Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Campaign to Dismantle the Post Office
Guest Post by Steve Hutkins a literature professor who teaches “place studies” at the Gallatin School of New York University. This is Part 1 in a series of 3 articles as written by Steve Hutkins in...
View ArticleCivil Disobedience and the Mailman
Reposted from Save The Post Office edited and administered by Steve Hutkins, a literature professor who teaches “place studies” at the Gallatin School of New York University. run75441: Tampa Bay News...
View ArticleFake News, Flawed Analysis, and Bogus Tweets
From time to time, Angry Bear has featured Steve Hutkins, (Save The Post Office Blog) and Mark Jamison’s (retired NC Postmaster) commentary on the efforts of various political and commercial interests...
View ArticleAsking the Wrong Questions: Reflections on Amazon, the Post Office, and the...
The author of this post which was published in April 2018 on Save The Post Office is Mark Jamison, a retired North Carolina Post Master. From time to time, I have featured both Marks and Steve’s post...
View ArticleHow to Privatize the Post Office: Piece by piece, step by step
Steve Hutkins, a literature professor who teaches “place studies” at the Gallatin School of New York University. A few days ago, the Trump administration announced that one of its goals is to privatize...
View ArticleUSPS Update on Court Cases
Steve Hutkins at Save the Post Office Another federal court has ruled against the Postal Service. The United States Postal Service is now 0 for 6. In the case of Richardson v Trump, Judge Emmet...
View ArticleDeJoy’s 57 Varieties of Cost Cutting: What’s in the new OIG report—and what’s...
Steve Hutkins at Save The Post Office, October 26, 2020 In response to several inquiries from members of Congress, the Office of Inspector General has issued a report on “Operational Changes to Mail...
View ArticleStop Girdling the Post Office
Mark Jamison, Retired NC Postmaster at Save the Post Office, October 29, 2020 In forestry the practice of tree girdling is well known. Although there are some circumstances where this can be a useful...
View ArticleVoting by Mail and the Next Election Meltdown – A Prophecy
Steve Hutkins at Save The Post Office, October 31, 2020 This post was written in 2016 and slightly updated on Oct. 31, 2018, exactly two years ago today. The update started like this: According to this...
View ArticleUSPS Court Case Updates – Election Ballot Delays
Steve Hutkins on-line live blogging at Save the Post Office has been updating the progress of the “Lawsuits against DeJoy, USPS & Trump with relation to mail delays and election mail. This is the...
View ArticleProcessing Center Percentages are “Not” On Time Delivery Percentages
Steve Hutkins of Save the Post Office has been live blogging and providing updates to the 12 federal district court cases filed. In the November 6, 2020 Update Steve discusses the delivery updates...
View ArticleHow the Pandemic could lead to a big USPS price hike
Angry Bear has been featuring the words of Steve Hutkins and Mark Jamison for a good bit of time now. They are the go-to people outside of the USPS on issues associated with it and the Congress which...
View ArticleThe Explanation for the 2020 Mail Delay? Louis DeJoy
Steve Hutkins at Save The Post Office, The 2020 Mail Delays: Stats & Charts Preface The inventor of MRPII, Oliver Wight, coined a term for management deliberately obstructing the implementation of...
View ArticleBack to the Future: The USPS, PRC, and Mailers revisit the meaning of PAEA
Steve Hutkins at Save the Post Office Continued discussions between the mailers who are faced with higher rates, PMG Louis DeJoy, and Congress. The mailers are in court as we read Steve’s excellent...
View ArticleThe Postal Service wants to slow down the mail, Congress says not so fast
Steve Hutkins at Save The Post Office continues his dialogue on planned changes to USPS operations with one change amongst the others resulting in later deliveries of first class mail. The Washington...
View Article51st anniversary of the largest wildcat strike in U.S. labor history
Steve Hutkins: This week marks the 51st anniversary of the largest wildcat strike in U.S. labor history: The Great Postal Strike of 1970 March 18th marks the day fifty-one years ago when postal workers...
View Article“Save the Post Office” launches new Service Performance Dashboard
Save The Post Office‘s, Steve Hutkins With all the attention to delivery delays over the past several months and the Postmaster General’s plans to relax delivery standards — as well as calls for more...
View ArticleSave The Post Office’s Service Performance Dashboard
Steve Hutkins at Save The Post Office Save The Post Office’s Service Performance Dashboard provides easier access to recent performance reports shared by the Postal Service with the Postal Regulatory...
View ArticleWhat the USPS 10-year plan may have to say about future rate increases
Steve Hutkins at Save The Post Office continues with the documentation of issues and occurrences at the USPO. Steve presents a good take-down of what DeJoy’s plan is going forward. He is predicting a...
View ArticleNew dashboard on the PRC Advisory Opinion on the change in service standards
Steve Hutkins from Save the Post Office. As you can see, postal service delivery would lengthen from a maximum of 3 – day delivery to 4 and 5-day delivery service for First Class mail and Periodicals....
View ArticleUSPS proposal Reduces service standards Causing “undue discrimination”
Steve Hutkins from Save The Post Office, “Why the USPS proposal to reduce service standards will cause “undue discrimination” The Postal Service’s plan to reduce service standards is now being reviewed...
View ArticlePostal Service Reform May Slow Delivery of the Mail
Steve Hutkins at Save The Post Office, “How the postal reform bill may help the Postal Service slow down the mail” In August 1970, Title 39, aka the Postal Reorganization Act, created the Postal...
View ArticleReply to the USPS: The new service standards will cause geographic...
Steve Hutkins at Save the Post Office, “Reply to the USPS: How the new service standards will cause geographic discrimination” The Postal Service’s plan to reduce service standards is now being...
View ArticlePost Offices Under Suspension
What happens when the USPS decides to close a Post Office? The closure does not happen over night. A Post Office may close immediately due to an emergency, a suspended lease, less business over time,...
View ArticleRationale for a Post Office Suspension Dashboard: Comments for the PRC’s...
In the commentary, Steve Hutkins is addressing is Post Office Suspension of operations. In this case, there are 454 Post Offices in suspension with no resolution. Some Suspensions have been as long as...
View ArticleThe Postal Service identifies 170 “suspended” post offices for permanent closure
To Be Discontinued: The Postal Service identifies 170 suspended post offices for permanent closure, Save The Post Office, Steve Hutkins Earlier this week the Postal Service shared a list with the...
View ArticleModeling the New USPS Delivery Network: List & Map
In an earlier post, Steve Hutkins introduced Louis DeJoy’s new plan centralizing post offices in various locations calling them Sorting and Delivery Centers. Many mail delivery personnel routes would...
View ArticlePostal workers and allies to protest DeJoy’s Ten-Year Plan
“Postal workers and allies to protest DeJoy’s Ten-Year Plan at BOG meeting, Save the Post Office, Steve Hutkins I missed this announcement at Steve Hutkins “Save The Post Office” blog. Apparently a...
View ArticleIs Biden still considering appointing two new postal governors?
I have been negligent and have not followed up on Steve Hutkin’s “Save The Post Office” commentaries. There is a lot going on at the USPS. Appointing two new postal governors to the USPS board is an...
View ArticleWhat’s fair is fair: The PRC issues a final order on the “appropriate share”...
What’s fair is fair: The PRC issues a final order on the “appropriate share” issue, Save the Post Office, Steve Hutkins Another one of the posts by Steve Hutkins about the USPS. The effort by...
View ArticleNew USPS Plan, rather than reducing transportations costs, it will drive them...
The USPS Eagle spins S&DCs to postal employees, Save the Post Office, Steve Hutkins The cover story of the new issue of the Postal Service’s Eagle Magazine is “Re-Thinking Local Delivery.” It’s...
View ArticleThe USPS Eagle spins S&DCs to Postal Employees
Traditional USPS supporter at Save the Post Office, Steve Hutkins presents the latest information about the reorganization of the USPS. We had let off where President Joe Biden has/had a chance to...
View ArticleGAO: EV Infrastructure: USPS Plan for Potential Workplace Charging
GAO: Electric Vehicle Infrastructure: USPS Should Plan for Potential Workplace Charging – Save the Post Office Introduction Part of the plan as referred to in Steve Hutkins’ “EVs and S&DCs: USPS...
View ArticleDespite Potential to Electrify 90 Percent of Routes, USPS Still Plans to...
I came across this article on Steve Hutkins’ “Save the Post Office.” There has been a political effort to redefine the USPS into more of a business model and something it was never meant to be. Right...
View ArticleUSPS implementation of the Delivering for America plan Status
I have followed Steve Hutkins and retired Postmaster Mark Jamison for years now. Both Mark and I have had conversations both on and off Angry Bear. It appears we are nearing the end of the reconstruct...
View ArticleUSPS tells regulator, “Mind your own regs”
USPS tells regulator, “Mind your own regulations.” Save the Post Office, Steve Hutkins The Postal Service has started off the New Year by refusing to answer important questions about its 10-year plan,...
View ArticleUSPS tells regulator, “mind your own regulations”
This has been going on several years now and Angry Bear has been featuring Steve Hutkins from Save The Post Office and also former North Carolina Postmaster Mark Jamison. The battle goes on as big...
View ArticleThe mail slows down, again
A pretty damning report detailing Louis DeJoy’s program’s failure to replicate mail delivery or improve mail delivery which was the goal. The mail slows down, again, Save The Post Office, Steve Hutkins...
View ArticleUSPS Optimized Collections – The threat to election mail and other risks
I have noticed Angry Bear picks up many readers when it features commentary by Steve Hutkins from “Save The Post Office.” Steve Hutkins, Mark Jamison, Save The Post Office and I go back a number of...
View ArticleThe USPS Network Consolidation Plan: What’s at Stake for Southern Oregon
The USPS Network Consolidation Plan: What’s at Stake for Southern Oregon, Save the Post Office, Steve Hutkins In 2023, two years into the 10-year plan, USPS reported that the agency had committed $7.6...
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