Posted: Thursday, 26 October 2006
3:47PM
Protests Planned in Newark,
Bronx Against Postal Plan
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NEW
YORK (WINS) -- Postal workers are
uniting in protest against a nationwide postal service
consolidation plan. The plan, announced by the U.S. Postal Service in
July, could possibly close up to 139 processing centers
nationwide, and consolidate those services to other
locations.
Click
here for the Evolutionary Network Development Plan from
the USPS. (pdf)
Demonstrations are
going on today in Newark, the Bronx, and across the
country in places like Georgia and Texas as
neighborhoods face extensive mail delays, and some
postal workers could face layoffs.
.jpg) Elected officials and community
leaders will join the American Postal Worker's Union at
the picket line for what they call an informational
picket and press conference, to inform citizens about
the impending plan and the latest development in the
fight against closures.
Click
here for the list of possible closures submitted by the
USPS to the APWU. (pdf)
The plan
would go into effect Nov. 18th and critics say residents
will experience slower and less reliable service, with
mail being collected earlier and delivered later in the
day.
In Newark, postal workers say the mail
there could be delayed for as long as a week. In the
Bronx, parts of the local postal facilities will be
moved to lower Manhattan resulting in significant mail
delays as well as layoffs.
Community leaders
also say the consolidation plan will benefit big
business and corporations like advertising mailers, at
the expense of local businesses and citizens.
AUDIO: 1010 WINS' Steve Sandberg Reports
From Newark
No comment so far from the U.S.
Postal Service.
The photos in this article
were taken in the field by 1010 WINS reporter Juliet
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