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POST OFFICES REOPEN IN TECATE, POTRERO AND DULZURA AFTER BORDER FIRE

East County News Service

September 3, 2022 (San Diego’s East County) – The Tecate, Potrero and Dulzura Post Offices have all been reopened and have resumed operations at their facilities. 


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POSTAL WORKER DIES AFTER MEDICAL ISSUE, CRASH IN SPRING VALLEY

East County News Service
Photo: Postal Truck in Motion CC via Bing
 
April 8, 2020 (Spring Valley) – A U.S. Postal Service driver suffered a medical issue while driving a mail van on Jamacha Blvd. west of La Presa Avenue yesterday at 11:10 a.m.  The incapacitated driver, 50, veered off the roadway and struck a parked vehicle, then hit the front of a liquor store.
 
The postal worker was transported by ambulance to Grossmont Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Officer Jeff Christy with the California Highway Patrol reports The driver’s name has not been released pending notification of family.
 

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WILL THE POST OFFICE BE DISMANTLED?

 

 

Overnight mail service ends; privatization push triggers boycott of Staples

By Hayden Parsley

Miriam Raftery also  contributed to this report.

Click here to hear our radio interview with Tom Wood and Eddie B. Cooper Jr. with the American Postal Workers Union Local 197 in San Diego.

January 9, 2015 (San Diego) – Many Americans are shocked to learn that effective January 5th, the U.S. Postal Service has stopped all overnight deliveries. Nationwide, 82 mail processing plants are closing, hours have been cut at Post Offices, and patrons are being steered toward competitors such as Staples, triggering a backlash in the form of a Staples boycott.

It’s all part of an effort by conservatives in Congress to slow down, outsource and privatize postal services—a move that could ultimately lead to the demise of the Post Office completely. That could mean price hikes for stamps and delivery services, lay-offs for workers, inconveniences and new costs for businesses, as well as potential cuts in delivery for rural residents.  That’s concerning for those reliant on mail deliveries of vital items such as prescription medications.


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U.S. POSTAL SERVICE DROPS SATURDAY DELIVERY

Congresswoman Davis questions legality of action

February 6, 2013 (Washington D.C.) – The U.S. Postal Service has announced plans to end Saturday mail delivery as a cost-saving measure. 

The announcement drew swift criticism from Congresswoman Susan Davis, who also noted that since Congress mandated Saturday delivery, eliminating it should require Congressional action.


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THIEVES WANT YOUR MAIL

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service offers these tips to help prevent mail theft

 
November 5, 2011 (San Diego)  - The most likely times for mail theft to occur are around November 15, then again between December 1 and the Christmas holiday season.  How can you foil these grinches from stealing your holiday cheer?
 
  

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READER’S EDITORIAL: THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE: NECESSITY FOR THE NATION

By Bonnie Burns Price, Ph.D.

 
 
“Is it possible that Congress is trying to put the USPS out of business, so FedEx and UPS can overcharge the citizenry for privatized service?... Do you want rural post offices that are the center of regional communities to go out of business because they are not profitable for the private delivery services? Do you want to pay high cost, non-union, private contractors $10 to deliver a letter because it’s being sent to a remote, rural area, if it can be delivered at all? ” – Bonnie Burns


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