A conversation on USPS with Jamie Partridge and Gordon Anderson

KPFTOJ

The United States Postal Service(USPS) has existed since 1775 and the first Postmaster General was Benjamin Franklin. The USPS aka the Post Office, delivers over 48% of all the mail in the world; it has a fleet of over 228,000 vehicles; processes and delivers 182 million pieces of first class mail daily (~20M/hour); for $.55 you can send a letter to anywhere in the USA; it employs over 600,000 people (497K career/136K contract ~2019), generates $236M in revenue per day and costs the American taxpayer ZERO $.
Gordon Anderson is a retired postal worker with 37 years as a letter carrier in Houston, Texas and served 10 years here as union representative in NALC- National Association of Letters Carriers, Local 283, with the aim of upholding the rights of letter carriers who were at times subject to management injustices. Gordon is currently the host of the Black on Both Sides radio program, airing every Friday from noon until 2:00pm on KPFT-HD2. His show primarily focuses on issues impacting diaspora Blacks from a Pan Africanist perspective.
Jamie Partridge is a retired letter carrier from Portland, Oregon. He is an organizer with CPWU - Communities and Postal Workers United, a national network of local coalitions to save the postal service (cpwunited.com), a member of Rank and File Postal Organizers, a national network organizing to save the postal service during the pandemic (FB: Save Our Postal Service)
In the past, he served as shop steward, editor, organizing chair, and political director, NALC -National Association of Letter Carriers, branch 82. He is currently on the local union executive board.