07/29/2020 · NPR
On his first day on the job last month, new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy addressed the nearly half-million U.S. Postal Service career employees in a video message. He talked of a "trajectory for success" and said that "we will focus on creating a...
07/29/2020 · The New Yorker
By Steve Coll. The American system for organizing elections is a crazy quilt of decentralization. More than eight thousand counties and towns administer voting. There is something admirably earnest and grassroots about the network of town clerks and ...
07/14/2020 · Washington Post
Analysts say the memos recast the USPS as a business rather than a government service The new head of the U.S. Postal Service established major operational changes Monday that could slow down mail delivery, warning employees the agency would not surv...
07/09/2020 · The American Prospect
For 50 years, multibillionaire Charles Koch has nudged Washington toward his dream of privatizing the United States Postal Service. A new study from True North Research shows how the coronavirus crisis may present an opportunity for Koch to finish th...
05/31/2020 · News & Record
On Jan. 6, a coalition of 90 organizations, A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service (AGA), presented to Brennan more than 400,000 signatures on a petition demanding that the Postal Board of Governors appoint a postmaster general “who is ...
05/23/2020 · ABC7 Chicago
The unions representing these essential workers now want to make it official, to be recognized as true first responders to give them access to what they need.
05/16/2020 · Louisville Courier Journal
Randy Bradley, Opinion contributor I’m a postal employee and union leader who has worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 21 years. Today, I take pride in serving on the front lines of this unprecedented national crisis. Despite risks to our own hea...
04/24/2020 · Washington Post
The president said the postal agency should quadruple its package delivery prices, otherwise he would block congressionally approved funding
04/24/2020 · Politico
President Donald Trump said Friday that he would not approve any bailout for the U.S. Postal Service unless it dramatically increases its prices. The Postal Service, which Trump called "a joke," has warned of its serious financial distress for years...
04/23/2020 · Washington Post
President Trump has railed for years against what he sees as mismanagement of the agency, which he argues has been exploited by sites such as Amazon
04/20/2020 · The Kansas City Star
If Jack Bainbridge couldn’t get his prescriptions through the mail, the 70-year-old Army veteran would have to make a 90-mile round trip to the VA Medical Center in Kansas City.
04/17/2020 · Yahoo
The future of the U.S. Postal Service is up in the air, as President Donald Trump continues to starve the institution of financial assistance. With Read more