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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]