The United Auto Workers And Climate Groups Join Together To Push The USPS To Buy Electric Postal Vehicles To Replace Their Old, Gas-Guzzling Fleet. After nearly 30 years in the labor movement, Cindy Estrada is well familiar with the corporate playbook. “As soon as wages and benefits are decent, they want to move that work somewhere else.” That’s what happened, the United Autoworkers Vice President explained at a recent rally, after Oshkosh Defense secured a huge contract to build postal vehicles. “The ink was still drying,” Estrada said, “when they announced they were moving the work to South Carolina.” UAW members […]
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Congress recently passed the Postal Service Reform Act – the result of 15 years of organizing to end the mandate to prefund 75 years worth of retirement benefits and other changes that were hurting the people’s post office. The new act opens the door to building on the current postal infrastructure to provide more services to people, especially in poor and rural communities. Clearing the FOG speaks with Chuck Zlatkin, the legislative and political director of the largest local postal worker union, about what the new law will do and how it was won. Zlatkin also discusses the fight over making […]
New Reform Bill Reinforces Authority For Postal Banking By David Dayen, The American Prospect. March 12, 2022 New Reform Bill Reinforces Authority For Postal Banking2022-03-122022-03-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220312-2.jpg200px200px Above Photo: United States Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testifies during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on February 24, 2021. Graeme Jennings / Pool via AP. But the only way it’s going to happen is if Postmaster General Louis DeJoy agrees to it. A postal reform bill that passed Congress this week could offer another opportunity to install a postal banking system in the United States, according to a review by the Prospect. While the $107 […]
Postal Reform Act Passes In Senate, Sent To President Biden’s Desk By National Association of Letter Carriers. March 8, 2022 Postal Reform Act Passes In Senate, Sent To President Biden’s Desk2022-03-082022-03-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/tows.banner-1.jpg200px200px Above photo: From Take On Wall Street. NOTE: Here is a message from the office of the president of the American Postal Workers Union: Winning this critical legislation has been a massive collective effort spanning more than a decade. Tens of thousands of people have rallied, signed petitions, written their members of Congress, made countless calls to Capitol Hill and worked in a broad coalition to get us to this […]
Chris Hedges discusses the corporate assault against the US Postal Service with author Christopher W. Shaw. The corporate seizure of public utilities and privatization of schools is part of a broad assault to turn government assets into assets that will swell corporate profit. The post office has been a coveted target for decades. Corporations such as FedEx and UPS have used their lobbyists and campaign contributions to cripple the government postal service in an effort to destroy it and take it over. These corporations engineered a congressional mandate in 2006 that requires the post office to pre-fund the next 75 […]
Above photo: While 9.4 percent of New York City households have no bank account, in the Bronx that number nearly doubles to 17.7 percent. Anthony Behar/SIPA USA via AP images. From September 13 to October 31, not a single customer put a paycheck on a gift card in one of the four test locations. New York City – When the United States Postal Service launched a test program in September allowing people with business or payroll checks to get them loaded onto gift cards at four neighborhood post offices, it was seen as a primitive precursor to a postal banking system. But in […]
Above Photo: Getty Images A Pilot Postal Banking Program Has Been Implemented In A Number Of U.S. Cities. Next, Let’s Rapidly Expand It—And Take It Nationwide. The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that, while we’re all interconnected — through the air we breathe, our public health systems, the economy — the government is largely absent in American life, leaving us to fend for ourselves as individuals in the so-called “free market.” The crisis has wreaked economic havoc on working Americans. But U.S. billionaires have gotten 62 percent richer during the pandemic, while over 86 million Americans lost jobs, some 3 million households now report concerns of imminent eviction, and essential workers — particularly Latino, Indigenous and Black workers — continue to die […]
The current US Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, and the head of the Board of Governors, Ron Bloom, launched a ten year plan that will slow mail service and raise prices. This is the final blow to defund and destroy the US Postal Service so it will be ripe for privatization. DeJoy and Bloom have financial stakes in this happening. Clearing the FOG speaks with Chuck Zlatkin, legislative and political director for the largest postal union local in the US about the plan and the devastating impact it will have on everyone who relies on the post office. Zlatkin also exposes the […]
Above Photo: Jandos Rothstein The test allows customers to cash business or payroll checks at the post office and place them onto a gift card. The United States Postal Service (USPS) has taken the most dramatic step in a half-century to re-establish a postal banking system in America. In four pilot cities, customers can now cash payroll or business checks of up to $500 at post office locations, and have the money put onto a single-use gift card. It’s the most far-reaching executive action that the Biden administration has taken since Inauguration Day. The move puts the USPS in direct competition with the multibillion-dollar […]
Above Photo: A postal worker gives a thumbs-up to demonstrators protesting the Trump administration’s sabotage of the U.S. Postal Service on August 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Rich Fury/Getty Images. Amid Calls to ‘Fire DeJoy.’ “Millions of Americans depend on the mail every day,” said Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. “One political appointee does not get to decide the fate of the Postal Service.” Twenty state Attorneys General on Friday filed a joint complaint in an effort to block changes to the U.S. Postal Service enacted last week by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and which critics warn are an overt effort to […]
Above Photo: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy looks on during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on February 24, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images) “President Biden has the power to remake the postal governing board and remove DeJoy. He must act.” Defenders of the U.S. Postal Service are urgently renewing their calls for the ouster of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy as his 10-year plan to overhaul the cherished government institution is set to take effect Friday, ushering in permanently slower mail delivery while hiking prices for consumers. “DeJoy calls his plan ‘Delivering for America,’ but it will do the exact opposite—slowing many First Class […]
How Postal Workers Saved The Election By Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. November 26, 2020 How Postal Workers Saved The Election2020-11-262020-11-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/po.jpg200px200px Above photo: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy wants to slash 64 million work hours next year, but his plan isn’t the only one on offer. A working group of rank and filers has compiled all the ways his vision is antithetical to the green, expanded, universal Postal Service the public deserves: bit.ly/postalvision. Jim West/jimwestphoto.com. The story of mail ballots in 2020 is the story of a union postal workforce willing to go to extraordinary lengths to make sure that every vote got delivered. […]
Communities Of Color Hurt The Most By Postal Service Attack By Taryn MacKinney, the Union of Concerned Scientists. October 21, 2020 Communities Of Color Hurt The Most By Postal Service Attack2020-10-212020-10-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/usps-1-e1603283726449.png200px200px The Postal Service is Under Attack. Our Research Shows Who This Hurts Most. With just weeks until the 2020 election, the USPS is racing to prepare for a historic surge in mail-in voting. Our recent analysis of USPS records, which we received via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, suggests that the number of mail-delivery complaints has risen since March, especially in communities of color. For nearly 250 years, the United States […]
California Is Ready To Pilot A Postal Banking Solution By Thomas M. Hanna and Jeff Olson, The Hill. October 14, 2020 California Is Ready To Pilot A Postal Banking Solution2020-10-142020-10-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/usps.png200px200px Above photo: Greg Nash. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is under attack and at grave risk. But with that many Americans are awakening to both the value of the USPS and the manifest dangers of privatization. The crisis has also sparked renewed interest in postal banking, a win-win approach that could both make the USPS more financially resilient and provide badly needed financial services to tens of millions of Americans. Over the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/06/1080678662_0:320:3072:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_b66fa727491fb1b88cd13bc295ce1679.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202010061080678577-yandy-brand-releases-exclusive-sexy-mail-in-ballot-postal-babe-holloween-costumes/ For the first time in the history of the United States, mail-in and absentee voting, which was traditionally used US military service members located overseas on Election Day, has been allowed on a large scale this year due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. American online retailer and fashion design company Yandy has released two new exclusive Halloween costumes with revealing outfits themed around the 3 November presidential vote in the United States. One of the costumes, titled “Mail-In Ballot”, is described as “featuring a white pull-on tube dress with postal detailing, […]
The US Postal Service Is A National Asset September 30, 2020 The US Postal Service Is A National Asset2020-09-302020-09-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/joe-piette-main-image-2.jpg200px200px Above photo: Joe Piette/Labor Notes. Don’t trash it! Introduction: The financial problems of the United States Postal Service (USPS) are the result of misguided policy decisions — some of them long-standing — not declines in first-class mail, its primary source of revenue. With the increased demands of voting by mail in a national election and a boom in home package delivery, the pandemic makes a well-resourced postal service more important than ever. Nostrums about the public debt have contributed to a decades-long, […]
New Hotline For Postal Service Whistleblowers By Project on Government Oversight. September 15, 2020 New Hotline For Postal Service Whistleblowers2020-09-152020-09-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/postal-service-e1600169848689.jpg200px200px Above photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP. Postal Service Workers: POGO Seeks Insider Information. The United States Postal Service provides safe, timely communication for all Americans. Increasingly, that includes supporting U.S. elections by handling mail-in ballots, a function of vital importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. But unprecedented turmoil has shaken the institution in recent months. Concerns are mounting that administrative changes could undermine the agency’s basic mission: to deliver all Americans’ mail safely and on time. POGO USPS Hotline Help us investigate and advocate […]
A U.S. Postal Service board member, who reportedly played a key role in the selection of Louis DeJoy to lead the agency, called the Black Lives Matter movement violent and floated a conspiracy theory that it may be financially backed by foreign entities. In June, John M. Barger, who serves on the Postal Service’s six-member Board of Governors, engaged in a back-and-forth on LinkedIn with a contact in Hong Kong. The exchange is publicly accessible on Barger’s profile on the platform. It began with that contact posting a photo of the strict public health measures in effect in Hong Kong due […]
Trump And DeJoy’s Main Objective: Incapacitate The US Postal Service August 31, 2020 Trump And DeJoy’s Main Objective: Incapacitate The US Postal Service2020-08-312020-08-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/postalsorter-e1598889795187.jpg200px200px What we need now is to see a plethora of other states joining in these lawsuits that are charging Trump and DeJoy with deliberate voter suppression. NOTE: We remind our readers that the Democrats are also responsible for the demise of the US Postal Service. They could have repealed the 2006 law that requires it to pre-fund 75 years of retirement, including health benefits, a law the Democrats nearly unanimously supported. This costs the USPS over $5.5 billion […]
Retired postal worker Glenda Morris protests postal cutbacks on Aug. 25, 2020, in New York. African Americans make up 27 percent of the Postal Service, about twice their share of the overall workforce. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Lennihan/AP Retired postal worker Glenda Morris protests postal cutbacks on Aug. 25, 2020, in New York. African Americans make up 27 percent of the Postal Service, about twice their share of the overall workforce. Mark Lennihan/AP Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s cost-cutting measures have raised concerns about mail-in voting. But critics worry they may also set the stage for privatizing the U.S. […]
Are Postal Service Cuts Motivated By Voter Suppression, Privatization Or Both? By Sarah Anderson and Scott Klinger, Inequality. August 25, 2020 Are Postal Service Cuts Motivated By Voter Suppression, Privatization Or Both?2020-08-252020-08-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2016/05/Screen-Shot-2016-05-24-at-1.39.18-PM-150×99.png200px200px Above photo: Members of the Campaign for Postal Banking delivered more than 150,000 signatures on a petition to the U.S. Postal Service headquarters in December 2015. Throughout its 245-year history, the Postal Service has persevered through rain, snow, heat, the gloom of night, and even a global pandemic to serve the American people. But now this vital public service is under attack from within. In the course of two short […]
US Postal Service Employees Ordered Not To Speak To Press By Sarah K. Burris, The New Civil Rights Movement. August 23, 2020 US Postal Service Employees Ordered Not To Speak To Press2020-08-232020-08-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/usps.jpg200px200px Above photo: Shutterstock. While the U.S. Postal Service is under attack, everyone from letter carriers to union chairs and those working behind the doors in processing facilities has sounded the alarm about what they’re seeing from the top as part of the intentional mail slow down. VICE News reported Thursday that USPS staff were sent a letter telling them that they can’t talk to the press under any circumstances. The memo, […]
The 300,000 members of the National Association of Letter Carriers endorsed Joe Biden for president.The NALC said in their endorsement that the future of the postal service is at stake. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY mail-in voting should take place this year! ABC News reported: A major union representing U.S. postal workers has endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president, a move that comes as President Donald Trump has acknowledged starving the postal service of money in order to make it more difficult to vote by mail in November’s election. TRENDING: Police Make Second Arrest in Attack on 7-Year-Old Trump Supporter Outside […]
Above photo: A postal worker feeds mail into a high-speed letter-sorting machine. US Postal Service file photo. Despite a national order not to reinstall letter-sorting machines that had been dismantled over the past month, the Postal Service plants in Tacoma and Wenatchee have done just that, according to workers there. Forty percent of the letter-sorting machines in the Seattle-Tacoma area had been disconnected by Tuesday, when the Postal Service announced a halt to a nationwide machinery purge until after the November election. “I have seen a lot of machinery that has been taken out,” Postal Service truck driver Bob Bockman of Tacoma […]
Congress: Postal Service Delays ‘Far Worse Than Previously Acknowledged’ By J. Edward Moreno, The Hill. August 23, 2020 Congress: Postal Service Delays ‘Far Worse Than Previously Acknowledged’2020-08-232020-08-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/dejoy1-e1598183992875.jpeg200px200px Above photo: Postmaster General Louis DeJoy (2nd R) arrives for a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on August 5, 2020. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images. House Democrats on the Oversight and Reform Committee released documents Saturday showing that Postal Service delays they say are “far worse than previously acknowledged.” […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/13/1080219823_0:94:3067:1819_1200x675_80_0_0_b13184018dfeab85b7991a5232c2d550.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008221080250239-house-approves-bill-to-provide-25-billion-to-us-postal-service/ US Senate Majority Leader McConnell has said that the Senate “will absolutely not pass” the bill providing $25 billion in support to the US Postal Service. After a vote in the House of Representatives, the document must first go to the Senate for approval, and then to the president for signature. The bill prohibits the US Postal Service from making any of the operational or service changes that were introduced on 1 January 2020. On Wednesday, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the bill for the US Postal Service would be passed in […]
The House passed legislation Saturday to provide $25 billion to the Postal Service to help safeguard voting by mail ahead of the November election. Nati Harnik/AP hide caption toggle caption Nati Harnik/AP The House passed legislation Saturday to provide $25 billion to the Postal Service to help safeguard voting by mail ahead of the November election. Nati Harnik/AP The House passed legislation on Saturday to infuse $25 billion into the Postal Service and block operational changes that Democrats fear could hobble mail-in voting in this November’s election. In a rare Saturday session, the House passed the measure by a vote of […]
Rotting Food, Dead Animals And Chaos At Postal Facilities By Laura J. Nelson and Maya Lau, LA Times. August 22, 2020 Rotting Food, Dead Animals And Chaos At Postal Facilities2020-08-222020-08-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/po-e1598107718296.jpg200px200px Above photo: Employees at California postal facilities provide a glimpse of the chaos amid both the pandemic and widespread cuts imposed by the USPS. Eduardo Contreras / San Diego Union- Tribune. NOTE: Tuesday, August 25 is a national day of action to save the US Postal Service. Find an action near you or plan one at APWU.org. Six weeks ago, U.S. Postal Service workers in the high desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., […]
Jim Jordan is always TERRIFIC! The popular Ohio conservative went on with Anti-Trumper Neil Cavuto to discuss the Democrat Party’s latest conspiracy over disappearing mailboxes. Democrats want Americans to believe that the evil Orange Man is ripping out mailboxes and postal sorting machines to corrupt the November election.It’s completely crazy but they are running with it. Democrats are hoping to sully the election process when President Trump wins again so they can continue their attacks on the popular US president. TRENDING: FAKE HATE: Black Democrat Faked and FILMED her Own Beating and Kidnapping… WTH? And She Did it For Votes — […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/12/1080201986_0:179:3072:1907_1200x675_80_0_0_0a6e3d9ad12ce2f72fd34a2a48c19f94.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008221080241989-white-house-advises-trump-to-veto-bill-to-fund-postal-service-ahead-of-saturday-vote/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The White House Office of Management and Budget in a letter said it will advise President Donald Trump to veto legislation to fund the US Postal Service. “If HR 8015 were presented to the President, his advisers would recommend that he veto the bill”, the agency said in the letter on Friday. The White House said it opposes the bill because it claims it would place counterproductive restrictions on the US Postal Service’s limited operational flexibilities and would do nothing to improve the agency. On Saturday, the House of Representatives will […]
Poultry farmers in Maine are denouncing a massive increase in incidents of baby chicks dying en route to their farms, attributing the fatalities to operational changes recently implemented by the US Postal Service (USPS). The USPS is vital for poultry farmers, due to the fact that no privately-owned companies ship live animals by mail. Since Maine has no hatcheries of its own, the state relies on shipments from other places to meet its poultry needs. The chicks recently shipped via USPS mail that arrived dead have already cost Maine farmers thousands of dollars in losses, not to mention the sadness and […]
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, left, while visiting Capitol Hill earlier this month. DeJoy is set to testify before Senate and House panels in the coming days over his controversial plans to cut costs at the sprawling postal service, which many Democrats fear could slow the delivery of mail ballots this fall. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption toggle caption Carolyn Kaster/AP Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, left, while visiting Capitol Hill earlier this month. DeJoy is set to testify before Senate and House panels in the coming days over his controversial plans to cut costs at the sprawling postal service, which many Democrats fear […]
Postal Service Halts Some Changes Amid Outcry, Protests And Lawsuits By Lisa Mascaro and Anthony Izaguirre, Associated Press. August 19, 2020 Postal Service Halts Some Changes Amid Outcry, Protests And Lawsuits2020-08-192020-08-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/protest-for-the-post-office-from-saveourpostoffice-e1597810636347.png200px200px Above photo: Protest for the Post Office from SaveOurPostOffice.com. Facing mounting public pressure and a crush of state lawsuits, President Donald Trump’s new postmaster general announced Tuesday he is halting some operational changes to mail delivery that critics blamed for widespread delays and warned could disrupt the November election. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said he would “suspend” several of his initiatives — including the removal of the distinctive blue mailboxes that […]
The crisis at the Postal Service has been building and accelerating for months with virtually no official response. Over the past two weeks, however, it reached a crescendo that even the country’s remarkably confrontation-averse opposition party could not ignore. In a matter of days, overwhelming grassroots pressure pushed House Democrats from seemingly having no plan to executing a rapid return to Washington, D.C., getting a hearing with the postmaster general on the calendar for next week and winning a promise from Louis DeJoy to cease operational changes until after the election. But, despite these early wins, protecting the USPS will require […]
Democrats want you to trust your vote with some liberal mail carrier. Back in 2016 a mail carrier in Delaware was caught on video removing Trump signs from a yard.The owner filmed the entire theft. DelawareOnline reported: A postal worker was caught on camera allegedly stealing a Donald Trump campaign sign Thursday from the lawn of a home in Townsend. TRENDING: “This is a Warning For What’s Coming!” – Veteran and California Business Owner Fed Up with Covid Lockdown Orders Puts County Board of Supervisors on Notice (VIDEO) The Republican presidential candidate’s campaign sign was in the area of U.S. 13 […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/1f/1080021933_0:34:3072:1762_1200x675_80_0_0_1ce5b4dfb781e29589f65f762be5d0d2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008171080199172-democratic-senators-say-they-seek-to-reverse-us-postal-service-changes/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Seven Democratic senators said in a joint statement on Monday that they are asking the US Postal Service to reverse the operational changes in place that could adversely impact mail-in balloting in the November presidential election. “I’m standing with Senators [Elizabeth] Warren, Gary Peters, [Bernie] Sanders and Senate Democrats to demand that the Postal Board of Governors immediately reverse the changes made by Trump mega-donor turned Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, that have degraded and delayed Postal Service operations”, Senator Charles Schumer said via Twitter about the statement. The senators said DeJoy […]
US President Donald Trump has been facing accusations from Democrats for “sabotaging” mail-in balloting in the upcoming presidential election by his reluctance to fund the US Postal Service over his opposition to voting by mail, which, according to the president, could lead to election fraud. US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has called the US House of Representatives back from its vacation recess to return to session, also summoning the Postmaster General and the chairman of the Postal Service Board of Governors to testify before Congress. According to a statement from Pelosi’s office, recent operational changes at the Postal Service “are […]
A group of protestors holds a demonstration in front of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s home in Greensboro, N.C. on Sunday. DeJoy has recently come under fire for changes made at the U.S. Postal Service that have delayed mail in advance of the November elections. Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images A group of protestors holds a demonstration in front of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s home in Greensboro, N.C. on Sunday. DeJoy has recently come under fire for changes made at the U.S. Postal Service that have delayed mail in advance of the November […]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is calling the House of Representatives back from summer vacation this week to vote on a bill to prohibit the U.S. Postal Service from :implementing any changes to operations or level of service it had in place on January 1, 2020.” Democrats have become panicked as the new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has made efforts to reform the cash-hemorrhaging Postal Service at the same time the Democrats are pushing for nationwide mail-in voting for the November elections. Pelosi is calling for Democrats to protest at Post Offices in their districts on Tuesday for a […]
Protect The Vote And End Privatization Of The Postal Service By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. August 16, 2020 | Featured Campaign, Newsletter Protect The Vote And End Privatization Of The Postal Service2020-08-162020-08-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/photo_1-e1597607266401.jpg200px200px As we warned earlier in the year, the US Postal Service is failing due to a long term effort to weaken it plus the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic, recession and intentional efforts by the Trump administration to suppress the vote. Members of Congress and state leaders are starting to take notice because of the magnitude of the crisis and public outcry, particularly over valid concerns […]
The Trump administration’s criminal operation to steal the election is underway, as the president and his postmaster general set about demolishing the mail in what appears to be a devious plot to discount lawful votes cast in dense, majority Democratic and often Black and brown ZIP codes. It’s time for a question that has often been directed at Donald Trump — “Will you accept the election results?” — to be asked of the newly minted Democratic Biden-Harris ticket, because the president’s administration is actively delegitimizing the November election, to the delight of complicit Republicans. Trump’s unfounded claim in 2016 was that […]
Pop star Taylor Swift tweeted to her 86 million followers on Twitter a political diatribe accusing President Trump of cheating to win re-election by the “calculated dismantling” of the Postal Service. Swift joins a growing chorus of liberals who see a conspiracy to subvert the Democrat’s election push for mail-in voting. Promo photo for Taylor Swift’s new album Folklore, by Beth Garrabrant “Trump’s calculated dismantling of USPS proves one thing clearly: He is WELL AWARE that we do not want him as our president. He’s chosen to blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans’ lives at risk in an effort to […]
Erica Koesler of Los Angeles demonstrates outside a USPS post office as a postal worker walks by in the background on Saturday. The USPS has warned states coast to coast that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail for the November election will arrive in time to be counted, even if mailed by state deadlines. Chris Pizzello/AP hide caption toggle caption Chris Pizzello/AP Erica Koesler of Los Angeles demonstrates outside a USPS post office as a postal worker walks by in the background on Saturday. The USPS has warned states coast to coast that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast […]
Britain and France are constructing barriers to prevent migrants from crossing the English Channel while in America Trump is creating barriers to keep people from voting. Alexander Mercouris, editor-in-chief of The Duran; and Dr. Kenneth Surin, professor emeritus of literature and professor of religion and critical theory at Duke University dsicuss what is behind the increase of migrants crossing the English Channel. Britain and France have agreed this week to increase their efforts to stop migrants from crossing the English Channel in small boats, according to a UK government minister who took part in talks in Paris on Tuesday. Immigration minister […]
Letter carrier Henrietta Dixon, a 30-year veteran, sorts mail to be delivered before she sets out on her route in Philadelphia. Changes within the Postal Service could make some deliveries late. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption toggle caption Matt Rourke/AP Letter carrier Henrietta Dixon, a 30-year veteran, sorts mail to be delivered before she sets out on her route in Philadelphia. Changes within the Postal Service could make some deliveries late. Matt Rourke/AP On his first day on the job last month, new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy addressed the nearly half million U.S. Postal Service career employees in a video message. He […]
A US Postal worker was caught on video throwing a stack of GOP congressional candidate campaign mailers in a dumpster. Sheriff Troy Nehls is running for Texas Congressional District 22. Mr. Nehls is a pro-Trump conservative, a church-going family man, tough on crime and tough on border security. No wonder why the left is trying to derail his campaign. TRENDING: PRAYERS NEEDED: St. Louis City Treasurer Smears Local Christians for Holding Prayer Protest at St. Louis Statue — Labels Christian St. Louisans ‘KKK’ for Wanting to Save Statue of Catholic Saint “A US Postal worker was just caught on video throwing […]
The rioting went on late into the night Thursday in Minneapolis, stretching into early Friday morning with protesters stealing and torching several U.S. Postal Service vans to protest the death in police custody of George Floyd on Monday. Photos and videos show the vans being driven for joy rides and at least one set on fire. By my count there have been four postal vans stolen and destroyed. pic.twitter.com/EoXFFXbDvy — robertklemko (@RobertKlemko) May 29, 2020 The overturned postal van at East Lake and Minnehaha pic.twitter.com/WCztP4tfdA — robertklemko (@RobertKlemko) May 29, 2020 TRENDING: “What They Are Doing Is Tantamount to Monopoly” – […]
Caravan Supports Workers And Fights U.S. Postal Service Privatization By Martha Alston, Peoples World. May 28, 2020 Caravan Supports Workers And Fights U.S. Postal Service Privatization2020-05-282020-05-28https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/pjimage-7-3.jpg200px200px Above photo: The U.S. Postal Service is a significant force for employment equity in the United States, with high numbers of people of color and veterans in its ranks. Here, USPS carrier Henrietta Dixon delivers mail to a resident on her route, Alvin Fields, on May 6, 2020. Fields called Dixon “absolutely wonderful.” Matt Rourke / AP. On Thursday, May 21, 80 cars lined up, in front of the Main Post Office in downtown Detroit, to […]