According to the August payroll report of the Postal Service, dated September 6, there were 228,016 city letter carriers on the rolls and 226,984 clerks, making city carriers the largest USPS craft.
NALC Bulletin
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Who cares? What, are you guys in competition on who can lose, destroy, or drive up the cost of the mail or something? Maybe clerks are on the downtrend as you close those anchors you call rural post offices. Let the private sector fill the void of a useless PO.
Oh yes, the great and mighty saviour, the private sector that does every public function so much better...there must be hundreds of companies lined up and chomping at the bit to offer delivery services to isolated rural areas...
The APWU as a whole is the largest postal union still. So, what. If the "dead ass" officers of the NALC would be willing to give up their comfy jobs and think of being reality unionist, they would merge with the APWU. Strength is in numbers, not individuals, or single unions. One Postal Union, then brag about that, otherwise I don't even want to hear it. That sounds of Sombrottoism.
To the person who feels that Sombrottoism is what made the situation what it is, should go back in postal history & read on who is truly the person that is responsible for the postal strike of 1970. The one postal union was the idea of Morris "MOE" Biller. At the 1994 NALC convention, it was we carriers who wanted to split from the bargaining with the APWU. After the vote of 1994, this was the way our decision was made. At the present time, President Young is doing one hell of a job for the letter carriers. He is continuing the work that Past President Sombrottto started & is merging it with his agenda, to make a better life for the letter carriers that he leads. I do know that he has my support especially since he does speak his mind, at the last several conventions that I attended. It just happens that the electronic age will lower the clerks union membership since it will be the machines that will do most of the work. FROM LUMP'S LUMP
Why would the NALC want to merge with the APWU. If the NALC merged it would bring us all down. The NALC is 92% unionized. The APWU is about 75%. What does this show, it shows that the NALC protects and represents its members better than the APWU would ever do. I know so many clerks that want to join the NALC, but I never hear the fact that letter carriers want to join the APWU. One other thing, the person about who cares, and that it would be better to privatize the post office, does not understand how that would affect him and this whole country. Thirty-seven cents would go up to about seventy-five cents a letter. Profit would come first.
And artificially creating work to create a demand on jobs at high UNION wages and benifits is better? The USPS is BLOATED because of its NON-PROFIT and therefore INEFFICIENT mentality. You are so worried about stamp prices, but tell me about why other USPS services are so high compared to the private sector:
Heavy and large packages USPS parcel post only, slow, untrackable 70 lb package coast to coast: $120.72 dims 32,24,24
UPS daily pickup: $38.98
The USPS constantly lies to the public about Delivery confirmation being "tracking" and that Priority Mail being a 2day service. The private sector would never get away with lying consistently like this without legal repercussions. The USPS can subsidize and lie all they want to. The bloated USPS needs to be smacked around, downsized, and sold off in pieces and our man BUSH is the one to do it. Go vote for Flip Flop, like he even gives a damn. We will grease his palm too if by some miricle he is elected. Democrats these days are elephants in donkey clothing.
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Who cares? What, are you guys in competition on who can lose, destroy, or drive up the cost of the mail or something? Maybe clerks are on the downtrend as you close those anchors you call rural post offices. Let the private sector fill the void of a useless PO.
Oh yes, the great and mighty saviour, the private sector that does every public function so much better...there must be hundreds of companies lined up and chomping at the bit to offer delivery services to isolated rural areas...
get real!
The APWU as a whole is the largest postal union still. So, what. If the "dead ass" officers of the NALC would be willing to give up their comfy jobs and think of being reality unionist, they would merge with the APWU. Strength is in numbers, not individuals, or single unions. One Postal Union, then brag about that, otherwise I don't even want to hear it. That sounds of Sombrottoism.
To the person who feels that Sombrottoism is what made the situation what it is, should go back in postal history & read on who is truly the person that is responsible for the postal strike of 1970. The one postal union was the idea of Morris "MOE" Biller. At the 1994 NALC convention, it was we carriers who wanted to split from the bargaining with the APWU. After the vote of 1994, this was the way our decision was made.
At the present time, President Young is doing one hell of a job for the letter carriers. He is continuing the work that Past President Sombrottto started & is merging it with his agenda, to make a better life for the letter carriers that he leads. I do know that he has my support especially since he does speak his mind,
at the last several conventions that I attended.
It just happens that the electronic age will lower the clerks union membership since it will be the machines that will do most of the work.
FROM LUMP'S LUMP
Why would the NALC want to merge with the APWU. If the NALC merged it would bring us all down. The NALC is 92% unionized. The APWU is about 75%. What does this show, it shows that the NALC protects and represents its members better than the APWU would ever do. I know so many clerks that want to join the NALC, but I never hear the fact that letter carriers want to join the APWU. One other thing, the person about who cares, and that it would be better to privatize the post office, does not understand how that would affect him and this whole country. Thirty-seven cents would go up to about seventy-five cents a letter. Profit would come first.
And artificially creating work to create a demand on jobs at high UNION wages and benifits is better? The USPS is BLOATED because of its NON-PROFIT and therefore INEFFICIENT mentality. You are so worried about stamp prices, but tell me about why other USPS services are so high compared to the private sector:
Insurance
USPS $2.20 for $100 coverage, UPS free, additional $100 .35 cents
Heavy and large packages
USPS parcel post only, slow, untrackable 70 lb package coast to coast: $120.72 dims 32,24,24
UPS daily pickup: $38.98
The USPS constantly lies to the public about Delivery confirmation being "tracking" and that Priority Mail being a 2day service. The private sector would never get away with lying consistently like this without legal repercussions. The USPS can subsidize and lie all they want to. The bloated USPS needs to be smacked around, downsized, and sold off in pieces and our man BUSH is the one to do it. Go vote for Flip Flop, like he even gives a damn. We will grease his palm too if by some miricle he is elected. Democrats these days are elephants in donkey clothing.
The vast majority of priority mail makes it there before so called ups 2day(actually 4day) air.
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