As outlined on its national web site, the National Association of Letter Carriers is coordinating a national day of action on March 24, 2013 to raise public awareness and to rally support to keep Saturday mail delivery. The NALC is planning to conduct rallies at various locations around the country.
The NPMHU has been asked by the NALC to support them in this effort, and to join them at the various rallies. Therefore, the National NPMHU leadership is encouraging all of its Local Unions, and all Mail Handlers to participate in these events on March 24 in whatever way you can. This participation must be off-the-clock.
Please check the following web sites for information on how you can locate events in your area of the country:
http://www.nalc.org/ or at http://action.deliveringforamerica.com/page/event/search_simple
Please join our brothers and sisters in the NALC in these efforts to save Saturday delivery, and to stop further cuts to service. KEEP THE “SERVICE” IN THE POSTAL SERVICE!
via National Postal Mail Handlers Union
Oh by the way this is directed mostly at enufisenuf
To all the idiots that don’t care about there job guess what don’t care I hope you are one of those people who they lay off. Carriers who have less then 15 years in should be concerned, all the dumb carriers or sorry 204b or supervisors or lazy employees who made these silly comments need to think about the reason carriers are against it. Not because of the union it’s because we want to keep a job. You seem to complain about how the union screwed you over get over it you are a cry baby you just had a crappy station who screwed you over. I know alot of these silly people think 5 day delivery is great but they will have to layoff tons of people and the unemployment rate will go up. You all make no sense at all.
Right on Paul!
Make no mistake, 5 day will be the beginning of the end. Potter/donahoe both wanted 5 day and said they would benefit more from losing even another day of delivery (see where this is going). It may save em 2 bill but lost business will cost them double. Who stands to benefit? Pitney Bowes is licking their chops since they’ve been lobbying hard to take over the usps mail sorting function…they already do the presorting for all the major mailers. USPS doesn’t need anyone to presort mail, they have billion dollar sorting machines that sit idle while Pitney Bowes plays middle man and takes usps profits. You can also see why Issa is so passionate about tearing down the usps since Pitney Bowes is one of his biggest donors. Why else would he go after an organization with his draconian cuts when they’re not even supported by taxpayers.
USPS can charge a premiumn for Sat.-Sun. delivery same as UPS or Fed X. Premium paid is for designated guaranteed delivery
which excludes ordinary parcel rates. This levels the playing field as all are competiving for premiumn paid for designated delivery. This is mode UPS and FED X operate at present.
Postal Mama:
Calling someone a scab doesn’t have same intimidation effect today as it did back in the 50s & 60s. In case you haven’t noticed, no one gives a damn including your membership. I became a scab when I was bumped by a junior clerk (who was a steward)and I was excessed instead of him because of a “superseniority” clause that was negotiated by the very same union I paid dues to…so instead of protecting me, they screwed me to protect instead their own. Then if that wasn’t enough, I find out that the union has an Officer Only Retirement Fund that was paid for by my dues but that I cannot access or use. That’s right…union members pay for their career officers retirement fund while we, again, get screwed by the very same folks that are supposed to protect us. I can cite numerous other examples…like that “watershed” agreement. Scab? So what! Stick it…I got a raise when I got out of the union!
The public said they could do without Saturday delivery until they are expecting to get a package. It’s like no one likes cops until they need one.
Where is the APWU National’s support for this? What’s up Guffey? Afraid to piss off the PMG because of all those side deals you made?
Those of you that think that cutting Saturday delivery are kidding yourselves. UPS delivers on Saturday for a premium price. We do not. If we give up delivering actual mail on Saturdays then someone else will look to take it from us. There are publications that depend on being delivered on Saturday including newspapers in some areas. If we stop delivery that day we lose that business the rest of the week as well. We need to use the network we have and create new ideas and not try to cut service. We can improve if the Postal Board of Governors would only allow us to. Those of you that are looking forward to having Saturdays off may have a long ride to and from work everyday when you are relocated.
I see ups and fedex when I work on Saturdays. They are not stupid. They will take what we give up. Unions don’t care about losing dues, it’s about keeping our jobs, retirement, and healthcare. I bet all you whiners are scabs….
5 day street delivery is the common sense approach to reducing postal debt as revenue generation is in a downward decline mode. Shipping and parcel revenue increased to last fisical year this is the only area with light at the end of the tunnel. Should adapt business model comparable to Fed X and UPS if decreasing monatary loss matters. 6 day mail delivery does not matter to most American businesses or individual mailers in the 21st century as advances in communication technology has created instant means of electronic communication.
We already HAVE patrons that only get 5 day delivery. Many of them are big corporations. Believe me on this one. It doesn’t work. They are better off leaving it alone.
We already HAVE patrons that only get 5 day delivery. Many of them are big corporations. Believe me on this one. It doesn’t work.
if letter carriers truly want to end saturday delivery or do not care about it, then they do not care about their job. I could care less about the union bottom line, it is the FUTURE which must concern us, those middle income people who would support their families on a decent wage. It is the slow and deliberate dismantling of the USPS that we need to be concerned with, yeah some letter carriers will be great now Sat and Sun off, until next year when they say four day delivery and then eventually it will be every other day or three days a week. The elimination of any day of delivery should be due to mail volume and NOT because it will save the USPS money, because the USPS is not supposed to make money. Alas it seems none of this matters, there is evil at work and the devil is busy making sure the USPS goes down the drain.
I agree, the public could really care less for mail on Saturday. Most of them don’t want it during the week. I think the union really needs to pick better battles to fight for the carriers. They never listen to us. It is always about the mighty union dues. Less carriers, less dues for them.
Exactly right…Most carriers want to go to five day but the union never surveyed them cause the issue affects the bottom line of money in union coffers to support their own personal golden parachutes when they leave! I haven’t seen any article titled “NALC surveys its members and the members want to work on Saturdays and have rotating days off!” Did anyone see that? No…what you did see are surveys taken of newspaper publishers and seniors that want Saturday delivery but, as a whole, no one cares! The bottom line is that the NALC doesn’t give a fat rats butt about what carriers want IF it impacts the NALC’s pocket.
We have no sympathy in the general public so join this idiot march and give all letter-carriers a big black-eye. Most carriers want to go to five day. Make sure to carry sign and look ignorant.