Save the Post Office (4)
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton Joins Coalition Leaders to Deliver More than 150,000 Petition Signatures to the Postmaster General in Support of Postal Banking
Written by Andrea Miller
This morning in DC more than 150,000 petitions were delivered to Deputy Postmaster General Ron Stroman by Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton.
This Slick Trick Could Save Farmers and The Post Office at The Same Time
Written by Dan Nosowitz | Modern Farmer
Postal banking is an idea that seems weird and unlikely until you keep thinking about it and really see how it would work and who it would affect. The idea is simple: Institute a public, low-cost banking system that can handle the basic services people need. And instead of building new banks all around the country, just use existing post offices.
Another Attack on Our Postal Service
Written by Dave Johnson | Campaign for America's Future
There are some conservative ideologues who just can't stand that the USPS demonstrates government doing its job of helping make our lives better. As with Social Security, they attack it relentlessly and endlessly.
Perhaps you’ve noticed there are fewer post offices around. In the past decade, the United States Postal Service has closed almost 200 facilities nationwide in an aggressive effort to do away with and eventually privatize an institution that is older than the country itself. Included in that number are post offices that used to be on Main Street near St. Vincent’s Hospital and on Stratford Avenue. Like so many, they were closed and not replaced. Those closings have left Bridgeport, a city of 150,000 people, with exactly four post offices.