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Randall Enos, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on May 9, 2013
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Feb 16, 2013
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By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt —
The National Association of Letter Carriers is investigating the possibility of establishing a postal banking system, a time-tested, internationally proven way to maintain profitability that could save the post office.
Posted on Aug 14, 2012
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including congressional action on student loan rates and Glenn Beck trying to profit off of the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling.
Posted on Jun 29, 2012
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The money-losing USPS is offering buyouts to 45,000 mail handlers as it moves to slash its payroll and cut the number of processing centers around the country by nearly half.
Posted on May 26, 2012
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John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune —
Posted on Feb 26, 2012
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
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Facing a shortfall of a few billion dollars, the U.S. Postal Service is planning to drop 220,000 full-time jobs and close 3,700 post offices and 300 processing centers by 2015, while scaling back services and cutting retirement benefits. And that’s after laying off 110,000 employees since 2007. (more)
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The United States Postal Service can’t pay its bills, and management is asking Congress for money and concessions, including eliminating 220,000 jobs. This, despite agreeing in May not to lay off workers. (more)
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Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons, The Denver Post —
Posted on Nov 19, 2010
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RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch —
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After losing about $7 billion this fiscal year, the U.S. Postal Service may shut down as many as 700 local post offices. The postmaster general has also asked Congress to approve cutting deliveries to five days a week.
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Even while pocketing billions in bailouts, the captains of industry who wrecked the world economy sneer at government. Just imagine, they say, if their businesses were run like the post office. “You mean the place that takes a note in my hand in L.A. on Monday and gives it to my sister in New Jersey on Wednesday for 42 cents?”
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Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
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