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...Collective bargaining arrangements have not yet proved a panacea to difficult disputes in the rail and postal sectors....
...The US Postal Service said it expected to handle between 850m and 950m packages this holiday season....
...Meanwhile, the summer of discontent among the UK workforce continued to grow as Royal Mail postal staff announced what could be the biggest strike of the summer so far....
...Such a move “could change the landscape of a sector long dominated by FedEx, UPS, and USPS”....
...Democrats have accused him of deliberately trying to hamper the USPS to make sure it does not deliver postal votes in time for the election....
...Emails obtained by the union, via a freedom of information request, showed the US Postal Service had been pressured by Amazon to “move quickly” ahead of the vote....
...Soon after, the USPS began racking up heavy losses and significant debt....
...House Democrats accused US postmaster-general Louis DeJoy of presiding over a rapid deterioration of the US Postal Service that threatens to disrupt businesses, the delivery of critical items and even the...
...Katherine Muth of the US-based International Mailers Advisory Group said the USPS raised its inbound rates on average by about 50 per cent, causing a “huge drop-off in volume on inbound parcels”, especially...
...Mr Meadows called on Democrats to negotiate funding for the USPS, which is facing budget shortfalls....
...“Everyone depends on the USPS,” Barack Obama, the former Democratic president, tweeted on Friday....
...Robert Duncan, chairman of the USPS board of governors, will also appear at the hearing....
...“We need to keep our eyes on DeJoy so he keeps his promise & doesn’t find new ways to dismantle the USPS,” Ms Warren wrote on Twitter. “I’ll be watching DeJoy’s actions — not just his words.”...
...“Everyone depends on the USPS,” Mr Obama, the former Democratic president, tweeted....
...The “Inverted Jenny” US aircraft stamp escaped the efforts of postal inspectors to reclaim the misprinted sheet of 100. These narratives impart more value than the histories of ordinary stamps....
...“Trump admitted this morning that he is sabotaging the USPS to stop people from voting safely by mail during a deadly pandemic,” Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2016 election to Mr Trump, tweeted on Thursday...
...Yet Louis DeJoy, the recently appointed postmaster general, who runs the USPS, is taking steps to make postal voting harder....
...The post office’s inspector-general is examining Mr DeJoy’s policy changes and compliance with federal ethics laws....
...Israel and the United Arab Emirates have reached a historic peace deal, Donald Trump has threatened to deprive the US post office of money needed for postal voting in November’s presidential race, and Wells...
...As a result, the USPS has also been a target of litigation....
...The inspectors-general of the state department, the Pentagon and the intelligence community, who watch out for fraud and abuse, were fired....
...Not only is there a demonstrated problem with Japan’s system of postal ballots, the country’s in-person voting is archaic....
...And for Nasr, a strong, experienced point of view is a magazine’s USP in the age of the influencer and Instagram....
...We’re too fast for the customs inspectors to see, so we’re not going to be subject to chocolate orange antidumping duties, Lego import licences, product-specific rules of origin for Frozen 2 lunch boxes...
...Mr Bannon, 66, one of the architects of Mr Trump’s 2016 election victory and a champion of nationalist leaders around the world, was arrested by postal inspectors on Thursday morning along with three others...
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