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PRC Advisory Opinion on USPS Service Standard Changes, Warns of ‘Significant Negative Impact’

February 4, 2025
In October 2024, the United States Postal Service announced proposed changes to how it collects and distributes outgoing mail that would lengthen the delivery service standards for much of the country’s First Class Mail. Before implementing the...

Maintenance Part-Time Regular Payout Update (February 2025)

February 3, 2025
Maintenance Director Idowu Balogun provides an update on the Maintenance PTR Settlement Payout as of February 2025.

Secret Trade Deal Would Dismantle Our Postal Service

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) A trade deal the U.S. is negotiating behind closed doors with 50 other countries would dismantle our public Postal Service as we know it....

After Strike, German Postal Workers Win Contract

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) German postal workers on strike in North Rhine-Westphalia. After a four-week strike, German postal workers have secured a contract. Workers...

‘I Support Postal Banking!’

September 1, 2015
Activists protest payday lendors in Columbia, MO. A May 2015 white paper by the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) concludes that the Postal Service can act now to expand and enhance existing financial services, such as money orders,...

A Grand Alliance Goes to Congress

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) A delegation of representatives from A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service took their concerns about postal issues to Capitol Hill...

Momentum Demands Movement

September 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the September-October 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.) Momentum is defined as “mass in motion,” or “mass multiplied by velocity.” In the political arena, momentum is critical to getting legislation...

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