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Biden announces Postal Board pick: Marty Walsh 

Postal unions are applauding President Biden’s new nominee to serve on the Postal Board of Governors: Marty Walsh.
National

Union prayers answered: U.S. Postal Service is saved

It was Congress that put the U.S. Postal Service at risk with a retiree medical pre-funding mandate. Now Congress has stepped in to save it.
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Portland delivers message on USPS’ 242nd birthday

Job cuts are causing longer lines and delay of mail delivery.
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Staples boycott ends with union win

The National Labor Relations Board ordered the US Postal Service to stop privatizing union members' work.
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On USPS birthday, Portlanders deliver a message

A bill in Congress would end door-to-door delivery nationwide
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Hey, Postmaster General! No more cuts in postal service!

Since 2007, USPS has closed 153 processing plants and eliminated 155,000 jobs.
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Rally to save postal service celebrates Postal Heritage Day

July 26 was the 240th anniversary of the U.S. Postal Service.
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RETURN TO SENDER: NLRB says Postal Service deal with Staples broke federal law

USPS broke the law when it outsourced to Staples without bargaining with the union
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Bend, Eugene mail processing centers to remain open

Postal unions and others have protested the proposed plant closures for more than a year.
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Charges dropped against ‘postal defenders’ — again

Defendants didn't get a speedy trial in criminal trespass case over civil disobedience
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Postmaster General named ‘Scrooge of the Year’ by Jobs with Justice

The group accuses him of dismantling the postal service
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Postal workers cheer postmaster general’s resignation

Call for a moratorium on USPS’s plan to close 82 mail sorting centers — three of them in Oregon
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Charges against ‘postal defenders’ dropped

A judge dismissed criminal charges in a two-year-old civil disobedience protest case
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Top postal executive’s visit to Vancouver draws protest

Protesters blasted postal facility closures and service cuts
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Charges dropped against 3 ‘postal protectors’

The three activists were arrested blocking a private truck contracted to transport the U.S. mail
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Ben Franklin would be rolling in his grave

The union boycott of Staples is growing, in protest of postal privatization.
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Staples boycott grows

Unions boycott Staples after it contracts with USPS to staff mini-post offices in stores.
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Postal service tries to ditch door delivery in Portland

USPS managers are soliciting property owners to convert from at-the-door to “cluster box” delivery
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Seven protesters arrested at Springfield postal facility

The mail processing plant is slated for closure
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Planned occupation of NW Portland’s main post office thwarted

Department of Homeland Security police stood in a post office entrance.
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