Save the Post Office

Fixing the United States Postal Service

by William Floyd, NALC Shop Steward, ret.

The first Postal roads connected Boston to New York and then to on to Philadelphia, in the late 1600s. President George Washington established the first Postmaster General to oversee all the village Post Offices and Post Roads in 1789. Today, we can choose from Fed Ex or United Parcel, or dozens of other delivery options. However, for over 100 million Americans, the NALC Mail Carrier brings important personal family messages and cards. At the same time, the Union carrier often represents the only friendly contact people have with their Government. The secure careers in the Postal Service have been favored by War Veterans. Especially Veterans of color. The Post Office was a safe haven from discriminatory practices, and whites-only rules and Laws in too many small towns and private businesses.

Congress and US Postal Service claim USPS is in the red for $4+ Billion.

Liquidate ONE Hundred Billion Dollars of Fort Knox Gold ¹

• Absolutely NO Layoffs of NALC, APWU, nor any other Union workers

• Raise Retirement/Health benefits 22% from last NALC/APWU contracts

• Co-Sponsor House bill HR 1351 – Stephen Lynch, 193 Co-Sponsors

• Hire Two million Youth under 25: New Postal Assistants (NPAs)

• Longest unemployed Youth hired first, inner cities, barrios, suburbs

• NPAs deliver Christmas packages, Special Delivery, Registered mail

• NPAs Ride Bicycles (where, and when practical)

• NPAs learn to fix, and later maintain their own, and Team Bikes

• One third of NPA income can be diverted to Parents-in-poverty,

separated spouses with children, or disabled family members.

• Saturday and Half-Sunday delivery, clerical duties by the new NPAs

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• Initiate new Postal Service SAVINGS ACCOUNTS for the general public, and possible 'victims-of-banking-by-phony-mortgage-papers'.

• Fund Postal Service MICRO-LOANS to Micro businesses, Women's and small businesses for the poor, Senior Art or Activity centers, and Centers for our maimed heroes from the Wars, and their children.

PAY – GO

PDWAmerica is committed to paying for each and every program. No risky private stock accounts for Social Security or Medicare crucial to blind, deaf, IED flamed Vets, and Iraq/Afghanistan para / quadriplegics.

Liquidate ONE Hundred Billion Dollars of Fort Knox Gold

1 - Please see “Lifeboat Option” by W. Floyd PDWA

Submitted by AFL-CIO unions, NALC shop stewards, and Veterans of Progressive Democratic Workers for America