02/07/2021 · AP News
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service’s stretch of challenges didn’t end with the November general election and tens of millions of mail-in votes. The pandemic-depleted workforce fell further into a hole during the holiday rush, leadin...
02/06/2021 · Washington Post
The nation’s mail service is slower and more erratic than it’s been in generations, via the confluenc...
11/17/2020 · Here & Now, WBUR
U.S. Postal Service workers are holding a "National Day of Action" on Tuesday in cities throughout the country and calling for more support from Congress. The service experienced one of its greatest challenges this year: shepherding millions of pres...
08/10/2020 · Yahoo! Finance
ScanMyPhotos began in 1990 and quickly developed a close relationship with its local post office in Irvine, Calif. “They are the reason we have this company,” co-founder Mitch Goldstone said an interview with Yahoo Finance’s. The company, wh...
08/06/2020 · The New Republic
Mail carriers tell the story of how the destruction of the U.S. Postal Service would mean the end of a connected country.
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...