{"id":6669,"date":"2013-10-17T15:29:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T20:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=6669"},"modified":"2013-10-17T15:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T20:30:51","slug":"no-closures-no-cuts-no-delay-of-the-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2013\/10\/17\/no-closures-no-cuts-no-delay-of-the-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"No Closures! No Cuts! No Delay of the Mail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Newsletter<\/strong><br \/>\nOct. &#8211; Nov. 2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bronx General Post Office &#8211; Not for Sale<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Excerpts from Labor Press article by Steven Wishnia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chanting \u201cKeep the Post Office in the Bronx,\u201d about 75 people rallied Sept. 21 to protest the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s plans to sell the Bronx General Post Office. <a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CPWU-Newsletter-Oct2013.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6670\" alt=\"CPWU-Newsletter-Oct2013\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/CPWU-Newsletter-Oct2013.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The New Deal-era building,is one of about 500 post offices the Postal Service has put up for sale, says Jacque-lyn McCormick of the National Post Office Collaborate.<\/p>\n<p>In New York City, the Postal Service recently put plans to close 34 post offices on hold, says Chuck Zlatkin, political di-rector of the New York Area Metro local of the American Postal Workers Union. It\u2019s now planning to \u201crelocate\u201d them, he explains, because it can do that without holding hearings.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, the Postal Service has hired the CBRE Group to handle sales, and its chair is Richard C. Blum, husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). In what McCormick calls a \u201ctotal sweetheart deal,\u201d it\u2019s about to sell the Stamford, Connecticut, post office to a developer for $2 million less than a local arts group offered.<\/p>\n<p>Metro APWU President Jonathan Smith accuses the Postal Service of \u201ca strategy to discourage the public from coming in\u201d and create resentment of union workers, such as by reducing the number of windows open and thus making the lines longer. In 2011, it moved mail processing for the Bronx to its main facility in Manhattan. The Bronx had to start mail carriers\u2019 shifts an hour later to try to compensate for the late deliveries from Man-hattan, says APWU assistant director Genevieve Gardner.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the post offices being sold have historic value, says McCormick, from both their architecture and their New Deal murals depicting local history and labor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postalemployeenetwork.com\/CPWU Newsletter - Oct 2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communities and Postal Workers United (CPWU) Newsletter Oct. &#8211; Nov. 2013 Bronx General Post Office &#8211; Not for Sale Excerpts from Labor Press article by Steven Wishnia Chanting \u201cKeep the Post Office in the Bronx,\u201d about 75 people rallied Sept. 21 to protest the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s plans to sell the Bronx General Post Office. 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