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Postal workers, customers save Saturday mail – for now
April 10, 2013The United States Postal Service said Wednesday that it would delay its plan to cease delivery of first-class mail on Saturdays.
Read morePitney Bowes pays lawmakers to push privatizing Post Office
January 14, 2013Under this plan, financed by Pitney Bowes, the entire Postal Service would become a series of private companies.
Read moreLetter Carriers slam new federal report on postal service
January 10, 2013A new federal report on the financial ills of the U.S. Postal Service is a reiteration of previous justifications for huge agency prepayments of future retirees' health care costs.
Read morePostal workers’ hunger strike over, victory declared
December 26, 2012The hunger strikers called on postal management to suspend cuts and closures and allow Congress to fix the finances by repealing the prefunding mandate and refunding the pension surplus.
Read moreHunger strike underway in D.C.
June 26, 2012Planned cuts to the U.S. Postal Service that would cost more than 100,000 active workers their jobs and other cuts, prompted eight retired union Letter Carriers to begin a hunger strike in D.C. on June 25....
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