From Environment America (https://environmentamerica.org/): Exciting news! After hearing the call from advocates like you, the U.S. Postal Service is ready to go all electric. The agency’s initial meager commitment to electric vehicles (EVs) sparked advocates to push them to go … Continued
Trump’s Postmaster General Louis DeJoy wants to cut 50,000 Postal Service positions.1 Go to https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/usps-cuts-dejoy here to stop DeJoy. Not only will DeJoy’s plan eliminate 50,000 good union jobs, it’ll also compromise the ability of the Postal Service to carry out … Continued
Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2022-08-01/energy-policy/public-pressure-prompts-usps-to-boost-ev-purchases/a80099-1 August 1, 2022 – Danielle Smith, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window The U.S. Postal Service is buying nearly 85,000 new vehicles and estimates 40% will be electric. Scott Hochberg, attorney at the Center … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): USPS is planning to spend billions of dollars on new, gas-powered delivery trucks. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has announced it will spend $11.3 billion dollars on as many as 148,500 new gas-powered delivery trucks. This plan … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy remains intent on shrinking the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) by outsourcing work and cutting services, and his gross mismanagement has seriously undermined the agency. In EPI’s blog post of … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/09/amid-calls-fire-dejoy-20-state-ags-file-suit-over-plan-sabotage-postal-service “Millions of Americans depend on the mail every day,” said Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. “One political appointee does not get to decide the fate of the Postal Service.” JON QUEALLY October 9, 2021 Twenty state … Continued
From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): Americans, regardless of whether they are from “blue states” or “red states,” are reliant on the Postal Service, particularly in rural regions, to help keep their communities connected, and to help deliver prescriptions … Continued
From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): Postmaster General Louis DeJoy was appointed under the last administration to run the US Postal Service more like a for-profit business than a public good. This resulted in a massive slowdown of the … Continued
From the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epi.org/): We must protect and preserve the Postal Service. We shouldn’t be rolling back the U.S. Postal Service, as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy plans to do. EPI’s Monique Morrissey argues that postal services should be expanded … Continued
Sign the petition to Congress at https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/forms/sign-the-petition-to-congress-save-the-usps-and-provide-services-to-all-pass-the-postal-banking-act: Save the USPS and provide services to all! Pass the Postal Banking Act. It’s time to immediately address attempts to dismantle the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). An immediate step in the right direction, … Continued