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IG: USPS Underusing Plan Intended to Cut Labor Costs

► 2013 Dreams of Jobs and Freedom Scholarship ◄

Saturday Mail Service Saved for Now, USPS Says

OSHA Proposes $33,000 Penalty for Safety Violations

Why Saturdays Without Mail Can Be Risky

Postal Service Blames Carriers in Traffic Ticket Dispute

Congress to Force Postal Service to Keep Saturday Delivery

How Will Saturday Delivery Changes Affect Businesses?

How the Postal Service Is Being Gutted

Postal Service Stuck in Middle of Budget Battle

Postmaster General Begs Congress for Flexibility in Cost Cuts

Postal Worker Retires After 44 Years Without Sick Day

Postal Service Says It’s Immune from Local Traffic Laws

Postal Service Tries to Get Smarter on Routing

Goodbye Saturday Mail? Postal Service Plans Cuts.

Postal Service Is More Modern than You Think

Postal Service Probed for Travel Expense Waste

Get Ready - The Fight Goes On

Postal Service Fiscal Cliff: Real, and Possibly Unavoidable

Court Finds Netflix Gets Unfair Postal Advantage

US Postal Service Faces Fiscal Cliff

Lawmakers 'Committed' to Postal Reform in New Congress

Think Tank to Study Privatizing Most Postal Service Operations

Guardsman Ordered Reinstated by Postal Service with Back Pay

A New Ad Campaign Won't Save the U.S. Postal Service

The Least Expensive Way to Ship Holiday Gifts

Fewer Holiday Catalogs but Still Plenty in Mail

Postcard Sent in 1943 Finally Arrives

Postal Reform Bill Unlikely to Pass This Year

Twenty Thousand Postal Clerks Take a Buyout

Postal Service Posts Record $16 Billion Loss for 2012

Fifty-Seven Hundred Post Offices under Review,

Hours to Be Reduced at 500 on November 17

No New Buyouts on Postal Service Horizon

Post Office Pension Surplus Shrinks as Rates Fall

Pay Raise Set for November 17

Fletcher Station and Altura Station

now shells of their pasts

NEWS  Postal Service Increasing Prices

NOT NEWS FedEX and UPS Expected to Do the Same

Postal Service Gets Boost from Election

APWU, USPS Negotiate Retirement Incentive

In Times of Tragedy, APWU Members Support Each Other

Postal Service Offers Buyouts to APWU Clerks, Others

The DUO is Now a Do Over

Postal Service to Default Again

Consumers Rate America’s Favorite Services

Eight Reasons USPS Productivity Is Declining

Postal Service Woes Hurt Communities

Ten Things the Postal Service Won't Tell You

More than 4,000 Postmasters Take Buyouts, Early Outs

Postal Service Can't Pay Its Bills

No Rescue for Postal Service as It Defaults on Health Care Benefits

House Bills to Name Post Offices? 60! To Fix Mail Service? 0!

USPS Turns to Buyouts to Cut 28,000 Jobs

Postal Service's Next Deadline: Aug. 1

Postal Plants to Shrink, 28,000 Jobs at Stake by 2014

USPS Saves Colorado’s Rural Post Offices

Postal Service: Will Keep Rural Post Offices Open

Colorado's Rural Post Offices Find Friends in Congress

The Truth About The U.S. Postal Service

Postal Service Closings Could Be Averted by Senate Measure

USPS Closings Making Small Businesses Nervous

Senate Begins Debate on Postal Service Relief Bill

Postal Unions to Take Their Case to Income Tax Filers Tuesday

Postal Service Work Hours at Historic Low Last Year

Postal Service Racks up Big Bill for Unauthorized Overtime

Postal Cutbacks Could Cost $5 Billion

Postal Closures Concern Election Officials, Voters

USPS Pullout: Jeopardize Federal Health Insurance Program

Putting the Postal Service's Losses in Perspective

Postal Service Steers Attention Away from 'Flawed' Revenue Study

Postal Service Defends Salaries as Lawmaker Looks to Cap Pay

Postal Carriers First In Line For Bioterrorism Defense

Senate Takes Up Postal Service Bill

Postal Service Problems a Microcosm of Entire Government

Senate Could Take up Postal Bill Next Week

Postal Service May RIF up to 2,000

Colorado Post Offices See Increase in Marijuana Packages

Postal Service Closing 4 Processing Facilities in Colorado

Postmaster General’s $384,000.00 Pay Sparks Call for Cut

Can the Post Office Be Saved? Should It Be?

Workers Have the Right To Speak Out Against Closures

Commission Faults USPS Planning for Post Office Closures

Postal Service Plant Closures Will Be 'a Mess'

What's the Future of the Postal Service?

First-class Mail Still Matters for Businesses and Consumers

Postal Service Cuts to Slow First-class Mail

USPS Wants to Limit Next-day Service

Thirty-eight Postal Execs Earn More than Cabinet Members

Postal Service Parceling Work to Fewer Letter Carriers

USPS Job Review Program Has Brought Slew of Complaints

$641 Million: The Price of Disgruntled Employees

USPS Workers Paid to Do Nothing? Under 1 Million Hours.

Postal Service to Resume Pension Payments

Senate Committee Approves Postal Buyout Funding Shift

Senators Introduce Postal Legislation

Union: Short-Term Relief, Long-Term Damage

Twisted Government Accounting behind Postal Service Woes

Postal Union Hires Big Guns to Save Service

A Postmaster Goes to War Against His General

Save America’s Postal Service Rally Photos

Customers Fear as Post Office Struggles

Postal Service Could Have Tough Time Making Mass Job Cuts

Post Office Closure Would Shut Town's Community Hub

Postal Service Eyes Closings, Overhaul of Retail Approach

Proposed Closures Spark Anger, Challenge Rural Identity

Citing a poor economy that increased demand for its services, yet made it harder to raise the money necessary to deliver them, Chicago’s Hull House has closed its doors after more than 120 years.

• It's Official: Random Inspections Improve Workplace Safety

• Jumbo Severance Packages for Top CEOs Are Growing

• Costco: The Cheapest, Happiest Company in the World

• Is Wal-Mart Mooching Off Taxpayers to Keep Wages Low?

• Wal-Mart's Low Wages Cost Taxpayers

• The Top 1% Now Controls 39% Of The World's Wealth

• Reuters Editorial: Stinging Indictment Of Wall Street Bankers

• Poor Hit Hardest by Washington Budget Cuts

• CEO Pay Rises to $9.7 Million on Average in 2012

• Higher College Tuition As Administrative Salaries Rise

• Why Bad Bosses Are Bad For Business

• GOP Seeks Alternative to Overtime Pay

• CEO Pay Is More Out of Whack than Ever

• $50M for Getting Fired?

• Penney Spent $170 Million on Johnson Group

• Over 550 Killed, 1,000 Still Missing in Factory Collapse

• Bangladesh Toll 547; Search Becomes More Gruesome

• What Happens When Good Jobs Leave, and Don't Come Back

• Twinkies Showdown Another Blow to Unions

• New Twinkie Maker Shuns Union Labor

• Building Collapse in Bangladesh Kills 87

• Walmart Protests Break Out Following Factory Collapse

• Average Walmart Employee Earns 1/785 of CEO's Salary

• Scott Walker’s Jobs Fraud

• Hospital Opens Food Bank for Struggling Employees

• Minimum Wage Increase: 'A Matter Of Justice'

• Top Reason to Raise the Minimum Wage

• Inequality Threatens 'Global Society'

• Workers Revolt over 2 Minute Bathroom-break Policy

• Flu Season Fuels Debate over Paid Sick Time Laws

• American Airlines Looks For A Fresh Start With New Look

• Following Obama Win, Republicans Eye Electoral College Changes

• How Extreme Is the Business Roundtable?

Check Out Its Attack on the Elderly

• Just When You Thought the Hostess Story Couldn't Get Worse...

• Retired Postal Worker to Government: Take My Money

• More Than 300,000 Millionaires Could Go Off 'Cliff'

• The Real Reason Democrats Want to Raise Taxes on the Rich

• Will Obama Help Unions?

• Majority of Rich Want Themselves Taxed More

• Romney Earns Politifact’s ‘Lie of the Year’

• FedEx Overcharged Customers for Years, Sealed E-Mail Says

• When Unemployment Runs Out

• McDonald's $8.25 Man and $8.75 Million CEO Shows Pay Gap

• Obama: Unions Build a Stronger America

• The AFL-CIO Reacts to the November BLS Jobs Report

• Wal-Mart Strikes Inspires Fast-Food Workers

• Sign Of The Times: Strikes May Make Comeback

• How The Voter ID Crusade Backfired On Republicans

• Vulture Capitalism - Not Unions - Killed Twinkies

• Why We Need Labor Unions After All

• Top Romney Adviser Brags About Losing Poor, Minority Voters

• Nearly 15 Million Households on Food Stamps

• Why the Fiscal Cliff Is like Getting a Huge Paycheck Cut

• Workers' Christmas Wish: Fire the Boss

• The Cost of Cheap Clothes at Wal-Mart, Sears

• FedEx Driver Fired over Accent

• Twenty-one Ways Rich People Think Differently

• Plutocrats: Meet the 0.01%

• GOP-led States Start Warming up to Health Care Law

• Walmart Walkout: 1,000 Strikes Expected in 9-day Period

• Consumer Sentiment Jumps Ahead of Elections

• CEO to Workers: I May Fire You if Obama Wins

• A Tale of 2 US Employment Surveys, at a Glance

• Minimum Wage and What It Buys You: 1950s to Now

• Court Blocks S.C. Voter ID Law for 2012,

But Clears It For the Future

• Walmart Workers Protest For Higher Pay, Job Security

• Walmart Workers Fight for Right to Form Union

• Striking Walmart Workers Make History

• United States of ALEC

• We’re All Makers and Takers

• Court Rules PA Voters Can Cast Regular Ballots without ID

• Congress Posts Member Financial Data on Internet

• Almost 2,400 U.S. Millionaires Pocketed Jobless Benefits

• Where did the mammoth US budget deficits come from?

• Voter Registration Problems Widening in Florida

• The More Americans Benefit from the Safety Net,

the More They Hate It

• What Are American Workers' Biggest Fears?

• One in 3 Workers Bullied at the Office

• Women Face Stubborn Wage Gap

as Wages Fall for Everyone

• Judge Tosses Wisconsin Union Reform:

Why Judges Are Dismantling the GOP Agenda

• Government Job Cuts Killing the Economy?

• Manufacturing Jobs Boom Is for Real

• Median Income Falls, but so Does Poverty

• Why Wages Aren't Rising

• The Wealthy Are 288 Times Richer than You

• World's Richest Woman Lauds $2-a-day Wages

• The Betrayal of the American Dream

• Three Answers to the Auto Bailout Debate

• Companies Boosted Profits without Hiring This Spring

• Report: 15% of Americans on Food Stamps

• Middle Class vs. the 1%: It’s About to Get Really Ugly

• Consumer Sentiment Hits Three-month High

• America's Workers: A Year of Ups and Downs

• The Low-wage Jobs Explosion

• Unions Flex Revived Political Might for Labor Day Weekend

• What Did $800 Billion REALLY Buy the Country?

• Americans Think the Rich Are Smarter, But Greedier

• Pew Study Reveals Real Problem With Economy

• Most Americans Say the Rich Don't Pay Enough Taxes

• Republican Platform: Cut 10% of Workforce, Privatize TSA

• Middle-class Share of America's Income Shrinks

• Many in Middle Class Say They Are Doing Worse Financially

• Two Jobs, Hard Times

• Middle Class Falls Behind

• Striking Caterpillar Workers Approve Contract

• Wal-Mart PR Rep Poses as Reporter, Infiltrates Union Meeting

• Typical CEO Made $9,600,000.00 Last Year

• Poverty Increasing Among Retirees