NALC: Stop USPS from Making ‘Big Mistake’
NALC is taking its campaign to preserve the long-term viability of the Postal Service to the streets this summer.
President Fred Rolando launched the “Save Saturday Delivery” campaign with a national mailing to branch leaders and state-level legislative activists. Included in the mailing is a comprehensive toolkit designed to help local leaders weigh in with Congress on the need to keep Saturday delivery and mobilize support for our position with the Postal Regulatory Commission.
“This fight cannot be won in Washington alone,” Rolando said. “We need every member to help us prevail – giving up Saturday delivery to competitors is the most short-sighted idea imaginable. We must stop the Postal Service from making such a big mistake.”
The “Save Saturday Delivery” toolkit contains fact sheets, talking points and instructions for activists.
NALC congressional district liaisons and state legislative chairs will organize in-district visits with House and Senate members and organize letter-writing campaigns aimed at key legislators.
Branch leaders will conduct community outreach to encourage opposition to the elimination of Saturday delivery, both in Congress and within the PRC, which is conducting a formal review of the USPS proposal for weekday-only collections and delivery. Its advisory opinion, which will be released by the end of the year, could be influential in Congress – the only body with the power to approve the USPS plan.
The NALC believes that eliminating Saturday delivery would do more harm than good – it will simply push more mailers out of the postal system by making it less valuable.
“Slower service and higher rates is not a business strategy,” Rolando said. “Congress must reform the retiree health pre-funding provisions of the law. And we must do our part to preserve the excellent level of service we provide, six days a week, and seek to add new services that will generate new revenue for the USPS.”
Through the “Save Saturday Delivery” campaign, NALC aims to educate members of Congress, as well as the general public, about what it’s really going to take to fix the Postal Service.
“The Postal Service is a vital national service and we have a responsibility to fight for its future,” Rolando said.
Source: NALC
Let me guess Harry you won’t be one of the ones who will be lossing your job if they take Saturday away. I lost 3 full time jobs because I am a sub for the PO. Nobody likes to keep a person who is on call 5 days a week and gets calls late at night to haul for the regular the next day. People in our area count on the mail coming on Saturday, most get their medicine that day. If they take it away who knows what day it will come.
Hey, I love my Saturday mail. If I have a package, that’s the only day I don’t work that the post office delivers. Your competitors such as UPS and other services don’t have Saturday delivery, why not instead go back to when the post office was taxpayer funded and also start an e-mail service? Some have suggested that e-mail delivery with a “USPS.com” domain name would be very attractive to lots of people and if there were kiosks in or near post offices, people could log in anyplace in the country (for a fee, of course). Great for tourists and domestic travellers too! I’ve never understood why Congress cast off the postal service as a “for profit” entity, it’s clearly a public good to have regular, dependable, mail service in this country but the “for profit” model never really fit.
As a nalc member
Saturday delivery should STOP.
save what’s left.
To the Central Ohio carrier….I wonder how you will feel when you are age 45 or 50 and your supervisor doesn’t like the added time it now takes for you to complete your route?? What you fail to grasp, because you probably haven’t reached the age where your body just wont move as fast as it does now, is that the USPS and its supervisors do not care one bit about your age, or ailments that will come after a couple decades of sloshing through the snow or the summer heat. So you might not be so quick to trash the NALC, because it will be there for you when you start getting harassed in the office and on the street. Oh, and one more thing, you are making a base pay now of over $54,000 for a job which any non-union private company would pay their employees maybe $12 or $15 an hour – it doesn’t take much mental ability anymore to pick up DPS trays and case a few feet of flats and hit the street……….you are just a little more than a glorified paperboy now, so be grateful for what the NALC has done for us.
5-day delivery= getting rid of the LAZY,OVERPAID NALC officials!!!!!! It can’t happen soon enough.
P.S. I am a 18 year carrier tha doesn’t need the union to “protect” me, I DO MY JOB!!!!
I reverse my prior stance on 5-day delivery and wholeheartedly oppose such a move. I was selfish in my ways before, but now I see the ramifications this action will be sure to cause.