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Recent Polling Shows Registered Voters Overwhelmingly Favor Public Postal Service, Expanding Services

May 8, 2025
In February, the APWU commissioned a national survey to better understand the public’s sentiment on the public Postal Service and attempts at privatization. Here are the key takeaways 

PRESS RELEASE: Americans Overwhelmingly Oppose Privatizing the U.S. Postal Service, Finds New Survey from Democratic and Republican Polling firms

May 8, 2025
WASHINGTON – New polling shows that postal customers strongly believe that proposals to privatize the United States Postal Service should be marked “Return to Sender.”  In a national survey of 1,402 registered voters, those surveyed oppose postal...

2010 MVS Jobs MOU Arbitration Decision

September 18, 2023
The Motor Vehicle craft has received National level Arbitrator Brent’s ruling in case Q10C-4Q-C 4256800, interpreting the language from the MVS Jobs Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). In this MOU, the parties agreed to return a minimum of 600 Postal...

2023 Bulk Mail Centers (BMC) Conference, Kansas

September 18, 2023
The Bulk Mail Center (BMC) Conference convened on Monday, April 17, 2023, at the Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa in Riverside, MO. The conference was chaired by Terry B. Martinez, BMC Coordinator, and hosted by Michelle Fitzpatrick, Kansas Kaw Valley...

Surviving the USPS “Alphabet Soup” with the Help of RI-399

September 18, 2023
The number of changes and additions to the USPS dictionary of acronyms can be overwhelming, such as S&DC, RPDC, LPC, and Transfer Hubs, to name a few. This is nothing new and we have survived these types of reorganizational movements in the past...

Fighting for the Issues that Matter: Social Security Fairness, Citizen Power, and More!

September 18, 2023
Your Legislative Department continues to press forward on the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82/S. 597). The Social Security Fairness Act would repeal both the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP). These...

Making Sense of Change in the Postal Service

September 18, 2023
It is no secret that the Postal Service is making changes. One constant that I have experienced throughout my career with the USPS is that the Postal Service evolves and changes. I am a fourth-generation postal employee. When I was a young boy in...

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