{"id":8175,"date":"2014-08-08T07:52:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T12:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=8175"},"modified":"2014-08-08T07:52:59","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T12:52:59","slug":"deadline-extended-the-senate-can-help-stop-service-cuts-and-plant-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/08\/08\/deadline-extended-the-senate-can-help-stop-service-cuts-and-plant-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline Extended: The Senate Can Help Stop Service Cuts and Plant Closures"},"content":{"rendered":"
APWU: Deadline Extended through Monday, Aug. 11, 2014<\/div>\n

The Senate Can Help Stop Service Cuts and Plant Closures<\/h1>\n

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08\/07\/2014\u00a0–\u00a0A move by the USPS that will slow America\u2019s mail service and that threatens tens of thousands of jobs requires an urgent response, said APWU President Mark Dimondstein. \"1aa-APWU-small\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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On June 30, the USPS announced its intention to close and consolidate 82 mail processing facilities in 37 states throughout the country beginning in January 2015.<\/p>\n

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On Aug. 1, the USPS posted a notice in\u00a0Federal Register\u00a0announcing that the consolidations will eliminate overnight mail delivery, even within the same town.<\/p>\n

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Such reckless and counterproductive cuts by USPS have caught the attention of Congress, which has the authority and ability to set USPS on the right path.\u00a0 So far, 42 senators have\u00a0signed on to a letter<\/a>\u00a0by Senators Tester (D-MT), Sanders (I-VT), and Baldwin (D-WI) to the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee urging them to stop these devastating cuts to America\u2019s postal network.\u00a0 The senators wisely requested that the Committee include language in its appropriations bill to maintain service standards at current levels and prevent any closures or consolidations in 2015.<\/p>\n

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While these 42 senators got the ball rolling, they need our help!\u00a0 To ensure the Senate Appropriations Committee does the right thing and votes to protect speedy mail delivery, our jobs, and our facilities, we are asking all APWU members to reach out to their senators in support of this effort.<\/p>\n

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To send a message right now, please\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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To find your senators’ phone numbers and call them, please\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The senators who have signed on so far include:<\/p>\n

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Tester (D-MT), Sanders (I-VT), Baldwin (D-WI), Udall (D-CO), Blumenthal (D-CT), Murphy (D-CT), Hirono (D-HI), Schatz (D-HI), Harkin (D-IA), Donnelly (D-IN), Landrieu (D-LA), Markey (D-MA), Warren (D-MA), Cardin (D-MD), Collins (R-ME), King (I-ME), Levin (D-MI), Stabenow (D-MI), Blunt (R-MO), McCaskill (D-MO), Franken (D-MN), Klobuchar (D-MN), Walsh (D-MT), Hagan (D-NC), Heitkamp (D-ND), Hoeven (R-ND), Shaheen (D-NH), Heinrich (D-NM), Gillibrand (D-NY), Schumer (D-NY), Brown (D-OH), Inhofe (R-OK), Merkley (D-OR), Wyden (D-OR), Casey (D-PA), Reed (D-RI), Whitehouse (D-RI), Johnson (D-SD), Thune (R-SD), Leahy (D-VT), Cantwell (D-WA), and Manchin (D-WV).<\/p>\n

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APWU: Deadline Extended through Monday, Aug. 11, 2014 The Senate Can Help Stop Service Cuts and Plant Closures   08\/07\/2014\u00a0–\u00a0A move by the USPS that will slow America\u2019s mail service and that threatens tens of thousands of jobs requires an urgent response, said APWU President Mark Dimondstein.   On June 30, the USPS announced its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8176,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175\/revisions\/8176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}