Current Goals:
Sun Aug 28, 2011: The begining of this week is our big letter writing campaign. We have example letters on the union board that explain our points to our congressman.
We have made contact with an APWU union rep in pocatello and shared our plans.
Boise Letter Committee will be sending two clerks to meet with each of Idaho's 2 US House Representatives' offices to discuss USPS legislation and ask for their support to cosponsor HR 1351. They have not responded for a week to our meeting requests. If they will not schedule a meeting with us, we will walk down to their Boise offices and drop the petitions off and give the staff that is there our message.
If you are a letter carrier, mail handler, or off site of the Boise P&DC contact the APWU and get copies of the petition on your union boards. If you want us to walk your petitions over to the Congressman's office in Boise, please contact us.
Please send any info, suggestions, or links to mochronicle@yahoo.com
Talking Points
In 2010, Career Mail Handlers, Clerks, Letter Carriers made up only 69.2% of the USPS employees.
According to a current stakeholders meeting, The USPS charted total revenue of 1st class mail at about only 22 cents each and standard revenue of about 7 cents each. Averaging, for the 161 billion letters delivered, revenue of only 14 cents each. If the USPS had regained revenue of 28 cents per letter (which is less than we charge citizens to mail a postcard) it would have gained $45 billion in revenue ($22 billion more than 2010). Or it would have to have delivered 75 billion less letters to make the same revenue. Which would be a drop of mail volume by over 46%.
In the past 4 years, mail volume has only dropped an average of 6.2% per year.
The fact is revenue sharing and subsidized business mail is what is killing the Post Office.
If first class mail decrease by half of what it was in 2010 and standard mail was eliminated completely (a loss of 132 billion letters) and the USPS collected 60 cents per letter revenue, it would be 23 billion, the same as it collects today with the current revenue sharing and large subsidies for standard and 1st class mail.
