ST. LOUIS, MO () – You can expect a big announcement from Amazon any day now. Our partners at the Post-Dispatch have learned that the major online retailer will begin Sunday deliveries in St. Louis, as early as March 16th.
Post-Dispatch Reporter Kavita Kumar says, “They were going to roll it out to other markets in 2014. They didn`t mention St. Louis at the time, they mentioned some other major markets like Houston and Phoenix.” But now, our partners at the Post have uncovered from the USPS and other sources that St. Louis is on that list of cities.
Kumar says Sunday deliveries will be a big boost for the beleaguered USPS, partnering with Amazon in this new endeavor: “UPS has been taking a lot more of their parcel packages, so this is one way that the Postal Service is trying to increase its delivery of packages, which of course is what`s growing.”
According to the Post-Dispatch, the USPS will be hiring some new workers to meet demands for Sunday deliveries.
Bill Lister, local union president for the National Association of Letter Carriers, said Sunday delivery in this region was originally set to launch this month. The delay to March, he said, was due in part to the Postal Service’s needing more time to hone its scanning procedures and to update some of the local hubs with the technology needed to download information about delivery routes.
He said that it would be the Postal Service’s lower-wage employees with minimal benefits — the “noncareer” workers whose employment is renewed on a yearly basis — who will be delivering the packages on Sunday. New employees will be hired to handle those routes, he said.
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Diamondstein will picket Amazon! Per diem and expenses paid for all picketers!
It seems a bit ironic that postal management has been pushing for a 5 day delivery work week.
Great, CCAs can’t even finish their assignments now and don’t show up
During the regular week to work. Looks like the regular work will there Sundays too
Wow-
The USPS is going to whore itself out on Sundays now. Is there no limit to what they will do to earn a buck? Pimp daddy Donuthole must be proud of this new “triumph” for the service. Oh wait- he will be at home with his family on Sundays….
Tough to work Sundays, but beats no coffee money !