1.9.2015 Ensuring door mail delivery continues
Reps. Susan Davis (D-CA), David Joyce (R-OH) and Peter King (R-NY) are reintroducing their door-delivery resolution for the 114th Congress, calling on the House and Senate to “take all appropriate measures to ensure the continuation of door delivery for all business and residential customers.”
The resolution will be identical to H.Res. 711, which was introduced last August during the 113th Congress and which ended up with 75 sponsors from both parties. In the 113th Congress, proposals to cut mail services such as door delivery were common. The NALC and our allies in Congress and among postal stakeholders have been instrumental in the so-far successful fight against these and other service cuts that, if implemented, would be detrimental to postal customers, especially to senior citizens (who rely on prescription medications being delivered to their door) and to disabled customers.
For businesses, eliminating door delivery would undercut the success of the Customer Connect program, where letter carriers use their personal connections to solicit new business in person. Besides, a Government Accountability Office report found that cluster boxes were so unpopular that less than 0.8 percent of business door-delivery customers last year opted to make the switch. (The report found the percentage was even lower for residences: 0.1 percent.)
“We are grateful to Representatives Davis, Joyce and King for introducing this resolution right out of the gate in this session of Congress,” NALC President Fredric Rolando said. “Cutting vital services like door delivery is not the way to save the Postal Service, and preserving the guarantee of door delivery will be crucial in fending off such attacks. We urge every member of the House—on both sides of the aisle—to sign on to this resolution.”
Note: Although the resolution has not been assigned a number yet, Rep. Davis, Joyce and King already have begun collecting co-sponsors.
Check back for a fact sheet in support of this resolution
if the NALC were actually working for its members, it would require everyone to have a curbside box…… it would be so much safer for the carriers to not have to be out in extreme weather and run the risk of dog bites….. but again this would take $ from Fat Freddy Rolando’s pocket so it won’t happen……Fred and co. don’t care about the individual worker- they only want numbers of workers…… his comment about driving business away is typical union speak- lots of fluff and no substance
Where’s the legislation for eliminating prefunding? Oh,…. you already spent it.
Eliminating door to door delivery is just a means to eliminate routes. Anyone who advocates for this nonsense, must be looking forward to another 100 plus deliveries per day. Some people are so clueless it’s frightening.
How about restoring overnight delivery to our customers?
because the public doesnt care about overnight delivery
Don’t know why the NALC is fighting this one. It is MUCH safer to letter carriers
NOT to be on private property. I would say stay with BOP.
Set up a formula, set a standard for distance between delivery points.
If it is greater it should be BOP. If the DBs running this place actually thought
anything through they might actually get it to pass.
The people in the NALC pushing this dont walk anyway.Do you know how much safer our job would be if did not have to walk through yards with holes and debris. And dog attacks are a whole other story. People would still get good service,but not at the exspence of joint replacements for the mail carrier. How wonderful retirement will be we can all meet at Wal-Mart with our canes and walkers.
Dude walk on the sidewalk not a lawn. This is happening in Canada, Mr Harper is trying to crush Unions, hope you guys don’t fall…. I realize the USPS is in trouble but that has been caused by mismanagement not by the workers so stand tall and fight fight fight.
From a Union Brother in Canada
Where do we put the cluster box up for Congress? Oh? It’s not safe to do that?
Does ISSA get home delivery?
Does nothing but help send the PO out of business and keep NALC officers living fat until then.
why is it Congress always want to tell the U S P S how to do its job but doesn’t want to give it any money to do it?
I can only reach one conclusion why the management wants to slash services and standards: they WANT the Service to fail. Belly up. These assholes have visions of huge executive salaries offered by the private companies dancing in their heads and are orchestrating the demise of the USPS but fortunately like everything else they do, they’re fucking it up because they simply are not qualified to be running such a mammoth organization in the first place.
Nothing else adds up. And to prove management is truly deluded, they are not taking into account the fact that the Service is Constitutionally mandated, and only through all 50 states voting to overturn the amendment that contains the mandate (I don’t know which one, sorry) can anybody take over the Service from the government.
This deliberate malfeasance will come to an end. Enough people are pressuring Congress to stop these morons, and eventually lawmakers will have to step in and pass laws protecting the Service from those running it into the ground. The goals of reducing service, door to door delivery and five day delivery are so obviously detrimental not even an indifferent Congress can ignore it. Brennan will come in and try to keep the Service on Donahoe’s path, but she will meet with increasing resistance and as a proven lackey and architect of the direction the USPS is going, she’ll hopefully either change her ways once she’s in or go down in flames. We must keep up the pressure.
Don’t expect the Repub controlled houses to pass any legislation to stop management’s sell off to privatization or confirm Obama’s five appointments to fill out the BOG.
Over my dead body will any legislation not include requiring the Post Office to move to cluster boxes!
Not to be mean, but if walking to the mailbox on the curb is your only exercise maybe that’s why you need medicine. You can file for hardship for your health. No need to run up the cost for the postal service for one or two people on the block. The carrier can get out and deliver to your house when inclement weather.
Eliminating door to door delivery is just a means to eliminate routes. Anyone who advocates for this nonsense, must be looking forward to another 100 plus deliveries per day. Some people are so clueless it’s frightening.