Postal workers to protest closing of Youngstown, OH mail center

(November 13, 2014) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio –On Friday, postal workers will gather in front the Covelli Centre at noon to send a message to the Postmaster General and USPS Board of Governors. The Youngstown postal center is slated to close July 2015, and local operations would be handled in Cleveland, saving $7-million a year, according to […]

Michigan State Senator urges Congress to stop closure of Lansing mail processing center

(November 13, 2014) LANSING—A resolution sponsored by Sen. Rick Jones formally requests Congress to prohibit the U.S. Postal Service from closing or consolidating the mail processing and distribution center on Collins Road in Lansing. “It is long overdue that Congress and President Obama come together and finally fix the postal service,” said Jones, R-Grand Ledge. […]

Michigan State Reps. Call for Halt to USPS Lansing mail processing center

Closure of Collins Road processing facility to hurt Lansing economy (November 13, 2014) – LANSING – State Representatives Andy Schor (D-Lansing) and Tom Cochran (D-Mason) today called for immediate action to stop the closing of the Lansing United States Postal Service mail processing and distribution center. “This change being pushed by the Postmaster General needs […]

Hundreds of Postal Workers and Allies Rally In Portland, OR

Deliver Message of Tax-Free Solutions to Postal Crisis Portland, OR – Over two hundred Portland-area letter carriers, other postal workers, family members and allies held a picket and rally Tuesday (tax day), calling attention to tax-free solutions to fix postal service. As last minute tax filers drove up to the blue postal collection boxes, picket […]

Postal Workers and Supporters Rally to Save the USPS in Maine

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 […]