September 21, 2011 – RAO Initiative Candidate Facility Status Update submitted to the Postal Regulatory Commission. The list of post offices no longer review are highlighted. Update: List Of Post Offices No Longer Under Review For Closure
75 House Members Call for New USPS Business Model, Not Post Office Closures in Bi-Partisan Letter to PRC Chairwoman Ruth Goldway Congressmen Gerry Connolly (D-VA) Don Young (R-AK), joined by 73 other bipartisan members of Congress, have written Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) Chairwoman Ruth Goldway to urge the PRC to reject thousands of Post Office […]
The U.S. Postal Service will hold a public meetings to discuss its proposal to make possible changes in the way postal services are provided of 59 post offices in Arkansas. Customers will have an opportunity to meet with a Postal Service representative to discuss alternatives.
Maryville Daily Forum: U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, whose 6th Congressional District includes Nodaway County, released a statement Monday acknowledging the need for the U.S. Postal Service to make fiscal reforms but urging that such changes preserve a high level of mail service in rural areas.
Appearing at a hearing before the Postal Regulatory Commission, an independent agency with oversight over the Postal Service, James Boldt, the national manager of customer service operations in the USPS Office of Delivery and Post Office Operations, answered a battery of questions from representatives of postal employees’ associations and the mailing community about the proposal […]
Gov. Branstad today released two letters he has sent to United States Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe regarding the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) plan to close rural post offices and processing centers in Iowa. Gov. Branstad has asked Postmaster General Donahoe to consider numerous options as they seek to overcome financial challenges.
NAPUS has received complaints from members of the Post Office Preservation Committee that some postal officials are in a hurry- up mode to schedule community meetings to discuss possible post office closings. In some areas, customers from more than one community are told to travel to another location where several community meetings are being held […]
The following is a combination of press releases from USPS announcing scheduled public meetings for proposed post office closings in Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. From USPS: A review of business activities of the Post Office at this location revealed that the office workload has declined. This reduced workload suggests the maintenance of an independent Post Office […]
About 40 postmasters from throughout Northwest Missouri gathered at the Old School House in Cameron, Mo., to discuss the proposed closings, what the postal service is doing wrong and what they suggest be done. Unlike the public Postal Service meetings occurring throughout the state this month to discuss rural post office closings, the meeting consisted […]
In late July 2011, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) announced it was considering the closure of 3,652 retail postal facilities. These are not the only USPS facilities that might discontinue operations. An additional 728 retail postal facilities are being considered for closure under a 2009 USPS initiative, for a total of 4,380 USPS retail facilities.