Protecting USPS: Occupiers and Union Workers Arrested After Refusing to Leave Post Office Branches In Portland Demonstration

(MintPress) – As talks of closing hundreds of United States Postal Service branches escalated late last year, protests quickly followed. In a sign that the postal service has not become a mere oversight in a growing protest culture, reports over the weekend detailed the arrest of 12 demonstrators at a rally to protect the postal branches […]

Joey LeMay
By Joey LeMay
Tom Richardson, right, from the National Association of Letter Carriers, protest in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

(MintPress) – As talks of closing hundreds of United States Postal Service branches escalated late last year, protests quickly followed. In a sign that the postal service has not become a mere oversight in a growing protest culture, reports over the weekend detailed the arrest of 12 demonstrators at a rally to protect the postal branches across the

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Rural Post Offices To Close

INGOMAR, Mont. (AP) — The top U.S. Postal Service official on Thursday took his case for rural post office closures straight to those it will hurt most, telling residents in Montana’s capital and one of its smallest towns that thousands of post offices nationwide must be shuttered to cut costs. Rural residents answered right back, […]

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe listens to questions on Thursday, April 12, 2012, in the Helena Regional Airport in Helena, Mont., about the direction of the U.S. Postal Service. (AP Photo/The Independent Record, Dylan Brown)

INGOMAR, Mont. (AP) — The top U.S. Postal Service official on Thursday took his case for rural post office closures straight to those it will hurt most, telling residents in Montana's capital and one of its smallest towns that thousands of post offices nationwide must be shuttered to cut costs. Rural residents answered right back, saying cuts

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