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Portland City Council questions USPS plans
Portland City Council is asking the U.S. Postal Service to hold a local public hearing about its plan to consolidate mail sorting in Oregon.
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Unionists protest plans for postal hub that would increase driving by letter carriers
Instead of sorting mail in the post office closest to their routes, letter carriers will drive to a massive sorting facility in Hillsboro.
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USPS may stop processing mail in Eugene and Medford
If the proposed changes are approved, items mailed in Medford or Eugene would be first trucked to Portland, then trucked back.
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Postal unions to Biden: Stop stalling and fill postal board vacancies
Postal workers have repeatedly protested plans to slow mail, raise prices, close postal facilities, and pave the way for privatization.
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U.S. House passes postal reform in a lopsided bipartisan vote
HR 3076 would end the $5 billion yearly prepayment of future retirees’ health care costs, a requirement which causes nearly all USPS losses.
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Time to remove the Postmaster General
DeJoy’s 10-year plan is slowing the mail, raising prices, cutting and closing postal facilities, and outsourcing postal work.
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Labor rallies against Postal Service slowdowns, calls for DeJoy’s ouster
The Postmaster’s new 10-year plan will slow First Class and parcel deliveries, raise prices, close post offices, and outsource postal work.
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As USPS turns 246, unions vow to keep it going
The first postmaster general, Ben Franklin (played by Letter Carriers Branch 82 retiree Dave Medford), enjoys a bite of birthday cake at the East Portland Post Office July 26 where union and community members celebrated the 246th birthday of the U.S. Postal Service.
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Postal unions alarmed by parts of postmaster general’s plan
Postmaster General DeJoy's 10-year plan to save USPS would slow first class mail delivery, reduce post office hours, and raise prices.
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Wyden at protest: Save the U.S. Postal Service
Aug. 22 saw demonstrations in support of the U.S. Postal Service at hundreds of post offices around the country.
Comment
A threat to democracy
Why would the USPS—a beloved agency that's competitive with private delivery services—be the target of attacks by the Trump administration?
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National day of action to save USPS
Portland supporters rally and march over the Hawthorne Bridge.
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Mask-wearing supporters call on Congress to rescue USPS
The COVID-19 crisis has caused a 30% drop in mail volume. The Postmaster General says USPS will run out of money by September.Â
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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.
