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Postal Union Dials Up Pressure on Senators To Give USPS $25B

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 7/22/20

Even as a recent surge in revenues appears to have delayed the potential demise of the U.S. Postal Service by six months, the American Postal Workers Union urged its members to deliver a message—by phone—to Republican U.S. Senators July 23 that the Service's future—and maybe their own politically—depended on their bucking President Trump and voting for $25 billion in aid as part of a new stimulus package. 

They found an eager ally in that push in Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who four days earlier declared that providing that money for both operating assistance and personal protective equipment for the nation's 600,000 postal workers was "a main priority" for the larger economic recovery.

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