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| Previously in 'POSTAL FACTS' |
| Congressional mandate behind Postal Service woes. A letter from NALC President Fredric Rolando to the editor of USA Today was published in the paper's Friday, Feb. 17 edition. |
Fix the Postal Service. President Rolando explained to readers of the Feb. 7 St. Louis Post-Dispatch what's wrong with a deeply flawed Senate bill designed to "save" the USPS. And The Nation's John Nichols finds one thing wrong with the diagnosis that the Postal Service is broke: "It's wrong." |
Why all of the hate now
toward employee unions? "When did 'unions' become a dirty word?" asked Mobile, AL Branch 469 President Atrisha Looney in her Feb. 3 letter to the editor of the Press-Register. |
Cutting services won’t save
our vital U.S. Postal Service.
Seattle Branch 79 President Jo Ann Pyle spells out the problems with the Postal Service's cost-cutting plans on the Washington State AFL-CIO's news website, and retired Auburn, ME Branch 345 member Bert Godin's letter to the editor was publichse in the Lewiston, ME Sun-Journal. |
| Don’t send the Postal Service into a death spiral. President Rolando's commentary in the Sunday, Jan. 15 Press-Enterprise—in Rep. Darrell Issa's district—provided a compelling argument about why the congressman's efforts would serve to destroy the USPS. Also, a story in that Sunday's Springfield News-Leader played up some opposition to ending six-day delivery. |
The truth about the U.S. Postal Service. Lawrence, MA Br. 212 Vice President Kevin Poe's letter to the editor of the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune ran Jan. 8. |
Letter carrier delivers couple
from burning home. On Jan. 4, letter carrier Jason Dang was delivering mail when he suddenly found himself pressed into action after a house caught fire on his Rye Brook, NY, route. |
Issa misleads on Postal Service. NALC President Rolando contributed an op-ed to The Orange County Register, one of California's largest newspapers and one of the top regional papers in the country, on Thursday, Dec. 29. It rebuts Rep. Darrell Issa's recent commentary piece on the Postal Service and takes on his legislative activities. |
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