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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...

Das 110 HCRs Noncompliance Award Issued

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In our continuing commitment to require postal management’s compliance with the August 2016 arbitration decision rendered by national arbitrator Shyam...

Negotiations with USPS and Private Sector

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) Negotiating new and successor collective bargaining agreements during this COVID-19 period has proved to be very challenging. The Support Services...

Mail Processing Equipment Arbitration

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The Maintenance National Officers arbitrated a section of Electronic Work Hours Estimated Program (eWHEP) on May 18-19, before a newly selected...

Postal Workers Weathered the Storm

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) The past 15 months has been challenging and stressful for postal workers. The COVID-19 pandemic spared no one, touching almost everyone in some way,...

Investing in Retail and the Customer Experience – Clerks Care

July 9, 2021
(This article first appeared in the July/August 2021 issue of the American Postal Worker magazine) In an effort to offer more postal products and services and increase revenue, the Clerk Division has held several meetings with the Postal Service...

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