One public service that people really like and count on is the post office – which literally delivers for us. Antigovernment ideologues and privatization dogmatists, however, hate the very word “public,” and they’ve long sought to demonize the U.S. Postal Service, undercut its popular support and, finally, dismantle it. Their main line of attack has […]
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Don’t close our post offices
You know what America needs? More jobs, that’s what. Not Wal-Mart-style jobettes, but real jobs – stable ones with good salary and benefits, union jobs so workers have a say in what goes on, jobs that have strong protections against discrimination. A job one can make a career, do useful work in, take pride in, […]
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Potential post office closures delayed until May 2012
The U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday an agreement to postpone for five months numerous potential post office closings, including two in Springfield. The Postal Service previously announced plans to close about 250 postal facilities across the country and eliminate next-day delivery of first-class mail and periodicals. The service must cut $20 billion in operating costs […]
