On August 13, a delegation representing six signatories to A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service met with the Postmaster General, Megan Brennan at Postal Headquarters in Washington, D.C. John Hatton, Deputy Legislative Director of NARFE; Eva Dominguez, Legislative Representative for the Alliance for Retired Americans; Melanie Campbell, President and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and Convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable; Rev. Steven D. Martin, Director of Communications and Development for the National Council of Churches; Katherine McFate, President and CEO of the Center for Effective Government; and Rob Weissman, President of Public Citizen had a productive dialogue with Brennan, as well as with Ronald Stroman, Deputy Postmaster General, and Jeffrey Williamson, Chief Human Resources Officer.
This meeting was a historic first for the Alliance as we continue to build towards a vibrant public Postal Service for generations to come.
Pictured, from left to right:
John Hatton, Deputy Legislative Director, National Active and Retired Federal Employees
Eva Dominguez, Legislative Representative, Alliance for Retired Americans
Melanie Campbell, President and CEO, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable
Megan Brennan, Postmaster General
Rev. Steven D. Martin, Director of Communications and Development, National Council of Churches
Katherine McFate, President and CEO, Center for Effective Government
Jeffrey Williamson, Chief Human Resources Officer and Exec. VP, USPS
Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen
Ronald A. Stroman, Deputy PMG and Chief Government Relations Officer
As a private citizen, I am 100% in favor of preserving the United States Postal Service as it was intended – a historical public entity successfully serving all citizens, public and private, in a manner proudly accomplished since its inception.
I believe that the absurd onus put on the USPS by Congress to fully fund employee retirements for a period of 75 years into the future was entirely intended to diminish and demean the USPS, and to bring the Post Office’s complete operation to its knees, thereby opening the door for this proud institution to be destroyed and reformed as a private enterprise.
I am 100% opposed to the privatization of the USPS, the aim of which is to transform a thriving and trusted public business entity into a private corporation and to allow that private corporation to have the use of established offices, handling equipment, routes, etc., that have been carefully created and carved out over the years by the USPS. I fear that, as a privately owned corporation, the delivery services of the former publicly owned USPS will be decreased substantially while the costs of service and delivery will correspondingly be increased substantially.
The publicly owned USPS has always been responsible for and successful at delivering all sorts of mail items to both private citizens and public businesses alike at an affordable price and in a timely manner since its inception.
Why is it necessary at this point in time to end that public service operation at the whim of politicians whose every ambition lately seems to be to deprive the general public of trusted and welcome services while magnanimously enriching themselves?
The Postal Service belongs to all of us not just the “big mailers”.