All four postal service worker unions (the National Association of Letter Carriers, the American Postal Workers Union, the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association, and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union) plan to keep up their fight against the Trump administration’s push to privatize the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). On Columbus Day, October 8, postal workers […]
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Can Lockers Help the Postal Service Get Hip?
With a little fine-tuning, USPS could revamp its self-service parcel locker system to compete with Amazon and win over millennials.
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Trump Moves to Gut the Post Office
His war on Amazon expands to include the right wing’s campaign to abolish America’s oldest—and still successful—public service.
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President Trump Is Wrong: The Postal Service Is an American Treasure
The president’s attacks ignore the incredible scope of the agency’s work—and the hundreds of thousands of good jobs it provides.
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Could Postal Banking Be the Next Big Thing?
It would free the poor from the exploitation of payday lenders, shore up the Postal Service, and not cost taxpayers a dime.
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Will Amazon Swallow the Postal Service?
They’re exploring Sunday delivery, but only for packages sent by the online shopping behemoth. If they’re going to be fair, they have to open it up to other retailers.
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Romney Tells Inane Lie About Post Office, No One Notices
If that’s what you need to do to make your case, maybe your case isn’t so strong.
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Why Conservatives Ought to Love the Postal Service.
Bear with me here, this isn’t really about Mitt Romney. But I was recently reading his book No Apology: The Case For American Greatness (summary: America is great), and at one point, while describing the virtues of the free market and the pathologies of government, Mitt says, “It has been my experience that almost always […]
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Bringing Back the Stamp Tax, or, Why oh Why Can’t We Have a Better Press Corps (The Fuzzy Math of the Washington Post Edition)
by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math In what was meant to be an “Oddly Enough” article on USPS’s proposed “forever stamps“, Washington Post reporter Christopher Lee unwittingly gives away the game [emphasis mine]: The Postal Service, which has a $69 billion annual budget, expects to finish this fiscal year about $2 billion in the red. […]