Postal Service begins process of slowing first class mail, unions outraged
The service cutbacks come on the heels of record-breaking and successful holiday deliveries of 15.5 billion packages, letters and parcels.
NLRB hits Postal Service for breaking labor law
The dispute over the outsourcing is part of what postal unions call the Postmaster General's creeping privatization of the Postal Service.
Letter carriers step up drive to save Postal Service
Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando is challenging his union to step up its crusade to save the Postal Service, saying that "if we don't, no one else will."
Letter carriers campaign to save postal service
With Congress home for a two-week Easter-Passover recess, the Letter Carriers and other postal unions have seized the opportunity to campaign.
Unions hit latest plans for postal cuts
The nation's postal unions protested cutback plans that would close hundreds of distribution centers and lengthen delivery times.
Postal unions blast two "rescue" bills
Postal workers are blasting both Postal Service "rescue" bills as deeply flawed legislation that would come close to killing the Postal Service.
Postal unions, postal service collide over layoff scheme, health care cuts
The nation's postal unions and the U.S. Postal Service's management have collided over management's latest plan to close what it says is a yawning deficit: mass layoffs, violating union contracts, and cuts in health care.
Plan to end Saturday mail delivery is un-American
CHICAGO — Who doesn’t love the smiling letter carrier who hands you the mail, pulls cats out of trees, braves fires, chases away burglars and engages in numberless additional acts of heroism?
