA) positions became vacant in the Clerk Division. Robert “Bob” Romanowski left his NBA job in the Philadelphia Region when he was promoted to the newly established Assistant Director “C”, Clerk Division...
A Checkered Past
October 31, 2006
Offering a range of “private investigative” services, the Pinkerton Detective Agency was founded in 1850 and at first specialized in train robberies: the protection of railroad property. By the late 1860s, however, Pinkerton agents were protecting...
Thousands of Postal Workers Protest Ill-Conceived USPS Plans
October 26, 2006
In a nationwide day of picketing Oct. 26, APWU locals across the country protested Postal Service policies that put the demands of corporate advertising mailers ahead of the needs of individual postal customers and small businesses.
The picketing...
APWU Locals Prepare for Nationwide Day of Picketing
October 25, 2006
Momentum has been building for the APWU nationwide day of picketing to be held Thursday, Oct. 26, at locations across the country.
Delegates at the 18th Biennial APWU Convention in Philadelphia adopted a resolution to conduct a day of picketing that...
OIG Report Criticizes Pasadena Consolidation
October 23, 2006
A report by the USPS Office of the Inspector General concluded that the cost savings projected by the Postal Service for the consolidation of a California mail processing facility “may be significantly overstated, and the service impacts are not...
Victims Remembered, Workers Honored On Fifth Anniversary of Anthrax Attacks
October 20, 2006
Two APWU members who died after being exposed to bacteria-laced mail were remembered during ceremonies Oct. 19 commemorating the fifth anniversary of the attacks. The memorial was held at a church near the Washington, DC, facility named in honor of...