July 12th, 2011
Dear Representative Emerson,
On behalf of the organizations that represent the employees of the US Postal Service, we support your provision on six-day mail delivery contained in HR 2434 (Financial Services and Appropriations Act of Fiscal Year 2012). We believe that any attempt to strike that language from your bill fails to recognize:
- There will be a loss of 80,000 or more jobs if Saturday delivery is eliminated.
- The Congress has a 30 year unblemished, bipartisan history of supporting six days of delivery and universal service, from President Reagan to President Obama.
- Tens of millions of businesses and constituents will be disadvantaged by the loss of Saturday delivery. A disproportionate number of those who are disadvantaged live in rural America, or are the elderly, underprivileged and handicapped, whose lives depend on the USPS for prescription drugs, not to mention the millions of businesses who receive movies and parcels on Saturday.
- There is considerable dispute about the “savings” attributed to lowering service to five days a week. The independent Postal Regulatory Commission found that the US Postal Service’s analysis was fundamentally flawed, underestimating the amount of revenue and business lost by the USPS, and that 25% of First Class and Priority Mail would be delayed two days.
We urge you and the Rules Committee to protect six-day delivery.
Sincerely,
American Postal Workers Union
National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
National Association of Letter Carriers
National Postal Mail Handlers Union
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The unions are blind and deaf to what’s going on around them. I’ve been working for the USPS for 28 years. We are going the way of the telegraph! The unions refuse to let go of their power. They are willing to take all of us down with them. They are just as destructive as the pitiful management that leads us all. Wake up before you destroy the whole company.