In an effort to bring attention to the financial plight of the Unites
States Postal Service (USPS) and to fight calls for its privatization,
10 postal workers, activists, and supporters announced on Monday that
they would be staging a four-day hunger strike.
“The strikers will make their stand days before the postal service
makes changes that will end overnight delivery of up to 20 percent of
the country’s first-class mail, as mail-sorting hubs are shuttered,”
writes the Washington Post’s Lisa Rein.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich
(D-OH) joined the protesters on Capitol Hill for their big announcement
(which nobody saw because everyone was watching the Supreme Court this
morning) and offered words of encouragement.
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ReplyDeleteOne of my letter carriers drives up to my house, delivers my mail, gets back in the vehicle and drives 20 FT (NO JOKE) to my neighbors house. Let them eat cake!
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