POSTAL CRISIS, Portland Hearing

Over a hundred people crowd into the
Augustana Lutheran Church in NE
Portland, Oregon to hear testimony from
customers, mailers, and postal employees.

Speakers reveal a postal crisis: deteriorating
customer service, substandard working
conditions, threatened post office closures,
and financial debt.
Notwithstanding the doom and gloom,
many of those at the microphone
bring forward ideas for
positive change.
After listening to testimony from
over twenty speakers and after several
rounds of questions by the panel,
the Workers Rights Board issues
recommendations to the assembly, including
a pledge to meet with US Postal
Service management to

1. urge that the USPS restore customer service
and improve working conditions by
fully staffing Portland-area postal
facilities through hiring of career
letter carriers and clerks,
especially from the ranks of existing transitional
employees and the unemployed.

2. communicate with Portland's Congressional
delegation and the President their desire to see a
swift fix to the USPS accounting problems.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• postal crisis
• letter carrier
• US Postal Service
• USPS
• Workers Rights Board
• Jobs with Justice
• NALC
• American Postal Workers Union
• APWU
• politics

[Mrvegasmax7777]

Sell the US Postal Service to it's employees and it's Union! The US Govt., and it's people need to get out of the postal business! E-mail and E-fax have all be eliminated the need for mail! Abolish the entire agency and let free Enterprise take over! Let them charge what ever they want and delievery when every they want. But allow other the right to do the same UPS<DHL<FEDEX!! It will be gone in 10 years or less anyway!! Do away with it!!!