August 2, 2011
When the P.O.’s Disappear
Historian and former US postal worker Philip Rubio on what we lose when post offices close. Continue Reading When the P.O.’s Disappear
June 8, 2011
Philip Rubio comments on black unemployment & the legacy of segregation
Philip F. Rubio, postal worker-turned-history scholar and author of There’s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality, has recently lent his expertise on race issues in government employment and especially the postal service in two very different but equally fascinating news outlets. In a recent Huffington Post feature, “Black… Continue Reading Philip Rubio comments on black unemployment & the legacy of segregation
November 29, 2010
Philip Rubio hits the airwaves to talk snail mail and the effects of postal cuts on African American postal workers
The U.S. Postal Service faces an $8.5 million budget shortfall this year. NPR is broadcasting a series of stories about cuts in postal services and facilities and the lives and communities already being affected. One person with great insight into the social history of the USPS is Philip Rubio, author of There’s Always Work at the Post Office: African American… Continue Reading Philip Rubio hits the airwaves to talk snail mail and the effects of postal cuts on African American postal workers
April 15, 2010
A Retired Postal Worker’s Tax Day Recollections
From Mississippi to Manhattan, I learned that African American postal workers’ decades-long challenge to the post office and postal union status quo–that for years included segregation and discrimination–was a key factor in transforming the post office. Continue Reading A Retired Postal Worker’s Tax Day Recollections
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