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DESCRIPTION:Demonstration and March Against Post Office Closings\nWednesday, June 27, 4 
 PM\nGather at New Federal Building,  7th St at Mission, SF\n(Civic Center 
 BART/Metro)	\nMarch to Post Office slated to close.\n\nThis resolution by 
 the Letter Carriers tells the story:\n\nWhereas, in view of the devastating 
 attacks on the Postal Service that have been announced by the Postmaster 
 General – which threaten to eliminate 220,000 living-wage postal jobs 
 from our communities …. close 250 mail processing centers and 3,700 post 
 offices, mostly in poor and rural areas …. degrade service standards and 
 delay the mail by a minimum of 1 to 3 days …. eliminate 6-day delivery 
 and curtail door-to-door delivery of the mail, among many other proposed 
 cutbacks – altogether threatening the very survival of the people’s 
 Post Office which for over 200 years has provided universal mail service at 
 uniform rates to every part of the United States, and has the support of 
 the great majority of our people; and\n\nWhereas, the Post Office receives 
 no federal tax money. Its total income is derived from the labor and skill 
 of hundreds of thousands of postal workers who serve millions of customers 
 daily [and also maintain the nation’s largest fleet of trucks]. The Post 
 Office is a strategic “multiplier industry” in transportation and 
 communications, with up to 8 million workers in related industries, 
 depending directly or indirectly on the USPS for their livelihoods; 
 and\n\nWhereas, the postal system continues to thrive despite competition 
 from the internet, and despite the severe economic downturn. Postal 
 revenues just about matched expenses over the last four years – until 
 they slapped the USPS with an unprecedented $5.5 Billion a year charge to 
 pre-fund retiree health benefits, and drained away an additional $50-70 
 Billion by over-funding postal pensions (according to government reports). 
 This is a manufactured crisis, providing PMG Donahoe and the richest 1% 
 with their phony arguments that the postal system is broke – and 
 preparing the way for an attempt to sabotage, dismantle and privatize this 
 trillion dollar industry and run it for private profit; and\n\nWhereas, the 
 postal system belongs to the people. To safeguard our heritage, and ensure 
 that the interests of the people are being protected, the Post Office needs 
 to be publicly owned and run in the public interest.\n\nTherefore be it 
 resolved, that the National Association of Letter Carriers, working 
 together with the other postal unions, encourage the formation, in cities 
 and towns throughout the country, of Community/Labor Coalitions to Save 
 Postal Jobs and Services – to build a powerful nationwide movement to 
 defeat privatization, maintain living-wage jobs, expand postal services, 
 and save the Post Office as a public entity operating in the public 
 interest.\n\nResolution adopted 5/2/12 by unanimous vote of National 
 Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 214, meeting in San Francisco, 
 California. It will be submitted to the NALC National Convention, which 
 will be held July 23-27, 2012 in Minneapolis.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/20/18715851.php
SUMMARY:Demonstration and March Against Post Office Closings
LOCATION:Gather at New Federal Building,  7th St at Mission, SF\n(Civic Center 
 BART/Metro)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/06/20/18715851.php
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