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Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader Questions the Postmaster General’s Latest Strategy to Preserve the Nation’s Small Post Offices Expresses Concern About Reducing Post Office Hours and Slashing Postmasters’ Jobs Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe today announced a new strategy that he claims could keep the nation’s smallest Post Offices “open for business.” Nader noted the Postmaster General’s…

Condemns Postmaster General Donahoe’s Calls for Service Cuts, Post Office Closings, Job Cuts For More Information Contact: Ralph Nader or Jeff Musto 202-387-8034 Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader today called for Postmaster General Donahoe’s resignation. Several consumer non-profits joined him in this letter, including Public Citizen, Consumer Action, the Gray Panthers, and Essential Information. The Postmaster…

Dear Mr. Donahoe, You are actively presiding over the demise of one of our country’s greatest founding institutions. The U.S. Postal Service is an institution that was conceived by Benjamin Franklin and which has succeeded brilliantly over the generations to service, connect, and allow the people of our land to communicate with each other anywhere…

President Obama, As you know, this country has recently faced one of the worst financial crises in our history. In the aftermath, millions were left unemployed, without a home, saddled with enormous college loans, and struggling to get by. The economy continues to lag to this day, and many millions of Americans remain out of…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On behalf of Ralph Nader, the Mayer Law Group today asked the SEC to open an investigation and/or enforcement action regarding actions by Peter Peterson, BlackRock and Blackstone. The Mayer Law Group submitted evidence that Peterson, Blackstone and BlackRock sold to investors, including Mr. Nader, the Blackstone North America Income and Opportunity…

January 26, 2012 Nestle Waters 11700 E 47th Ave, Denver, CO 80239 Dear Mr. Franceschetti, The bottles of water you call Nestle Pure Life discloses on its label that the source is 1. What is the source for the Public Water Supply in Denver that you tap into for your bottled drinking water business there?…

January 20, 2012 Dear President Obama: As you prepare your State of the Union address, please be advised that those who support you are very cognizant of what you do not mention in such annual presentations to the Nation. For example, last year, environmentalists were shocked that global warming-climate change received no attention. Nor did…

Open Letter to the Wall Street Journal By Ralph Nader How unbecoming it is for the self-styled freedom-loving Wall Street Journal (“Ron Paul Nader?” Dec. 21) to use the politically bigoted word “spoiler” to describe a hypothetical Ron Paul-Libertarian party presidential run. Why is a third-party candidate called a “spoiler” when the nominees of the…

Open Letter to the New York Times By Ralph Nader Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. followed his declaration in the New York Times in late December that ballot access for voters “must be viewed not only as a legal issue but as a moral imperative” with a lawsuit to block an allegedly discriminatory South…

Dear Mr. CEO, Most airlines treat unused non-refundable tickets with the fine print dictate of monetary confiscation after one year of issuance. That is, if a passenger buys a non-refundable ticket to somewhere and for some reason does not use that ticket to fly on the prescheduled date, she/he has one year to use it,…