This program is slated to save taxpayers a ton of money.

Like unions care.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Postal workers in cities big and small protested in front of Staples stores on Thursday, objecting to the U.S. Postal Service's pilot program to open counters in stores, staffed with retail employees.

Rallies were planned at 50 locations in 27 states. In Concord, N.H., more than 100 boisterous workers donned bright blue shirts and lined a busy commercial road near a Staples store.

"Union busting, we say no," they chanted, "the Staples deal has got to go."

In New York, about 100 workers marched from the main office on 8th Avenue to a Staples store about five blocks away, carrying signs and chanting while in Washington, D.C., more than 200 people gathered at a Staples, drumming on buckets and holding signs that read: "Stop Staples. The US Mail is Not for Sale."

One of them, postal service maintenance mechanic Robert Black, called the pilot program "a back-door way of privatizing the post office" and taking away jobs from postal workers.

http://www.charter.net/news/read/article...ples_program-ap

That's the basics. Here are a few other interesting items from this story:

The American Postal Workers Union objects, because it says well-paid union workers have been replaced by low-wage nonunion workers. (A union spokesman said postal workers make $25 an hour on average, far more than retail clerks.) (emphasis added)

John Hegarty, president of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, which represents about 45,000 mail handlers, said the outsourcing endangers the sanctity and security of the mail.

"We are highly trained, skilled postal employees and they want to give it to employees who really don't know anything about the mail," he said Yeah, I'll bet sorting and delivering the mail requires a Ph D or the equivalent.

We already have postal services in my neck of the woods. No, not private mailers which are now quite common, but a local supermarket which has postal subunits within the store operated by its employees. I always go there because it's closer to my home and quicker for service.

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"We are highly trained, skilled postal employees and they want to give it to employees who really don't know anything about the mail,"

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Right asshole. Only you "professionals" can handle such important work....







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