U.S. Postal Service plans to suspend Saturday delivery to cut mounting debt drew opposition from Vermont’s congressional delegation at a rally in South Burlington on Sunday, The Associated Press reported. “You keep the economy going,” Sen. Bernie Sanders told the crowd, according to the Burlington Free Press. Sanders is the primary sponsor of a bill that would repeal a 2006 law that mandated the Postal Service pre-fund 75 years of future health care benefits for retirees. Bernie Sanders

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. -The fight over the U.S. Postal Service’s plans to suspend Saturday mail delivery continues. At a packed rally in South Burlington Sunday, Senators Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders, and Congressman Peter Welch voiced support for a bill that will keep delivery to six days a week.

“One sixth of the work force would lose their jobs — I would lose my job,” said Eric Spencer.

Spencer has delivered mail for the USPS for nearly a decade and came to a rally Sunday afternoon in support of a bill that will keep mail delivery at six days a week and coverage in even the most rural areas of the state. The change in services recently announced by the Postal Service was a response to huge gaps in the financial structure.

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