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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 [...]

Much like the APWU and similar advocates in the United States, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has long-campaigned for an expansion of postal financial services in Canada. Expanding [...]

Addressing the APWU’s 26th Biennial National Convention in August, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14) lauded the progress our Campaign for Postal Banking has made in getting [...]

In a July 21 hearing before the House Financial Service Committee, lawmakers debated the merits of an updated version of the Banking For All Act we mentioned in the in the July/August edition of [...]

Members of Congress are making waves in the fight to win postal banking in the United States. As they did in the last Congress, Representatives Bill Pascrell (D-NJ-09), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09) and [...]

Since the launch of the Postal Banking campaign, one of our biggest allies has been Take on Wall Street. The organization is a major supporter of postal banking and of the APWU’s fight to Save [...]

In late 2019, California passed a landmark public banking bill that allowed for the creation of public banks at the county and municipal levels across the Golden State. That law, known as AB 857, [...]