Postal Service
Sen Sanders LTE: Getting the Right U.S. Postal Service for the 21st Century (Wall Street Journal)
May 9, 2012
By Sen. Bernie Sanders In response to your editorial (“The Senate’s Pony Express,” May 2) on the U.S. Postal Service: In the midst of the worst economic downturn since the 1930s and the collapse of the American middle class, we must do everything we can to prevent the elimination of 220,000 decent-paying jobs at the [...]
Rural post offices are granted a reprieve (USA Today)
By Natalie DiBlasio The Postal Service has dropped plans to close thousands of the nation’s rural post offices. Under pressure from Congress and local communities, the cash-strapped agency has instead decided to trim operations at 13,000 post offices to between two and six hours per day, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe says. “We have listened to [...]
House lawmakers push for vote on Senate Postal Service reform bill (The Hill)
May 6, 2012
By Bernie Becker Lawmakers hoping to force a House vote on a Senate-passed postal reform bill believe some of their colleagues could be swayed by their message of saving jobs and rural access to postal services. Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), who is circulating a letter of support for the Senate bill with Rep. Michael Grimm [...]
Hundreds rally in Montpelier for May Day labor event (VtDigger)
May 2, 2012
By Taylor Dobbs In a gathering reminiscent of the Occupy movement that swept the nation last summer, Vermont’s unions, rights groups and other liberal activists gathered in Montpelier Tuesday for a May Day rally. The rally, organized by the Vermont Workers’ Center, kicked off at Montpelier’s City Hall and police closed off Main Street and [...]
Hundreds turn out for May Day rally in Vt. (WPTZ)
MONTPELIER, Vt. – Hundreds of demonstrators paraded through Vermont’s capital city on May Day calling for health care for all, fair wages and an end to corporate greed. Activists beat drums and chanted: “We are the 99 percent.” They urged lawmakers to “put people first.” Participants at the demonstration included members of the Occupy movements [...]
Vt. lawmakers confer on key bills; end in sight (Boston Globe)
May 1, 2012
By Dave Gram MONTPELIER, Vt.—With hundreds of people clamoring outside for Vermont’s governor to “put people first,” lawmakers inside the Statehouse rejected the latest attempt at overhauling campaign finance laws and prepared for a final round of votes on whether to continue allowing parents to opt out of having their children vaccinated as a requirement [...]
Editorial: Handle with care (Times Argus)
April 27, 2012
The postal reform bill passed by the Senate this week averts the decimation of the Postal Service that had been proposed as a way to save it. Sen. Bernie Sanders took an active role in the Postal Service issue, and in Vermont the benefits will be real. The mail processing center in White River Junction [...]
U.S. Senate passes postal legislation (WPTZ)
April 26, 2012
By David Charns WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. – The U.S. Senate has voted to pass widespread legislation reforming the United States Postal Service. The bill now moves to the House of Representatives. If the postal reforms are passed, the White River Junction and Plattsburgh mail handling facilities would remain open. They had been slated to [...]
Postal Pinch, Part 2 (WCAX)
By Kyle Midura WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt. – The U.S. Postal Service, which receives no government funding, loses $25 million a day, and is projected to run a $14 billion hole this year. Over the last 5 years, mail demand has shriveled, and nonpartisan government reports indicate the carrier is massively overextended. “Frankly, 25,000 of [...]
Audio: Senate Passes Plan To Keep Post Offices Running (NPR)
April 25, 2012
The U.S. Postal Service is so much a part of this country, it’s in the Constitution. And yet with so much written communication now delivered via email, text messages and the Internet, the Postal Service is steadily losing business and operating in the red. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has given Congress until May 15 to [...]
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