Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) led an effort sending a letter to the United States Postal Service Board of Governors questioning Postmaster General DeJoy’s leadership, which has resulted in unsustainable rate hikes and poor service.
On April 16, the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a postal hearing, “Oversight of the United States Postal Service,” which highlighted significant postal service problems, particularly service delivery, that affect our members’ ability to deliver timely news and information to their subscribers.
Maine has enacted stronger anti-SLAPP protections after passing a statute based on the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (UPEPA), a model statute that provides some of the strongest protections against meritless claims designed to chill free speech.
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is proposing further postal rate increases of close to 10%, on top of increases already implemented earlier this year. The News/Media Alliance is calling on Congress to question the Delivering for America Plan, which is costing billions of dollars.
The U.S. Postal Service filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) on April 9 of price changes for market-dominant mail to take effect July 14, 2024.
The U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is holding a postal hearing, “Oversight of the United States Postal Service” on Tuesday, April 16th at 10 am.
Congressmen Emanual Cleaver (D-MO) and Jake LaTurner (R-KS) were honored with the second annual “Benjamin Franklin Award for Distinguished Leadership in Postal Policy.”
The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) issued its Annual Compliance Determination Report on March 28 for Fiscal Year 2023.
Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy on March 18 calling on the Postal Service to pause its overhaul of the network transformation due to impacts it is having on mail delivery.
On March 22, the News/Media Alliance joined an amicus brief in support of Hachette in Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive, concerning Internet Archive’s digitizing of copyright protected books and the making those books available to the public for free without authorization.
