PostalMag.com has received the following exchanges between APWU offices/officials fighting proposed post office closings:

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Friday, October 23, 2009

Brothers and Sisters:

I have more great news from California. President XXX XXX and members of the California Area Local 4635 are proud to announce that in addition to backing the USPS off on closing two La Puente stations (Barrett and City of Industry), they just got notification that three other stations in Torrence (Walteria, Marcelina and Del Amo) have also been removed from the list.  They got great support from their member of Congress, Jane Harmon.  They are still fighting on the closing of Hermosa and Redondo Beach stations.  Special thanks and recognition to XXX XXX, who is leading the fight in that local.  YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please see the link below for the excellent advice given to XXX XXX, President of the Schenectady, NY Area Local, who is waging the battle in Schenectady,  from XXX XXX.  Often it appears the USPS is just putting notices in the box holders PO boxes and calling that "public input".  XXX's advice to XXX is right on point.  Check out what the Greater CT Area Local is doing on this matter, you might get some great ideas for your own local’s fight.  XXX and XXX are keeping up the fight, way to go!

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

XXX sent me a copy of this letter. It’s the first one I've seen. There are public meetings in CT scheduled for the following week. It appears that management "public" input component to this process is to only contact the box holders and not the community at large. Our task is to organize the community together with all the other postal labor unions as well as any AFL-CIO unions and fill the meeting. It appears that you are on your way to doing that. Our local is planning to send a letter to every member that lives in that community asking them to attend, to get a flyer out to the community, handbill in front of the Stations, work with our coalition community groups to get the word out, contact all of our public elected officials, and to ask the State AFL-CIO to send out the meeting notice as well. I would hope that management would sincerely take the input from the community into consideration prior to making any final decisions...but it seems to me that they appear to be hell bent on closing some stations. Good luck and please keep me posted. Thanks

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

LETTER TO BOXHOLDER OVER CONSOLIDATION


THIS IS LETTER TO BOXHOLDERS. THERE IS A PUBLIC HEARING ON 11/5/09 AT 600PM AT THE SCOTIA GLENVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ON PRESTIGE PARKWAY. ALL SHOULD ATTEND AND PASS WORD AROUND BECAUSE IF NOBODY SHOWS THEY WILL CLOSE SCOTIA AND ANYBODY COULD BE NEXT. IF ANYONE KNOWS ANY BUSINESSES IN SCOTIA LET THEM KNOW. I HAVE MADE A FEW CALLS ALREADY