SAVE THE AMERICAS POSTAL SERVICE: (Excerpts from a joint statement by the four postal union presidents) On Nov. 14 postal workers across the country will come together for a National Day of Action to tell Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and the USPS Board of Governors: Stop Delaying Americas Mail! Please join us! Whether you are postal employee, a small business owner, an individual customer, or someone who simply wants the U.S. Postal Service to survive and thrive, please get involved! Why Now? The Postmaster General is poised to make devastating cuts in service to the American people – cuts so severe that they will forever damage the U.S. Postal Service. • On Jan. 5, the USPS is slated to lower “service standards” to virtually eliminate overnight delivery – including first-class mail from one address to another within the same city or town. • All mail (medicine, online purchases, local newspapers, church bulletins, letters, bill payments, invitations) throughout the country will be delayed. • Beginning Jan. 5, 82 Mail Processing & Distribution Centers are scheduled to close. These cuts will cause hardships for customers, drive away business, cause irreparable harm to the U.S. Postal Service, and lead to massive schedule changes and reassignments for employees. Flawed Strategy They are part of a flawed management strategy that has unnecessarily sacrificed service and failed to address the cause of the Postal Service’s manufactured financial crisis. • More than 140 plants have closed since 2012;• • As a result, mail is delivered much later in the day, well into the evening;• • Retail work is being sent to Staples, at more than 1,500 stores throughout the country;• • Door delivery is being eliminated in most new housing developments;• • Chronic understaffing frustrates customers and slows the mail, and• • Six-day delivery is under constant threat.• The four postal unions are joining forces to protect service, fight for our livelihoods, and defend our great national treasure, the U.S. Postal Service. We have many allies in the fight against the proposed changes, including more than half the Senate and 160 U.S. Representatives. Are the Cuts Inevitable? The Nov. 14 date was selected because it coincides with the USPS Board of Governors’ last public meeting of 2014. On that day, the board will release the USPS financial reports for the fiscal year, and undoubtedly will once again bemoan “billions of dollars in losses.” In fact, the USPS has earned more than $1 billion in profit from operations this year. The “losses” are the result of a bogus pre-funding requirement and have nothing to do with the cost of collecting, sorting and delivering mail. On Friday, Nov. 14, help send a message to the Postmaster General and the Board of Governors: Stop Delaying America’s Mail! For more information, email StopMailDelays@gmail. - See more at: apwu.org/issues/stop-delaying-americas-mail#sthash.pf5PLTWB.dpuf Call your Senators & Representative today! The “Dear Colleague” letter is still circulating in the House & Senate calling for a one-year moratorium on plant closures. Ask your Congress persons to sign on! Go to capwiz/apwu/ home/ or call the Congressional switchboard # 202-225-3121 and they can connect you to your congressman/womans office based on your zip code. #saveamericaspostalservice #mailman #postoffice #mailcarrier #postalworker #usps #junkmailapparel #mailmanproblems
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:24:43 +0000
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