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Sep 22. Nader: Time To Stop Closing Post Offices, USPS financial problems manufactured
Sept 8. USPS workers plan rally on Sept 27th to support HR 1351
Aug 17. Nonprofit mailers support Issa Bill, except for changes to their 40% discounts
Aug 24 USPS study: slower service could save money
Aug 23 Washington Post on the USPS health-care plan
July 21 New York Times: Many Seek to (Revamp Post Office)
Returning the money to the Postal Service would be listed as new government spending. And that would upset the budget-focused House majority."They don’t want it to show on the books,” Mr. Lynch said. “That’s where the resistance comes.”
Aug 21 Postal Service plans to shut down over 60% of its mail processing plants, run DBCS's 20 hrs a day
August 17 USPS Compromise may result in 5-day delivery
August 17 Shutdown of the Post Office in May or June 2012 a possibility ?
Aug 17. State of the Postal
Service District Managers and/or staff are holding meetings with business mailers this month
August 15 GOP Senator questions the Postmaster General's decision to close rural post offices
Aug 13. Why the Postal Service is scaring the hell out of us
Aug 12. Washington Post: USPS seeks to cut jobs: What will be the impact?
Aug 12. The Big Lie about Postal Bankrupsy
May 19. Wall Street Journal, May 19, 2011 'The USPS Needs Fairer Pension Rules, Not a Bailout'
What The Boise Letter Is Doing
We are posting petitions on the APWU and other union boards that are
asking our U.S. Representatives
to support the bill HR 1351 that will allow the Post Office to get relief from the billions of dollars that the it has overpaid the government, and to do away the law that requires the Post Office to prefund 75 years worth of pensions in only 10 years, a law forcing the USPS to pay $5.5 billion annualy.
Every Postal Employee, every craft, any position, and the general public that is concerned about the Post Office and economy is
urged to sign this petition. We will then take all these pettitions that we can gather from Idaho and hand them to the offices of our 2 house representatives in the next couple of weeks. Please sign ! If you want to start a petition in your area and have us deliver it to him, please contact us at mochronicle@yahoo.com
In the meantime,
please contact your Congressman (click on the links to the left). It will aslo help to call him and let them know your thoughts. Heavy phone calls on a specific subject will make a difference. Also write to your congressman, the addresses are given below.
Look for this Petition on
make sure you get one on your union board: contact mochronicle@yahoo.com
Video
MSNBC breaks down the problem
and allows the Union to speak about the problems of the Post Office and Congress.
Where Have all the letters gone
Witesses mailing industry testifies.
uploaded May 13, 2011
H.R. 1351
The USPS Pension Obligation Recalculation and Restoration Act of 2011
Introduced by Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA) on April 4, would provide desperately-needed financial relief to the USPS by repaying the USPS money that has been over paid to the CSRS and FERS retirement (between $40 and $142 billion)
Contact the Representative for your district:
Representative Raul Labradore
district 1
Representative Mike Simpson
district 2
More Congress Contacts
I called Senator Risch's office this morning, the staff member that answered could not let me know where the Senator stands on the future of the USPS, layoffs, breaking contracts, or privatization talks. She took my address and told me the Senator would write to back on these issues. Please call your Congressman and ask questions, and let them know what your thoughts are.
E.M. 8-18-11
Still the best deal in town !
