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Does Leo Raymond really think the mailing industry should unionize?

Well, probably not- but you’d be forgiven for getting that impression from today’s “This Week in Postal” podcast. During today’s podcast it was suggested that the mailing industry has probably cut as many employees because of the recession as the USPS would cut if it went to five day delivery. At that point (about 29 minutes into the podcast) Leo Raymond, Vice President of the Mailing & Fulfillment Service Association, says “Congress does not worry about these people because they don’t have a PAC to support Congressional candidates. These are just individual company’s employees who again, don’t have leverage that the postal unions have. If the postal unions don’t like something they go marching up the hill, checkbook in hand, and they say look- don’t support us on this and we’re not your friends any more. That gets attention.”

Sounds like a glowing endorsement to me!

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