Tell PMG, Board of Governors: Stop Delaying America’s Mail!
10/29/2014 – Plans are taking shape for a National Day of Action on Nov. 14, when members of the four postal unions and supporters will send a powerful message to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and the USPS Board of Governor’s: Stop Delaying America’s Mail.
The four unions are working together at the national level to produce flyers, posters, T-shirts and press releases, and they are encouraging their members to work together to organize local events. A special web page, www.StopMailDelays.org, has been created to share information and resources. Flyers are now available for union locals and branches to distribute to their members. Information about local activities can be printed on the back. Additional material will be made available as it is produced, including a list of local activities showing the times, locations and contact information.
On Jan. 5 the Postmaster General and the Board of Governors are poised to make devastating cuts in service to the American people – cuts so severe that they will forever damage the U.S. Postal Service, the union presidents said in an Oct. 16 letter calling for the National Day of Action.
- 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, including medicine, online purchases, local newspapers, church bulletins, bill payments, sale notices, throughout the country will be delayed.
- Beginning Jan. 5, 2015, 82 Mail Processing & Distribution Centers are scheduled to close or “consolidate operations.”
The four postal unions, the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) and National Rural Letter Carriers Association (NRLCA), are urging their members and postal customers to send a message to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe and the USPS Board of Governors: Stop Delaying America’s Mail!
APWU turned it[‘s back on members long ago.
In Atlanta, we protest other issues by marching on the Interstate downtown during rush hour in the afternoon. We attracted enormous attention from the media, and hundred of drivers headed home were honking their horns in solidarity!
The Unions should consider that tactic. Find the busiest Interstate in your town and march in the lanes during after noon rush hour. If a protester is tragically run over (and hopefully not killed immediately), your protest will make all of the cable news programs!
The devious employers may outspend us, but they cannot outsmart us!
Solidarity!
Here’s a thought: How about everyone in the postal unions, who are obviously taking time from their job, GO DELIVER YOUR ROUTE!!!
Who’s delaying mail now…???