APWU: Management Reducing Package Presort Discounts

Posted on June 15, 2024 by 21cpw

June 14, 2024 The presort discount system, created decades ago, turned over large sections of postal operations to private companies, for private profit. The Postal Service gives companies like Pitney Bowes and other large mailers huge postage discounts, or “corporate welfare,” to presort letters and packages before entering them “downstream” in the postal network. These…

How You’ll Get Screwed If Conservatives Kill the U.S. Postal Service

Posted on May 18, 2014May 18, 2014 by 21cpw

If USPS in its current form ceases to exist, the results will be harsh. May 14, 2014 | On April 24, members of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and other unions held 56 “Stop Staples” demonstrations in 27 different states. The postal workers, carrying signs that read, “The U.S. mail is NOT for sale,”…