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UK postal workers vote for national strike

Workers for Britain's Royal Mail approved a nationwide strike Thursday after months of rolling regional strikes over pay and job security that have caused a massive backlog of undelivered letters and packages.

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Postal Service to customers: We want our stuff back!
Source: The Washington Post

Have you ever swiped pens, tape guns, letter trays or mail tubs from a post office? Well, the U.S.

Postal union workers to stage hundreds of rallies Sept. 27
Source: Articles » peoplesworld

In every congressional district across America postal workers will rally with their allies on Tuesday, September 27 in a fight to save the nation's mail delivery service.

Why postal workers need your support
Source: Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org

An injury to one is an injury to all workers!  A United Popular Front is needed to combat the oligarchical duopoly (aka GOP-Dems). They stink. They smell.

Postal Service Facing Default, Shutdown Without Congressional Intervention | FoxNews.com
Source: FOXNews.com

The rise of email and online bill-paying has steadily eroded its profits over the years while labor costs soar. Donahoe is calling for a host of changes, including the elimination of Saturday delivery, to close a deficit projected to top $9 billion this year.

8 Outrageously Cushy Government Pensions
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The Great Recession has thousands of aging Americans postponing retirement and watching their nest eggs dwindle. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, approximately half of all workers in the United States have saved less than $2,000 for retirement.

Postal Service offering $20,000 buyouts
Source: CNN

The Postal Service is offering a $20,000 buyout to thousands of veteran workers as part of its bid to eliminate 7,500 administrative jobs, the agency announced Thursday. The struggling agency also announced plans to shutter seven district offices.

BREAKING: Koch Bros' Tea Party Plans Wisconsin Protest to Counter Unions on Saturday: AFL-CIO pledges full support for workers; Jesse Jackson to speak at 5 p.m. tonight
Source: newsbusters.org

Tea Party counter protesters will attempt to confront Wisconsin's working people in the state capitol tomorrow in an event being organized by American Majority, "a Tea Party group that trains political activists," according to Newsbusters.

Woman Charged In Puppy-Mailing Attempt
Source: ABC Action News

MINNEAPOLIS - A Minneapolis woman has been charged with animal cruelty after postal workers say she tried to mail a puppy to Atlanta in a sealed box with no air holes.

U.S. Postal Service Replace Own Boxes With One From FedEx?

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREEU.S.

President Obama: Why Are You Allowing Your Postmaster General to Run a Plantation?

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE President Obama: Why Are You Allowing Your Postmaster General to Run a Plantation?

Mass. postal worker admits to stealing 30,000 DVDs
Source: Yahoo! News

A former postal service employee has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 30,000 DVDs that moved through a western Massachusetts post office. Myles Weathers, formerly of Springfield, took DVDs that were mailed by Netflix to customers for a year beginning in January 2007.

Gunman in 1999 LA Jewish center attack says he's sorry
Source: ABC Action News

A white supremacist who killed a postal worker and wounded five people at a Los Angeles area Jewish community center in a 1999 shooting spree says he has renounced his racist views.

Ten postal workers injured by blue chemical powder
Source: The Local - Germany's news in English

Ten Augsburg postal workers were injured on the job by a mysterious blue powder on Tuesday evening. Bavarian police evacuated the building and then found a similar powder on a nearby street.

Michigan postal carrier busted for stashing nearly 10K pieces of mail in locker
Source: NY Daily News

Excerpt: Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night kept her from delivering the mail, but laziness did. Like Newman, the scheming mailman from "Seinfeld," a Michigan postal carrier has been busted for shirking her primary duty.

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