“NALC 82 (Portland, Oregon) organizing committee members Willie Groshell, Brad Melland, and Tom Richardson defend our postal service on local cable access show.” “Portland Oregon Public Access program, “A Growing Concern,” featuring a discussion about the current attempts to privatize the US Postal Service. Three guests, two letter carriers and one retired letter carrier, speak […]
MARICOPA, AZ – Victoria DiFranco flew to Cleveland last October to be by her sister’s side before she died of cancer. “I spent her last couple of weeks with her. She passed on November 5th,” DiFranco said. After the funeral, DiFranco mailed several packages from Ohio to her home in Maricopa filled with irreplaceable memories. […]
New York Postal Clerk meets British cancer patient for the first time: New York, NY – When Audrey Pollard joined the national bone marrow registry in 2003, she didn’t think she would be contacted, or that she would be anyone’s ‘exact’ match. Mark Worrall is glad Pollard was wrong. Worrall, who’s from Birmingham, England, was […]
This ad, “Walt Gale, ” features a 22-year veteran of the Colorado Springs mail processing plant who speaks about the critical services the Postal Service provides to all Americans. The spot is one of three new television spots that highlight the critical ways America depends on the Postal Service — and the devastating effect closing […]
This ad, “Michael Bazinet, ” tells the story of a small business owner in Bangor, Maine. Bazinet’s company — Creative Digital Imaging — relies on the critical services of the Eastern Maine processing plant. Bazinet speaks about the impact of reduced services, which would result in lost clients and potential layoffs. This ad is one […]
A 31-year-old postal worker died Wednesday after his legs were severed in a freak accident Tuesday in Boyle Heights, police said. The worker, identified Wednesday evening as Anthony Dunn Jr., was standing near the rear of his van around noon Tuesday in the 1100 block of Prado Street when he was struck by another vehicle […]
NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) — Another South Florida postal worker has been robbed while on the job. The postal worker was trying to put mail into a set of mailboxes in the area when two suspects approached her from behind. According to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the robbers snatched the victim’s master key, which […]
Postal employees raised money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals by knocking pins down and with a raffle full of prize baskets they put together with donations. They are hoping to raise $5,000. All proceeds will go to local CMN hospitals and will benefit local children like four-year-old Olivia Vogler, from La Crosse. Olivia was born […]
(Portland, Oregon: “At 2:30pm on Tuesday, Feb. 7, over a hundred activists from dozens of unions and community organizations, under the banner of JOBS with JUSTICE and the slogan of GOOD JOBS, NO CUTS swarmed out of two buses into University Station post office, which is slated for closure. This 13 min. video, which includes […]
“Federal employees from AFGE Locals representing Veterans Affairs nurses, Defense Department workers and federal corrections officers ask GOP lawmakers to “explain it to me” how cutting federal pay and benefits helps put Americans back to work.” American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO also http://explainittomegop.wordpress.com/