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June 18 letters to the editor
Post Office drive-by boxes disappearing It simply disappeared. Have you noticed the drive-by post box at the Morgantown-Dellslow Post Office is gone? I asked the postmistresses […]
Why I like public schools and, for that matter, the Post Office
by John M. Crisp I like public schools for the same reason that William Faulkner hated the Post Office. Before Faulkner became the great Southern novelist, he […]
Repair of the USPS is within reach
by Max B. Sawicky Fixing a sabotaged institution is not always easy. In the case of the Postal Service, relief is imminent. The Postal Service Reform Act […]
Congress may rescue USPS from itself
by Timothy L. O’Brien The U.S. Postal Service is dysfunctional, timeworn, and hemorrhages billions of dollars a year. It’s also an essential operation that still knits communities […]
Stamp out the U.S. Postal Service
It is a metaphor for what is occurring at seemingly all levels of our country and culture. The United States Postal Service (USPS) has announced it will […]
Postal service about to get slower and more expensive
by Michael Hiltzik Is there a federal official more out of step with the purposes of his agency than Postmaster General Louis DeJoy? Sorry, that’s a rhetorical […]
DeJoy plan will hurt small, already struggling papers
At the end of August, the next phase of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s plan to overhaul (read: destroy) the U.S. Postal Service will take effect. In this […]
Bill would help USPS take a step toward sustainability
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators have introduced a bill to begin reforming the beleaguered United States Postal Service which is being financially crushed by retirement expenditures […]
Banking at post offices worked in the past and could work now, too
It’s been obvious for some time that the U.S. Postal Service is ailing. And as the country tries to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and the economic […]
