This is reprint of a blog post from the American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA) and is the viewpoint of the AFSA.
“A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service” has been very successful in such a short amount of time. The Alliance is now made up of 74 national organizations and many state and local organizations continue to join.
The Postal Service needs our help in the fight to maintain and enhance its public service. Mail delivery has been drastically delayed since the reduction in service standards went into effect on January 5. The planned closings of 82 more mail processing centers will only make things worse.
We are urging you to come out and join the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) on Thursday May, 14 2015, for a National Day of Action: “I Stand with Postal Workers” at locations nationwide.
You can also participate in a campaign to help keep the public Postal Service vibrant by signing a postcard to Postmaster General Megan Brennan: “I Stand With Postal Workers.”
We will miss the service after it’s gone.
I support a strong public USPS.
Standing strong from a gr8 family of postal workers…our dedication shows as the postal service cuts employees and forces closures; management pushing the limits on the employees that will retire soon, ignoring safety in the work place, leaving facilities with No management to handle phones, complaints, or long lines.
I Thank those in service everyday because they walk the walk.
Instead of continuing to decimate our postal service, I implore you very publicly to oppose further cuts to staff, closures of facilities, and the sale of public buildings, especially those on the National Register of Historic Buildings i.e. the one in Berkeley, CA, and develop support for the USPS, its employees and assets among lawmakers and public policy wonks. It seems to me that what has been going on is the opposite of what should be done. The postal service is a public institution that serves and benefits all of us, especially the least among us, and it is unconscionable to allow it to deteriorate as it already has. Demand that public officials pay for the services they themselves demand on behalf of their constituents, Saturday delivery being just one example.
I stand with the postal workers and this American institution the United States Postal Service!