Statement by Clint Burelson, President, Olympia Local, American Postal Workers Union
Union and community resistance to Postal Service consolidation plans are making big corporate mailers such as Time Warner nervous. Read the rest of this entry »
Jim Logan explains the difference.
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A nice essay in the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
“As a letter carrier for five years in south Minneapolis I have seen what illegal immigrants can do. I watched neighborhood after neighborhood clean up because of illegal immigrants. Bloomington Avenue, 15th, 17th, Pleasant, Pillsbury all went from brown and sad-looking to green and blooming.”
read the rest: Birgitta Sundstrom: See what immigrants have done here
For a chuckle, google the word ‘failure’- (you can use the Google box at the bottom of this page), and see what the first entry is!
Thanks to the Associated Press for the story. (And thanks also to the ‘Italian postal police’ who are said to be investigating the Berlusconi case. I’m guessing they’ve got a lot of spare time on their hands?)
WASHINGTON, April 7 — The office of Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, issued the following press release:
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) today announced that the United States Postal Service (USPS) will hold a meeting on the proposed consolidation of the Siouxland Mail Processing Operations. The meeting will take place Thursday, April 20th at 10 AM at the Sioux City Convention and Conference Center on 801 Fourth Street. The meeting will be open to concerned residents and attended by Sioux City Chamber and government officials, Harkin staff and representatives of the USPS.
A postal customer/blogger asks a question I’ve pondered myself- why do we offer “tracking” that doesn’t provide any useful information?
The Stamp Collecting Round-Up notes the four stamp Ben Franklin commemorative set being issued, but the really cool thing in the story is the portrait of Franklin constructed entirely of stamps- 1,800 of them!
Lobbyist Mickey Barnett, nominated by George Bush for a seat on the USPS Board of Governors, is still actively pushing the cause of payday loan operators in his home state of New Mexico- from last Sunday’s Albuquerque Journal:
The following is a letter to the editor of the Olympian from Clint Burelson, President of the Olympia Local of the American Postal Workers Union:
The Olympian’s editorial, “Let the Postmark Go,” and its articles concerning mail consolidation failed to report important information relevant to the issue of mail consolidation in general and the Olympia consolidation in particular.
In a letter to Senator Susan Collins, former New Mexico GOP whip Earlene Roberts says that BOG nominee Mickey Barnett has “engaged in ‘Jack Abramoff’ style politics here in New Mexico”. Roberts went on to suggest that “Mr. Barnett’s questionable political activities… make him unfit and unqualified for public service”.
