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A new presidential administration always spells change. This year, advocates of postal banking are on the lookout for changes to federal regulation that would make it easier for big banks and [...]

Our public schools, just like our public Postal Service, should operate as a public service, to educate and develop the country’s children, and not as another cash cow to enrich Wall Street [...]

In the 1970s, something happened to the American economy that many people failed to appreciate at the time. After decades of strong and growing labor power, a burgeoning consumers’ protection [...]

The American Postal Worker recently spoke with Cornelia Berger, the Head of Post and Logistics for Uni Global Union, about the role postal banking plays in other countries.  The US had a postal [...]

In previous editions of this column, we have examined one simple way to enact nationwide postal banking in this country. By partnering with the Federal Reserve, which already functions as the [...]

A sharp drop in the number of bank branches across the country is causing alarm among community advocates. Most banks have been closing branches since 2007 In the wake of the Great Financial [...]

A new report is out making the case for postal banking and calling on postal management to make the investments necessary to make quality postal financial services available to the millions of [...]

The recent bank crisis set off by the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank has exposed a reality about how U.S. banking really works. The system’s very existence — for example, [...]

In September 2021, we announced that the Postal Service and the APWU had partnered on a limited proof-of-concept test of expanded financial services in a few post offices. The early stage of the [...]

Since 2009, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has produced a biennial report surveying the unbanked and underbanked population of the United States. Their most recent report, which [...]