post office

The Wholesale Destruction of Our Postal Service Is Already Underway

Jim Hightower / OtherWords Jan 2, 2019 America’s most popular public service literally delivers for its people. Anti-government zealots want to sell it off. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The War on the Post Office

Ellen Brown / Truthdig Mar 16, 2018 The U.S. Postal Service is under attack from a manufactured crisis designed to force its privatization. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Post Office Costs Taxpayers Nothing, and Gives Us So Much in Return

By Jim Hightower / AlterNet Sep 15, 2016 It's time to put a Forever stamp on this public jewel. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Warren’s Post Office Proposal: Palast Aims at the Wrong Target

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Mar 13, 2014 Investigative reporter Greg Palast is usually pretty good at peering behind the rhetoric and seeing what is really going on. But in tearing into Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s support of postal financial services, he has done a serious disservice to the underdogs -- both the underbanked and the U.S. Postal Service itself. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Elizabeth Warren Wants to Save the Post Office by Having It Replace Payday Lenders

Staff / Truthdig Feb 4, 2014 Sen. Elizabeth Warren endorsed a proposal by the United States Postal Service's inspector general over the weekend that could prevent the poor from having to shell out billions of dollars in fees and maybe even save the post office from sinking. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

USPS Drone

Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle Dec 6, 2013 Dig deeper

Nonessential

Clay Bennett / Truthdig Oct 4, 2013 Dig deeper

Stamp Rate Hike

John Darkow, Cagle Cartoons, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri Sep 28, 2013 Dig deeper

A Postal Savings Bank: Infrastructure That Doesn’t Cost Taxpayers a Dime

By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Sep 23, 2013 Necessary banking services the post office performed efficiently in the past, such as infrastructure funding, serving the "underbanked," and providing a safe place to save your money, could be revived with a single legislative stroke. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )