The Commission is inviting public feedback on a Postal Service proposal to end carrier street address delivery, collection at blue collection boxes and most originating mail processing on Saturdays in the United States. This is one of the most significant changes the Postal Service has ever presented to the Commission. The Postal Service is required to ask the Commission for an Advisory Opinion on any change in nationwide service that it proposes.
Among key questions to be answered are: “Will the savings the Postal Service anticipates be as significant as they estimate? Will mail volume decline more than the Postal Service anticipates? Will businesses and citizens have service that remains adequate to meet their needs? And will the national economic impact of service reductions offset or add to the savings that are proposed?
Postal employees need to speak out against this proposal. Eliminating Saturday delivery is an ill conceived plan that would be a disservice to Americans and destroy the USPS; an icon of American public service. Consumers rely on the USPS to deliver everything from medical supplies and documents to parts and supplies for farms and small businesses; especially in rural areas. Necessities that may have been delivered Saturday will now wait until Monday and with the growing number of PO closings across the country, it will be more difficult than ever for working citizens to take delivery of items requiring a signature. For many, Saturday is the only day they are home to receive such items and the nearest PO may be miles away or closed before they can get there on a weekday after work.
In testimony before a Congressional panel, PMG Potter admitted that projected losses of $238 billion by year 2010 were a “theoretical” worst case scenario based on the ridiculous assumption that the USPS and Congress would “do nothing” to reduce costs or increase revenue over the next 10 years.
Protect your job, protect the sanctity of the mail and protect the Postal Service from the wreckless privateering vultures who would like nothing more than to see the USPS fail so they could swoop in and snatch up the most profitable bits of the scattered remains leaving the rest to rot on the carcass like carrion in the sun.
KEEP 6 DAY MAIL DELIVERY!
