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Market Watch: Post offices could give low-income Americans access to financial services

USPS Responds to Mailers Op-ed - Response to The Hill op-ed on PRC 10-year review

Linn's Stamp News: U.S. Postal Service pushing PRC to lift 10-year cap on stamp price increases

WTVR.com: Cluster boxes - Neighbor disgruntled that nearby home gets mail deliver, but they don’t

The Street: Amazon Gives First Sneak Peek of Its U.S. Drone Delivery Service

Huffington Post: Bernie Sanders, Top Progressives Announce New ‘Medicare For All’ Push

CNN Money: U.S. workers face higher risk of being replaced by robots. Here’s why.

PostCom: PRC Press Release: Leaders in Mailing Organizations Call for Balanced Approach to Postal Rates

Post & Parcel: Transport companies and carriers lead USPS suppliers list

Memphis Daily News: FedEx Falls Short of Q3 Profit Forecasts 

Federal News Radio: House Committee declares ‘big day’ for postal reform

The Hill: House panel approves Postal Service finances legislation

Postmasters: House Oversight & Government Reform Committee Approves Postal Reform Bill

In These Times: Republicans Are Racing To Make Workplaces More Dangerous and Unhealthy

Norway:Posten denies its truckers are ‘slaves’ 

Finnish post office to start beer deliveries

Trucks.com: How Reforms Could Turn U.S. Postal Service Into Threat for UPS and FedEx

Tech News World: Autonomous Delivery Robots to Hit Virginia’s Streets
 

USA Today: Letter to Editor by Fredric Rolando Things aren’t that bad for the Postal Service: You Say
 

People's World:Women take to the streets again to tackle the Trump agenda
 

CNN: Trump meets with union president amid conflict over health care
 

Washington Post: Senate votes to kill worker safety rule aimed at federal contractors
 

The Atlantic: The Future of the Department of Labor Under Trump
 

Wired UK: How an army of postmen is turning China's rural stores into the world's largest retail network

USA Today: Debt-plagued U.S. Postal Service eyes bipartisan bill to solve woes 
 

The Hill: Op-ed by Hamilton Davison, President of American Catalog Mailers Association – Postal reform measure can make a difference
 

NW News: Passion for the Post Office: Two Employees on Why They Love What They Do
 

Bloomberg BNA: Acosta Labor Department May Go Light on Litigation 
 

Dead Tree Edition: Turnover Rising Among Non-Career Postal Workers

NL Times: Dutch Postal Service to Cut Another 2,000 jobs

Korea Times: Koreans being overworked to death in 'kwarosa'
 

CBC News: Cheques with your stamps? Unions call for postal banking in rural communities
 

ECommerce Bytes: eBay Creates Petition to Keep Postage Prices Low
“eBay is urging users to sign its petition requesting the Postal Regulatory Commission not to raise shipping costs. eBay sent an email this week to members of its Main Street grassroots lobbying program with the title, ‘eBay Says Keep USPS Prices Low.’ Why is the Postal Regulatory Commission reviewing postage rates? It's the law, as the USPS explained in a post this week. In the petition, eBay tells the PRC that the USPS is a ‘key package delivery service’ for eBay's top sellers, and says higher postage results in abandoned online shopping carts…”

ECommerce Bytes: USPS Explains the Postage Pricing Review
“The PRC is reviewing the system used to regulate Postal Service rates and classes. When PMG Megan J. Brennan testified this month about postal reform legislation, she discussed the importance of a 10-year pricing review being conducted by the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC)… The goal is to determine if the current system is meeting its objectives, which include enabling USPS to be financially stable and ensuring the organization has adequate resources to offer high-quality services…”

ABC News: UPS tests out drone delivery service
“FORT MYERS - Keep your eyes to the sky because one more shipping giant is setting its sights on delivery by drone. UPS on Monday tested new drone delivery technology in Florida. Fort Myers is home to a large service center for UPS customers, and ABC7 wanted to know how residents feel about the new technology. Delivery via drone is already a reality for retailers like Amazon, but now UPS is jumping on the bandwagon and is close to perfecting the technology to get packages to your doorstep with a drone…”

Postal News: Utilimaster pulls out of USPS Next Generation Delivery Vehicle Program as body builder
“Spartan Motors, Inc., a global leader in specialty chassis and vehicle design, manufacturing and assembly, today announced that its Spartan Fleet Vehicles and Services (FVS) business unit — which encompasses the Utilimaster go-to-market brand — has stopped development on the United States Postal Service (USPS) Next Generation Delivery Vehicle (NGDV) Program as a prime contractor in the functional prototype development project and has sought withdrawal from the USPS. Spartan is continuing efforts to support this project and will partner with a leading USPS prototype award participant, to provide interior cargo solutions specific for the USPS’s needs…”

Go Local Prov: Weiss: Overhauling Social Security & Medicare Gets ‘Thumbs Down’ in Recent Poll Findings
“Nancy Olumekor, Retiree Department American Postal Workers Union, came calling for Congressional support to improve Social Security and Medicare.  ‘Our members did not vote to destroy Social Security and Medicare to replace them with vouchers. Postal workers are opposed to increasing the eligibility age for Medicare and Social Security,’ she said.”