February 23, 2012 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following reports that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) plans to close eight Mail & Processing Distribution Centers (P&DC) in Ohio despite a moratorium aimed at preventing consolidation until Congress passes postal reform legislation, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today called on the USPS to halt consolidation. “The five-month moratorium […]
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The Postal Service has announced that most Area Mail Processing and other facility consolidation studies begun more than five months ago have been completed. All employees of the affected facilities have been notified. There has been a 25 percent decline in First-Class Mail volume since 2006, and the Postal Service receives no tax dollars for […]
The U.S. Postal Service on Thursday informed tens of thousands of employees that it plans to close mail processing facilities. The decisions are not final. No closings will occur before May 15. Postmaster General Patrick Donahue agreed to that timetable under moratorium proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders to give Congress time to act. “The plan […]
Sen. Carper Statement on U.S. Postal Service’s Processing and Distribution Center at Hares Corner WILMINGTON, Del. – Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement on the U.S. Postal Service’s announcement regarding its Processing and Distribution Center at Hares Corner: “The news that we heard today from leadership at the U.S. Postal Service’s Processing […]
Mail Forwarding Program Made Easier Online WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service has added it’s extremely popular Premium Forwarding Service to it’s suite of online products and services at usps.com. Previously only available at a Post Office, Premium Forwarding Service can now be accessed online using your USPS.com account. With Premium Forwarding Service you […]
Documents from the GameFly Court Case: Excerpts from the Respondents Brief: Petitioner GameFly is a company engaged in the online rental of video games. It distributes its rental games by mailing DVD’s to customers, who then return the DVD’s to GameFly in pre-addressed reply mailers. In 2009, it filed a complaint with the Commission under […]
BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER)– Postal workers and others are asking to save several smaller post offices and one distribution center in Maine from closing. Many people including United States Representative Michael Michaud rallied near the Bangor Post office. They want the United States Postal Service to cancel plans to close smaller post offices and to […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) today released an important update to its business plan for returning to profitability and long-term financial stability. While fundamentally consistent with the approach advanced by the Postal Service over the past year, the plan released today incorporates important refinements of financial projections and recommended legislative reforms. “The plan […]
The Postal Service’s latest five-year plan, which it announced with great fanfare on Feb. 16, is “a warmed-over menu of proposals that are doomed to fail,” said APWU President Cliff Guffey. “The Postal Service cannot cut its way to financial health. The USPS must modernize, improve service, and offer new products in order to succeed,” […]