Friday, August 12

Postal Service Job Cut Plan 'Tough' to Do

"It would make the federal government the largest contract breaker in the country."
San Francisco Chronicle

Mailhandlers: “Has Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker been named the new PMG?”

Mailhandlers Union via postalnews blog

NAPS “Deeply Apprehensive” About USPS Legislative Proposals

NAPS Legislative and Regulatory Update

NAPUS: PMG’s plan “recklessly endangers” health and security of all postal workers

postalnews blog

Is the Postal Service's Proposal Constitutional?

Courier, Express, and Postal Observer

Did the postal service bargain in good faith?

postalnews blog

The Big Lie about postal ‘bankruptcy’

National Association of Letter Carriers

USPS statements and “white papers” on proposed layoffs and reductions to employee/retiree benefits

postalnews blog

Laying off postal workers won't be cheap

Courier, Express, and Postal Observer

Saving the great American post office

The federal government subsidizes oil companies- why not the USPS?
Philadelphia Inquirer

APWU: USPS seeks to end layoff protection, take postal workers out of federal health and retirement programs

APWU News
Washington Post: USPS wants to layoff up to 120,000 employees by 2015 -

Video: Rights of U.S. postal workers under attack

MSNBC

Postal Service Recognizes Political Reality

Courier, Express, and Postal Observer
also: Postal Service Cutting 228,000 Career Jobs -

Wednesday, August 10

How to Lie With Charts

Take a close look at the charts the USPS uses to justify closing post offices...
Save the Post Office

OIG says USPS falsified Pay for Performance scores to save money

postalnews blog

The Future of the Postal Service: An Analysis

Mailing Systems Technology

Postal Service Has Too Many Employees and Pays Them Too Much, Mailer Groups Say

Dead Tree Edition

Sources of the USPS deficit: Postal Service 23%, Congress 77%

postalnews blog

Mailbox Heat Affecting Mail Order Drugs

KSEE TV Fresno

Appeals Court rules against fired 204-B in discrimination case

Leagle.com

Congressional resistance to PO closing plan grows

Save the Post Office

USPS Ranks #3 on List of Biggest U.S. Job-Killing Companies

AOL Jobs

Tuesday, August 9

Another USPS worker expected to plead guilty to conspiracy in Detroit

Associated Press

Pennsylvania postal worker suffers chemical burns from soda-bottle bomb

Pocono Record

Workers, pols rally to save Staten Island's postal service

Staten Island Advance

In the Sorting Office: another view of postal privatization in Europe

London Review of Books

Smugglers Turning to Snail Mail to Ship Drugs

NBC Miami

Saved by the mail carrier

KKCO TV Grand Junction CO

US post offices spreading over time, 1700 to 1900

postalnews blog

Postcom podcast: The government’s use of mail

Postcom via postalnews blog

PRC Docket No. N2011-1 and the Future of the Post Office

Save the Post Office

Arbitration ahead for Postal Service, rural letter carriers union

Federal Times

Friday, August 5

Sen. Tom Carper Statement on Most Recent USPS Financial Losses

postalnews blog

Darrell Issa Statement on Postal Service Losses

postalnews blog

Postal governor resigns amid real estate scandal

Federal Times

PMG Says PO Discontinuance Study Will be Ongoing

NAPUS

USPS loses $3.1 billion in third quarter

Press release

Camas woman moves to Vancouver, but mail takes a side trip

The Oregonian

"They want to close what?!"

Cleveland Daily Banner

Massachusetts postal worker crashes into tractor trailer

New England Cable News via postalnews blog

Frederick plant's closing angers union leader

Frederick MD News-Post

GOP Congressman calls on PMG to halt Oshkosh consolidation

postalnews blog

Tuesday, August 2

Robber Barons Plunder the Post Offic\

Save the Post Office

Back to Code Blue

NAPS Leg/Reg Update

FMLA requests to be handled by shared services center

postalnews blog

The debt ceiling and letter carriers

NALC via postalnews blog

Feds @ Work: Interview with Chuck McGann, USPS chief information security officer

AOL Government

USPS backs down on Sioux City FOIA request

KCAU-TV Sioux City

Hill Staff May Not Miss Post Offices

Roll Call

Audit finds Green Bay mail center insufficient for absorbing Oshkosh operation

... but USPS plans to go ahead with move anyway...
Oshkosh Northwestern

Destroying unions won’t fix the Postal Service

Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post by APWU President Cliff Guffey