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Monday 30th October 2006 07:57
PM |
Rally Thursday to save quality
mail service
By Workday staff 29 October
2006
| MINNEAPOLIS - Postal
Workers will picket Thursday, Nov. 2, outside the main
Minneapolis Post Office to oppose proposals to undercut
quality mail service. |
The demonstration will run from 11 a.m.
to 1 p.m. outside the post office at 100 S. First St.,
downtown Minneapolis.
The event is part of "a
national week of picketing to inform citizens and press
about a recently uncovered secret Postal Service plan
that could hurt mail service in Minnesota, Minneapolis,
St Paul and surrounding suburbs," the Minneapolis and
St. Paul locals of the American Postal Workers Union
said.
"If implemented, the plan could mean
slower, less reliable service for our area. Mail would
be collected earlier, but delivered later in the day and
could be delayed an entire week or longer."
The
U.S. Postal Service, with the support of large
advertising mailers who presort their mail, has been
pursuing a policy of consolidating operations.
The APWU has set up a hotline, 1-877-7-OUR-MAIL,
to provide more information on its Save Our Service
campaign.
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