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APWU Launches ‘Protect Our Public Postal Service’ Drive

July 16, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. , , ,
Detroit—At one point, the Postal Service closed 10 of  11 local postal retail locations in Detroit. But then the Postal Workers (APWU) mobilized the city’s businesses and residents, picked up political support, and got the decisions reversed, says James Stevenson, a postal clerk and the union’s National Business Agent for Michigan, Illinois, and surrounding states. ‘It’s a grassroots campaign, boots on the ground,” Stevenson told union Executive Vice President Debby Szeredy at a July 14 planning session for the union’s larger “Protect Our Public Postal Service” drive. And the Detroiters won.

USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program

October 12, 2021 David Dayen, The American Prospect. , , ,
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has taken the most dramatic step in a half-century to re-establish a postal banking system in America. In four pilot cities, customers can now cash payroll or business checks of up to $500 at post office locations, and have the money put onto a single-use gift card. It’s the most far-reaching executive action that the Biden administration has taken since Inauguration Day. The move puts the USPS in direct competition with the multibillion-dollar check-cashing industry, which operates storefronts to allow unbanked or underbanked residents to cash their paychecks. According to USPS spokesperson Tatiana Roy, the pilot launched on September 13 in four locations: Washington, D.C.; Falls Church, Virginia; Baltimore; and the Bronx, New York.
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