Category: Press

Postal Updates Data show decline in USPS mail service Jan 25, 2021, 2 PM Washington Postal Scene by Bill McAllister Tony Rothwell of Pinehurst, N.C., asked a question that a lot of Americans are posing these days: “If the post office can’t be bothered to deliver the mail in a timely manner, why should we…

  Postal Updates Chaotic USPS mail conditions in several areas Dec 15, 2020, 1 PM According to news accounts, dozens of tractor trailers waited for days to unload mail at a Cleveland processing plant. Screen capture of mail trucks from a USPS video about mail processing. By Bill McAllister, Washington Correspondent A combination of postal…

Monday | December 14th, 2020 Postage Rates Could Jump 7.6% During 2021 The NonProfit Times News December 14, 2020 Postal rates are set to rise by an average of almost 2 percent next month as part of annual increases by the United States Postal Service (USPS). Rates might jump even more – maybe 7.6% —…

Postal Updates A call for taxpayer funding of the U.S. Postal Service Sep 16, 2020, 10 AM Taxpayer funding was something Congress abandoned with great joy 50 years ago during the Nixon administration. Washington Postal Scene by Bill McAllister In the midst of the controversies over Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, an astute postal observer in…

Ad targeting Collins over Postal Service debts leaves a lot out Postal finances are more complicated than the ads let on, and members of both parties have had a hand in bringing the agency to where it is today. By Kevin MillerPortland Press Herald Share 1 Comment A pair of television ads from Democrats blaming…

  Attempting to refocus attention on the long-term reform needs of our postal system, the Alliance submitted an opinion piece that was published by Roll Call yesterday.  It is reproduced below and available at Roll Call here.   Opinion How to fix the US Postal Service Congress can no longer ignore the need for a…

DMAW Webinar, August 26, 2020 – USPS Status: What is Fact and What is Fiction?

A years-old Senate standoff contributed to the current controversy, experts say. By Lucien Bruggeman August 20, 2020, 4:05 AM 23 min read As President Barack Obama’s second term came to a close, a dispute erupted between two of the Senate’s most polarizing figures. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., squared…

Opinion Democrats go postal over the Postal Service by Mike Palicz  | August 20, 2020 01:50 PM Print this article Democrats and their allies in the media would have us believe there is a dastardly plot within the U.S. Postal Service to rig the election in favor of President Trump. In reality, this is a…

Empty mailboxes, missed rent: US Postal Service’s struggles have real-world impacts Joel Shannon Donovan Slack Kevin McCoy USA TODAY Empty mailboxes, uncounted ballots, late medication, missed rent payments – those are among the real-world impacts of the struggles of the U.S. Postal Service. Many of those issues, documented this summer across the USA TODAY Network, predate the feverish…