There is something wrong with the US Postal Service. Only the other day at Cleary Square Post Office in Hyde Park in Boston customers exchanged some heated angry and loud words with clerks of Postal Office over the long wait at the queue. The incident became so big that it got the attention of city mayor. Some saw it as management issue, some call this has happened because postal offices all over US have not adequate staff.
Management issues or no, but it seems indeed US Postal Service is suffering from lack of personnel syndrome. It won’t take on board new people on its pay roll; it will contract out to individuals and private firms the delivery of mail in urban and semi urban, rural areas.
To protest on US Postal Service’s ever growing dependency on outside vendors, two labor unions, Members of the National Association of Letter and the National Rural Letter Carriers Association will demonstrate their protest against outsourcing on June 27.
The pickets will be held outside post offices or in neighborhoods where mail is currently being delivered by non-postal employees, Judy Willoughby, NALC national business agent, said in a release.
Pickets will be at the main Jacksonville post office on Kings Road from 4 to 6 p.m.
Picketing will also occur at Daytona, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Meyers, Jacksonville, two locations in Miami, Melbourne, Ocala, Orlando, Pensacola, Punta Gorda, St. Augustine, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Venice and West Palm Beach. Source
OUTSOURCING MAIL CAN ONLY LEAD TO PROBLEMS. HIRING MINIMUM WAGE PEOPLE, WITHOUT BACKGROUND CHECKS DONE FOR CARREER PERSONNEL WILL NOT ONLY LEAD TO MAIL THEFT, BUT ALSO IDENITY THEFT. IN THE LONG RUN IT IS CHEAPER TO HIRE CARREER PERSONNEL.
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