July 9, 2014 “A Postal Service letter to the APWU dated July 7 indicating that it is terminating the no-bid deal with Staples and replacing it with an ‘approved shipper’ program is a ruse,” said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. “The USPS is changing the name of the program, without addressing the fundamental concerns of postal workers and postal customers. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.
“The USPS letter to the APWU makes it clear: The Postmaster General intends to continue to privatize postal retail operations, replace living-wage Postal Service jobs with low-wage Staples jobs, and compromise the safety and security of the mail,” he said.
“The people of this country have a right to postal services provided by highly-trained, uniformed USPS employees who are sworn to safeguard the mail,” the union president added.
“This attempt at trickery shows that the ‘Don’t Buy Staples’ movement is having an effect,” Dimondstein said. “We intend to keep up the pressure until Staples gets out of the mail business.
“The U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale!”
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“The people of this country have a right to postal services provided by highly-trained, uniformed USPS employees who are sworn to safeguard the mail,” the union president added? Really?
Then why Mr. Diamondstein did you sell your MVS craft down the river and engage in protecting the rights of contract drivers? Are they highly trained? Are they uniformed? Are they sworn to protect the mail? Why did you do that Mr. Photo Opp? If you are successful in stopping Staples will that mean jobs for your membership? Will that guarantee more & better jobs for your constituents? Or is this another of your smokescreens to distract your membership from the ultimate truth…your union can do nothing about loss of work and mail volume to the internet…NOTHING! Can we boycott your home?
most of the lower management are so stupid they don’t realize they are working themselves out of a job, replace workers with staples workers and you don’t need postal supervisor’s any more, staples hire’s more manager’s for the postal jobs they stole, the PMG is Lucifer in sheep’s clothing.