WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Susan Collins, one of the lead sponsors of bipartisan, comprehensive postal reform legislation, issued the following statement regarding the Postmaster General’s comments today about rural post offices. Postmaster General Pat Donahoe announced that none of the 3,200 post offices slated for closure last year will be forcibly shuttered. However, about 13,000 […]
Modifying Retail Window Hours Could Keep Offices Open WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service announced a new strategy today that could keep the nation’s smallest Post Offices open for business, while providing a framework to achieve significant cost savings as part of the plan to return the organization to financial stability. The plan would keep […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The struggling U.S. Postal Service is trying to tamp down concern over its wide-scale cuts, saying it will seek to keep hundreds of rural post offices open with shorter hours. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe tells a news conference the new plan will save the mail agency half a billion dollars each year […]
Current moratorium on closings ends May 15 May 7, 2012 Washington, DC – Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) and other senators have asked Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to extend the moratorium on the closing of post office and mail processing facilities until Congress approves reform legislation. The current moratorium ends May 15, 2012. “For those in […]
Press Release from the office of Senator Joe Manchin Manchin Urges Postal Service to Extend Moratorium Preventing Post Office Closures Without action, the moratorium ends on May 15 Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) today joined a bipartisan group of 43 Senators in a letter urging the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to extend […]
WASHINGTON – The four authors of Senate postal reform legislation Tuesday released a letter they sent to the Postmaster General asking him to delay the closing of post offices and mail processing facilities until reform legislation is signed into law. In a letter to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, the four Senators asked that he extend […]
From National Association of Postmasters “eNAPUS Legislative and Political Bulletin” NAPUS members anxiously fol-lowed the Senate deliberations on S. 1789, the Lieberman-Collins-Carper-Brown postal relief bill. Nobody said it would be pretty — and it wasn’t. The 191-page bill puts the USPS on better financial footing than it currently finds itself. At the same time, S. […]
Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) spoke on the House floor concerning the United States Post Office’s decision to close one of east Texas’ postal processing facilities. He addressed the map error made by the management at the USPS.
Postmaster Patrick Donahoe On C-Span Newmakers The Senate passed legislation this week to preserve post office services as the agency faces financial problems. The 37th Postmaster General, Patrick R. Donahoe, joins us this week on Newsmakers. He discusses the Senates bill, if and when it will move forward in the House and changes the agency […]
Northwest Illinois Area Local,American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO Earlier this month USPS officials met with Postal Employees at the Carol Stream Mail Processing Center in Illinois and informed them of the following: Carol Stream Meets with Employees.. Carol Stream met with employees on tour 1 and tour 3 in a series of one hour meetings […]