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Postal Service Employees Hold Rallies
Nationwide
"Postal
workers rallied Tuesday across the
country in hopes of drawing attention
to Democratic-backed legislation
supported by their labor unions that
they believe would best fix the U.S.
Postal Service's financial woes."
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Save the Post Office: Slideshows and
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4,000 more post
offices on the chopping block: Nothing
personal, it's just business
"The Postal
Service is in the process of closing
some 3,650 post offices as part of its
Retail Access Optimization Initiative
(RAOI). The first of them will close
by the end of the year, and it will
take a few more months to work through
the list. But the Postal Service is
already looking ahead, and word now
comes that 4,000 more post offices
will soon be on the chopping block." -
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Job cuts focus
of heated Postal Service debate
"In an
hours-long afternoon session, a House
subcommittee with jurisdiction over
USPS advanced a GOP-backed measure
that would allow the Postal Service to
end Saturday mail deliveries, sell
advertising space at post offices and
on mail trucks, and phase out most
residential to-the-door deliveries in
four years, requiring customers with
mailboxes at their front door to use
curbside boxes or a neighborhood
clusterbox. The bill also would
require postal workers to pay more
toward retirement and health-care
benefits and establish a financial
control board to overhaul postal
finances." -
APWU: Issa's 'Postal Destruction' Bill
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Board could take over Postal Service's
finances under new bill -
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President Obama
deficit plans back ending Saturday
mail
"President Obama
supports allowing the U.S. Postal
Service to stop delivering mail on
Saturdays and to start selling items
other than stamps and shipping
supplies at post offices nationwide,
according to his deficit reduction
proposals released Monday. The White
House is also calling on Congress to
return $7 billion that USPS paid into
a federal retirement fund to the
delivery service to help pay for other
retirement and health-care costs.
Obama's plans also would allow the
Postal Service to raise stamp prices
beyond the rate of inflation to better
match the cost of delivery." -
PMG Statement -
Issa: "Not what taxpayers or the
Postal Service needs" -
Republicans Blast Plan -
NALC: Encouraged and Disappointed -
USPS would get $20 billion in cash
relief under Obama's plan
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List of Sites
Being Considered for Consolidation
(PDF)
The USPS has sent
an informational letter to the APWU
about plans to conduct Area Mail
Processing feasibility studies at
sites across the U.S. for possible
consolidation of operations. -
APWU Denounces Plans -
Video: USPS
Proposes Radical Changes -
USPS Could Close Centers, Cut Jobs
(35,000) -
USPS Press Release -
USPS: Our Future Network -
USPS: Information for Mailers -
Proposal might
slow deliveries, could result in
150,000 layoffs -
USPS Video: The New Reality (Beginning
next March) -
USPS to Announce Major Cutbacks -
New APWU/USPS Contract: What about
50-mile limit on excessing?
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Postal Service, White House Engaged in
'Intense Discussions'
"U.S. Postal
Service executives are having "intense
discussions" with the Obama
Administration about the agency's
finances, USPS's #2 man said in a
videotaped interview published today.
"We've also been in pretty close
discussions with them over the last
month," Deputy Postmaster General Ron
Stroman told MyPrintResource.com."
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VIDEO: Interview With Deputy
Postmaster Ron Stroman
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Postal Service financial rescue plan
in works at White House
"The White House
is planning to present a financial
rescue plan for the U.S. Postal
Service in the coming weeks as part of
a broader, $1.5 trillion deficit
reduction package, it said Tuesday. In
advance of those recommendations, the
Obama administration is asking
Congress to give the Postal Service a
90-day extension to pay mandatory
annual retirement payments totaling
about $5.5 billion. The delay should
allow lawmakers, the Postal Service
and the White House enough time "to
carefully work through the details of
a proposal," OPM Director John Berry
told senators Tuesday." -
Searching for Consensus on Postal
Reform -
Untangling financial knots at Postal
Service won't be easy -
Committee Weighs
Proposals to Save the USPS: Two Senate
Bills, USPS Proposals Conflict
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Postmaster
Donahoe to beg Congress for Postal
Service's life
"American
Postal Workers Union President Cliff
Guffey calls Donahoe's plans
"outrageous, illegal and despicable,"
in his prepared testimony. "The
attempt by the Postal Service to keep
what it gained from our bargain and to
unilaterally abrogate what the APWU
gained is in utter disregard for the
legal requirement to bargain with the
APWU in good faith." -
Facing default, Postal Service turns
to Congress
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Postal Service
Struggles to Stay Solvent, and
Relevant
News story featured at top of
Drudge Report: "Broke: Post Office
System May Shut Down Entirely This
Winter
... Unless Congress Takes Emergency
Action"
"The United States
Postal Service has long lived on the
financial edge, but it has never been
as close to the precipice as it is
today: the agency is so low on cash
that it will not be able to make a
$5.5 billion payment due this month
and may have to shut down entirely
this winter unless Congress takes
emergency action to stabilize its
finances." -
New York Times buys in to the postal
shell game -
Postal Service Will Be Front Page News
Tuesday -
PostalMag.com solution to USPS
relevancy, profitability issues: New
class of "Business Mail" to replace
Standard Mail, powered by Mail
Preference List (scroll down) -
Photo:
Discarded, unread Standard Mail at
apartment complex
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Key deadlines loom for USPS
"The U.S. Postal
Service, on the brink of bankruptcy,
is facing two key deadlines in the
coming weeks that could define its
solvency and future ability to deliver
the nation's mail. The Postal
Service's annual $5.5 billion payment
to prepay health care costs for future
retirees is due Sept. 30. And two
weeks later, an estimated $1.2 billion
bill for a federal workers'
compensation fund maintained by the
Labor Department is due." -
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