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Publication Name:First Class: the U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat
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Author:Christopher W. Shaw
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First Class by Christopher W. Shaw, Ralph Nader Investigating the essential role that the postal system plays in American democracy and how the corporate sector has attempted to destroy it. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 2020s presidential election, along with the COVID-19 outbreak, exposed the essential role that the U.S. postal system plays in American society, the electoral process, and our national well-being.The pandemic permanently changed how we work. Many will continue to work from home even after vaccines are distributed.As a result, our dependence on the mail will remain a huge part of daily living. Enormous numbers of people rely on mail to receive stimulus checks, medicine, information, mail ballots and the numerous goods were now ordering. (Online shopping has gone through the roof!)With a major election coming up in 2022, the post office will remain in the news given our continued reliance on mail-in ballots.The book is timely in addressing Bidens policy choices for the U.S. Postal Service.This includes: a discussion about the financial pressures placed on the USPS to maintain universal service; how to preserve the postal infrastructure to protect voting rights; and how to make banking services and the internet more broadly accessible.This book is a natural fit for activist booksellers at independent stores who were passionate about the #BoxedOut campaign and the importance of the USPS to their business.Younger audiences have used social media platforms, such as Tik Tok, to display respectful and playful portrayals of mail carriers. Were seeing this in glossy magazines, as well.Book will appeal to those who celebrate the USPSs egalitarian mission to serve all equally irrespective of race, class, sex, or residency status.The book will appeal to those invested in workers rights and unions. The American Postal Workers Union has endorsed this book and we will work with them to spread awareness about this project.The book was commissioned by Ralph Nader and the Center for Responsive Law as the centerpiece of their forthcoming advocacy and education campaign to save the US postal system, which will be timed to launch in conjunction with the release of the book.Nader & the Center for Responsive Law are sponsoring the mailing of copies to all 535 members of Congress, along with union leaders, media, and influencers. Author Biography Christopher W. Shaw is an author, historian, and policy analyst. He has a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic (University of Chicago Press, 2019) and Preserving the Peoples Post Office(Essential Books, 2006). His research on the history of banking, money, labor, agriculture, social movements, and the postal system has been published in the following academic journals: Journal of Policy History, Journal of Social History, Agricultural History, Enterprise & Society, Kansas History, and Journalism History. Shaw was formerly a project director at the Center for Study of Responsive Law. He has worked on a number of policy issues, including the privatization of government services, health and safety regulations, and electoral reform. He has appeared in such media outlets as the Associated Press, National Public Radio, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, New York Post,Village Voice, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Buffalo News, among others. He lives in Berkeley, CA.Named by The Atlantic as one of the hundred most influential figures in American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the most influential Americans of the twentieth century, Ralph Nader has helped us drive safer cars, eat healthier food, breathe better air, drink cleaner water, and work in safer environments for more than four decades. Nader was instrumental in the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CSPC), and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA). Many lives have been saved by Naders involvement in the recall of millions of unsafe consumer products, including defective motor vehicles, and in the protection of laborers and the environment. By starting dozens of citizen groups, Ralph Nader has created an atmosphere of corporate and governmental accountability. Naders recent books include Breaking Through Power with City Lights, Unstoppable, and The Good Fight. His Animal Envy, A Parable was published by Seven Stories Press in the fall of 2016. Nader writes a syndicated column, has his own radio show, and gives lectures and interviews year round. Table of Contents CONTENTSForeword by Ralph NaderIntroductionCHAPTER 1: PRIVATIZATION- The Postal Monopoly- Service First- Eliminating GovernmentCHAPTER 2: DEREGULATION- Network Industries- Foreign Post Offices- Nineteenth-Century America- Profit as KingCHAPTER 3: DEMOCRACY- Founding Principles- Newspapers and Magazines- Books and Nonprofits- Vote-by-MailCHAPTER 4: COMMUNITY- Heart of the Community- Closing the Hub- Relocation- History and IdentityCHAPTER 5: CUTBACKS- Mail Volume- Cutting Service- Major Mailers- The Great Recession- Service MattersCHAPTER 6: COMPETITORS- Undermining Delivery- Corporate Power- Postal Package Delivery- Auctioning Away TrustCHAPTER 7: WORKERS- Postal Heroes- The Postal Workplace- Rising InequalityCHAPTER 8: GOVERNANCE- Reorganization- Postal Governance- Governance Reform- Post Office Consumer Action GroupCHAPTER 9: The Future- Essenital Infrastructure- Spurring Innovation- Tomorrows Post Offices- Postal Banking- Our Postal CommonwealthNotesIndexAbout the Author Review Praise for First Class:”The United States Postal Service has been targeted for privatization (read: dismantlement) by conservative Republicans for decades. In his new book, Shaw convincingly explains why this would have tragic consequences for the future of democracy itself. … Shaws prose is fresh and accessible, and his arguments are cogent and convincing. Reading this book will give readers a new appreciation for the value of the humble post office.”—Booklist”Shaws First Class comes at a time when integral institutions are under attack. It is perhaps the most powerful call to save the USPS that this author has ever seen. The book is about what many might consider a mundane subject (postage) but is a crucial read for anyone interested in fighting for democracy, decency, and egalitarianism.”—Countercurrents”Selling off valuable properties, buildings that the taxpayers paid for, is just one of the ways corporate interests and political ideologues are dismantling the Postal Service, Christopher W. Shaw argues in First Class. The push to take the Postal Service from public to private hands is steady and unrelenting and has serious implications for democracy. … Shaw traces the essential role of the Post Office ever since Benjamin Franklin served as the countrys first postmaster general. He details the fights to preserve it and to ensure it remains an essential component of democracy.”—Berkeleyside”Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, First Class is an essential and unreservedly recommended addition to community, college, and university library Political Science and Contemporary Social Issues collections. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, political activists, governmental policy makers, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in protecting our U.S. Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic—the latter especially with specific reference to our postal system.”—Midwest Book Review”The Postal Service is the crown jewel of the American experiment, our most efficient, trusted and beloved public service. With First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat, Christopher Shaw makes a brilliant case for polishing the USPS up and letting it shine in the 21st century.”—John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and author of Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis”First Class is essential reading for all postal workers and for our allies who seek to defend and strengthen our public Postal Service.”—Mark Dimondstein, President, American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO”Christopher Shaw makes the case for the importance of the Postal Service to democracy in the United States. He argues compellingly that we should be looking to rebuild it, rather than tear it down and privatize it.”—Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author of Rigged”The Save the Post Office movement has long needed a definitive manifesto, and now it has one. Christopher Shaws First Class shows how special interests and anti-government, anti-union ideologues have promoted a scarcity myth—the country cant afford a first-class postal system—to justify cost-cutting measures like outsourcing, closing post offices and slowing down the mail. Piece by piece, an essential national infrastructure is being dismantled without our consent. Shaw makes an eloquent case for why the post office is worth saving and why, for the sake of American democracy, it must be saved.”—Steve Hutkins, founder/editor of Save the Post Office and Professor of English at New York University”Christopher W. Shaws First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat makes a passionate but well-argued case for a healthy USPS. Shaw organizes his methodical argument around decades of attacks on the USPS; in doing so, he effectively refutes the flawed (and often anti-democratic) cases for privatization and deregulation. The USPS is essential for a democratic American society; thank goodness we have this new book from Christopher W. Shaw explaining why.”—Danny Caine, author of Save the USPS and owner of the Raven Book Store, Lawrence, KS”Shaws excellent analysis of the Postal Service and its vital role in American Democracy couldnt be more timely. As the current postmaster general is about to implement a ten-year plan that will eliminate all airmail service, greatly reduce delivery times, and cut hours and available services at post offices, it is important to be reminded that a fully functional postal service is essential for elections, for delivery of life-saving medicines, for assistance when communities are dislocated in times of disaster and for rural community identity First Class should serve as a clarion call for Americans to halt the dismantling and to, instead, preserve and enhance the institution that can bind the nation together.”—Ruth Y. Goldway, Retired Chair and Commissioner, U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission, responsible for the Forever Stamp”In gripping detail, Christopher W. Shaws First Class tells you whos trying to sabotage the national treasure that is the U.S. Postal Service and why (hint: corporate greed). Shaws clarion call to protect the postal service explains whats at stake for our communities, our democracy, and our economy. While he celebrates USPS history, Shaws gaze is primarily forward-looking. In a time of community fracture and corporate predation, he argues, a first-class post office of the future can bring communities together and offer exploitation-free banking and other services.”—Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen”Christopher Shaw reveals the U.S. Postal Services historic contributions to the welfare of all Americans, from operating an essential communication and transportation network, to pioneering public banking, to functioning as a linchpin of elections. While the Postal Services enemies assert its inevitable demise, Shaw presents hope for a rejuvenated public service that plays an integral part of a democratic future.”—RoseAnn DeMoro, former Executive Director of National Nurses United”Democracy in action … government that literally delivers … a service that puts the united in the United States. These arent throw-away cliches—theyre the essence of our U.S. Postal Service. So we must kill it! Thats the perverse intent of a handful of corporate profiteers and their corrupt congressional enablers. How do we stop them and expand the beneficial work of this extraordinary public service? Christopher Shaw shows us the way. Read on … and act!”—Jim Hightower, syndicated columnist and radio commentator Promotional National TV & RADIO CAMPAIGN: C-SPAN Book TV, Democracy Now!, NPR, Alternative Radio, Pacifica Network stations/shows, community and NPR affiliate radio stations around the U.S.PRINT CAMPAIGN: LA Times, NY Times, SF Chronicle, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, New Republic, Wall St Journal, Chicago Tribune, and other major daily newspapers and magazines. Well send to the trades: PW, Kirkus, Library Journal and Booklist.Author will write op-eds targeted to national newspapers.Will pursue first serial and excerpts.ONLINE/SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN: Will pursue review/excerpts/opeds on Shelf Awareness, Tomdispatch, Counterpunch, CommonDreams, and elsewhereConnecting with many of the activist booksellers involved in the “Boxed Out” campaign, who understand the importance of the U.S. Post to independent bookselling.These bookstores include Raven Bookstore (Lawrence, KS), Solid State (Washington, DC), Community Books (Brooklyn), Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn), McNally-Jackson (New York), Book Soup (Los Angeles), and Skylark Books (Columbia, MO)While we already have the American Postal Workers Unions endorsement for the book, we will see how else we can collaborate to further spread the word about this work.Well also reach out to Danny Glover, whose “A Grand Alliance” campaign advocated for the Post Office.DC-based advocacy group Public Citizen has agreed to spread awareness about the book through its Twitter following of 440k and its print magazine, in which it plans to review the book.Working with Ralph Nader on the grassroots campaign to save the Post Office.Endorsements received from the American Postal Workers Union, Jim Hightower, Dean Baker, Lawrence C. Goodwyn, and Steve Hutkins.Also pursuing Danny Caine (Raven Bookstore), Philip F. Rubio, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jill Lepore, Sarah Smarch, Robert Weissman, and Congresspeople outspoken about their desire to save the Post Office, including Tammy Duckworth and Mondaire Jones.Creative marketing ideas include a “stamp” sticker to promote the book and a postcard.Events will include partnerships with groups who depend on the mail, such as artists and zine-makers.Social media campaign: creating memes for places like Twitter or Instagram for the advocacy groups and unions to circulate. Also there is a presence of postal workers on Tiktok which well attempt to utilize. Long Description 2020s presidential election, along with the COVID-19 outbreak, exposed the essential role that the U.S. postal system plays in American society, the electoral process, and our national well-being. The pandemic permanently changed how we work. Many will continue to work from home even after vaccines are distributed. As a result, our dependence on the mail will remain a huge part of daily living. Enormous numbers of people rely on mail to receive stimulus checks, medicine, information, mail ballots and the numerous goods were now ordering. (Online shopping has gone through the roof!) With a major election coming up in 2022, the post office will remain in the news given our continued reliance on mail-in ballots. The book is timely in addressing Bidens policy choices for the U.S. Postal Service. This includes: a discussion about the financial pressures placed on the USPS to maintain universal service; how to preserve the postal infrastructure to protect voting rights; and how to make banking services and the internet more broadly accessible. This book is a natural fit for activist booksellers at independent stores who were passionate about the #BoxedOut campaign and the importance of the USPS to their business. Younger audiences have used social media platforms, such as Tik Tok, to display respectful and playful portrayals of mail carriers. Were seeing this in glossy magazines, as well. Book will appeal to those who celebrate the USPSs egalitarian mission to serve all equally irrespective of race, class, sex, or residency status. The book will appeal to those invested in workers rights and unions. The American Postal Workers Union has endorsed this book and we will work with them to spread awareness about this project. The book was commissioned by Ralph Nader and the Center for Responsive Law as the centerpiece of their forthcoming advocacy and education campaign to save the US postal system, which will be timed to launch in conjunction with the release of the book. Nader & the Center for Responsive Law are sponsoring the mailing of copies to all 535 members of Congress, along with union leaders, media, and influencers. Review Quote Praise for First Class: “The United States Postal Service has been targeted for privatization (read: dismantlement) by conservative Republicans for decades. In his new book, Shaw convincingly explains why this would have tragic consequences for the future of democracy itself. … Shaws prose is fresh and accessible, and his arguments are cogent and convincing. Reading this book will give readers a new appreciation for the value of the humble post office.”–Booklist “The Postal Service is the crown jewel of the American experiment, our most efficient, trusted and beloved public service. With First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat, Christopher Shaw makes a brilliant case for polishing the USPS up and letting it shine in the 21st century.”–John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and author of Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis “Christopher Shaw makes the case for the importance of the Postal Service to democracy in the United States. He argues compellingly that we should be looking to rebuild it, rather than tear it down and privatize it.”–Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author of Rigged “The Save the Post Office movement has long needed a definitive manifesto, and now it has one. Christopher Shaws First Class shows how special interests and anti-government, anti-union ideologues have promoted a scarcity myth–the country cant afford a first-class postal system–to justify cost-cutting measures like outsourcing, closing post offices and slowing down the mail. Piece by piece, an essential national infrastructure is being dismantled without our consent. Shaw makes an eloquent case for why the post office is worth saving and why, for the sake of American democracy, it must be saved.”–Steve Hutkins, founder/editor of Save the Post Office and Professor of English at New York University “Christopher W. Shaws First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat makes a passionate but well-argued case for a healthy USPS. Shaw organizes his methodical argument around decades of attacks on the USPS; in doing so, he effectively refutes the flawed (and often anti-democratic) cases for privatization and deregulation. The USPS is essential for a democratic American society; thank goodness we have this new book from Christopher W. Shaw explaining why.”–Danny Caine, author of Save the USPS and owner of the Raven Book Store, Lawrence, KS “Shaws excellent analysis of the Postal Service and its vital role in American Democracy couldnt be more timely. As the current postmaster general is about to implement a ten-year plan that will eliminate all airmail service, greatly reduce delivery times, and cut hours and available services at post offices, it is important to be reminded that a fully functional postal service is essential for elections, for delivery of life-saving medicines, for assistance when communities are dislocated in times of disaster and for rural community identity First Class should serve as a clarion call for Americans to halt the dismantling and to, instead, preserve and enhance the institution that can bind the nation together.”–Ruth Y. Goldway, Retired Chair and Commissioner, U.S. Postal Regulatory Commission, responsible for the Forever Stamp “In gripping detail, Christopher W. Shaws First Class tells you whos trying to sabotage the national treasure that is the U.S. Postal Service and why (hint: corporate greed). Shaws clarion call to protect the postal service explains whats at stake for our communities, our democracy, and our economy. While he celebrates USPS history, Shaws gaze is primarily forward-looking. In a time of community fracture and corporate predation, he argues, a first-class post office of the future can bring communities together and offer exploitation-free banking and other services.”–Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen “Christopher Shaw reveals the U.S. Postal Services historic contributions to the welfare of all Americans, from operating an essential communication and transportation network, to pioneering public banking, to functioning as a linchpin of elections. While the Postal Services enemies assert its inevitable demise, Shaw presents hope for a rejuvenated public service that plays an integral part of a democratic future.”–RoseAnn DeMoro, former Executive Director of National Nurses United “Democracy in action … government that literally delivers … a service that puts the united in the United States. These arent throw-away cliches–theyre the essence of our U.S. Postal Service. So we must kill it! Thats the perverse intent of a handful of corporate profiteers and their corrupt congressional enablers. How do we stop them and expand the beneficial work of this extraordinary public service? Christopher Shaw shows us the way. Read on … and act!”–Jim Hightower, syndicated columnist and radio commentator Excerpt from Book INTRODUCTION In a vast, diverse nation, the United States Postal Service provides a unique common bond. The familiar footsteps of a uniformed federal employee arriving with the mail. The creak when the handle of the blue mailbox on the street corner is pulled to drop a letter inside. The postal clerk behind the counter whom you have known for years. The ubiquitous eagle profile emblazoned on the side of a mail truck navigating a busy city street. The tunnel-shaped mailbox standing alongside a country road with its red flag raised to signal the need for a collection. These are all part of the everyday experience of being an American in the twenty-first century. For more than two centuries, the U.S. Mail has occupied a central place in our national life. The reliability of the U.S. post office is a hallmark that generations of Americans have depended on and taken for granted. Given this history, there was widespread shock and outrage when events during the summer of 2020 suddenly made the vulnerability of the Postal Service broadly apparent. In the middle of a pandemic, with a fast-approaching presidential election that demanded an unprecedented reliance on vote-by-mail, Louis DeJoy–a major Republican Party donor who had no previous experience at the agency–became postmaster general and launched a cost-cutting program that thoroughly disrupted postal operations. By cutting window hours at post offices, removing mail processing equipment, and uprooting blue mailboxes, DeJoy slowed down mail delivery nationwide. Rallies to “Save the Post Office” arose in cities and towns nationwide. DeJoy was called before Congress to account for what looked like an attempt to dismantle the agency. “After 240 years of patriotic service delivering the mail,” Representative Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.) asked, “how can one person screw this up in just a few weeks? I understand you bring private sector expertise. I guess we couldnt find a government worker who could screw it up this fast.” Like many observers, Lynch concluded that “either through gross incompetence, you have ended the 240-year history of delivering the mail reliably on time, or…youre doing this on purpose…youre deliberately dismantling this once-proud tradition.” The strong reaction both from the public and inside Congress forced DeJoy to halt his plans. This responsiveness to citizen action was an encouraging development, since for years the public has lacked adequate representation when postal policy is determined. While DeJoys policies were unusually severe and startlingly abrupt, they fit a well-established pattern. For decades, corporate interests and anti-government ideologues have sought to transform the Postal Service from a government service that exists to benefit the public into a business that operates to meet financial objectives. Although the Postal Services purpose is to provide universal service at uniform rates to all people in the United States, this objective is under attack because it conflicts with commercial calculations and market imperatives. Anti-government ideologues want to eliminate the public service philosophy and transform the Postal Service into just another profit-maximizing corporation. This aim is one part of their broader campaign to eliminate and privatize government services generally. There are three main categories of corporations that take an active interest in postal policy: major mailers and the Postal Services competitors and contractors. Major mailers–corporations that send out bulk mailings–want low postage costs, which means they deem postal functions that are not directly involved with injecting their mail into mailboxes expendable. The mailers remain wary about privatization because they want to maintain the reach that universal service offers and ensure that mail continues to be delivered. A Postal Service that obeys the commercial logic and calculus of a business is useful because it will privilege what the industry wants over what the public needs. But a postal system operated solely for profit would seek to divert the mailers financial surplus to its own bottom line. Postal delivery and courier services are a source of concern to two of the most powerful corporations in Washington, D.C.–FedEx and UPS. While the both have an ideological bent toward privatization, the prospect of a privatized Postal Service is troubling to them because it would gain new freedom as a business competitor. Corporations in adjacent lines of business are similarly concerned with containing the agency and preventing it from offering additional services. Other corporate interests are eager to see postal functions outsourced so they can acquire these contracts. Such businesses would like to see postal operations privatized piece-by-piece until the Postal Service is privatized in everything but name. Although various pro-corporate interests are not in complete agreement about postal policy, they all are pushing to make the public postal system more “businesslike.” The influence that corporate political interests exert over the Postal Service is extensive, but the agencys official governing authority is the Board of Governors. The president appoints, and the Senate confirms, as many as nine governors to seven-year terms. No more than five of these officials can belong to one political party. The presidentially appointed governors select a postmaster general, who becomes a member of the board as well. This body then picks a deputy postmaster general, who also joins the board. Congress has authority over the Postal Service, but for years has exercised minimal oversight of the agencys operations. Setting postage rates is often the most contentious postal policy issue, and this matter is the Postal Regulatory Commissions responsibility. (Prior to 2007 this body was called the Postal Rate Commission.) Five commissioners who review rate changes are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate for six-year terms. The president selects one of the commissioners to serve as chair. Like the Board of Governors, the Postal Regulatory Commission is designed to be bipartisan: no more than three members can belong to one political party. The questions that postal officials face evolve constantly. Twenty-five years ago, despite the central role the postal system plays in the nations economy and society, the Postal Service has been cash-strapped for its entire existence. Operating under a mandate to be self-funding through the sale of postage ever since the Post Office Department became the United States Postal Service in 1971, the agency has functioned on a hand-to-mouth basis. And the enactment of a 2006 law that instructed the Postal Service to pay $5.5 billion every year for the next decade to pre-fund its future retirees healthcare created severe financial difficulties by converting long-term financial liabilities into short-term ones. No other government agency or private corporation is required to follow such an aggressive payment plan. Congress imposed this requirement to correct $71 billion in overpayments the Postal Service had made to its retirement fund. Yields on the Treasury bonds the fund was invested in had exceeded expectations, and pre-funding would offset the overpayments without increasing the federal budget deficit. But when the economic downturn following the financial crisis of 2008 reduced postal revenues, the onerous pre-funding requirement became a millstone. The daily operations of the Postal Service have maintained a steady cash flow, but the enormous burden created by the pre-funding obligation has impeded the systems capacity to update the sorting and transportation infrastructure required to handle more packages and less mail. At this time, the Postal Service also is in a unique position to make important social contributions by leveraging its existing network to offer new financial and electronic communication services. However, the same 2006 law that imposes the pre-funding mandate restricts the Postal Services ability to explore new services. While accounting concerns have dominated recent discussions of the Postal Services future, our public postal system has existed to serve a larger purpose since its founding. The long-standing mission of the post office to “bind the nation together” by serving all the American people is inherently centered on an egalitarian vision of democracy. The Postal Service is an institution that touches the lives of the entire U.S. population on a daily basis, and it does not discriminate on the basis of race, class, or location. Every U.S. citizen is equal in the eyes of the Postal Service, and all are entitled to receive the same service. This affirmation of the principles of public interest, democracy, and equality makes an unequivocal statement to a diverse population that the national government exists to serve all equally. In First Class, I present an account of the U.S. postal system through the lens of those principles and argue why it is in our collective best interest not just to defend the system, but to strengthen and expand it. As the Post Office approaches 250 years of operation, a moment of decision looms. Instead of allowing big business and idealogues to gut the agencys public service mission and convert the postal system to a for-profit business, we should follow in the footsteps of Philadelphias “Merchant Prince” John Wanamaker who served as postmaster general from 1889 to 1893. Wanamaker was a business innovator who founded one of the first department stores and promoted ideas that became retail basics, such as price tags and money-back guarantees. Yet Wanamaker understood that the Post Office fulfilled a special social function precisely because it was not a business. “It is for the interest of a private company,” he observe Description for Sales People 2020s presidential election, along with the COVID-19 outbreak, exposed the essential role that the U.S. postal system plays in American society, the electoral process, and our national well-being. The pandemic permanently changed how we work. Many will continue to work from home even after vaccines are distributed. As a result, our dependence on the mail will remain a huge part of daily living. Enormous numbers of people rely on mail to receive stimulus checks, medicine, information, mail ballots and the numerous goods were now ordering. (Online shopping has gone through the roof!) With a major election coming up in 2022, the post office will remain in the news given our continued reliance on mail-in ballots. The book is timely in addressing Bidens policy choices for the U.S. Postal Service. This includes: a discussion about the financial pressures placed on the USPS to maintain universal service; how to preserve the postal infrastructure to protect voting rights; and how to make banking services and the internet more broadly accessible. This book is a natural fit for activist booksellers at independent stores who were passionate about the #BoxedOut campaign and the importance of the USPS to their business. Younger audiences have used social media platforms, such as Tik Tok, to display respectful and playful portrayals of mail carriers. Were seeing this in glossy magazines, as well. Book will appeal to those who celebrate the USPSs egalitarian mission to serve all equally irrespective of race, class, sex, or residency status. The book will appeal to those invested in workers rights and unions. The American Postal Workers Union has endorsed this book and we will work with them to spread awareness about this project. The book was commissioned by Ralph Nader and the Center for Responsive Law as the centerpiece of their forthcoming advocacy and education campaign to save the US postal system, which will be timed to launch in conjunction with the release of the book. Nader & the Center for Responsive Law are sponsoring the mailing of copies to all 535 members of Congress, along with union leaders, media, and influencers. Details ISBN087286877X Short Title Stamped Out Publisher City Lights Books Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 087286877X ISBN-13 9780872868779 Format Paperback Imprint City Lights Books Place of Publication Monroe, OR Country of Publication United States Pages 180 Series Open Media Series Author Ralph Nader Illustrations Black and white illustrations Publication Date 2021-12-23 NZ Release Date 2021-12-23 US Release Date 2021-12-23 UK Release Date 2021-12-23 Subtitle The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat DEWEY 383.4973 Audience General AU Release Date 2022-02-14 We’ve got this At The Nile, if you’re looking for it, we’ve got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items – you’re bound to find what you want, at a price you’ll love! TheNile_Item_ID:143170995;
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