Save the Colorado Springs Post Office
The USPS needs to hear from YOU in order to keep YOUR Mail Processing Pant HERE in Colorado Springs. If the Mail Processing Pant in Colorado Springs closes, your mail will have to go to Denver to be processed and then returned to Colorado Springs. This means the ELIMINATION of overnight delivery for our community. This increases the likelihood that credit card, mortgage payments and other time critical mail will be delivered late; resulting in potential late penalties and negative entries on your credit report.
As part of a misguided cost-cutting scheme, the Postal Service has announced plans to move mail sorting operations currently performed at the Processing and Distribution Center in Colorado Springs to the Processing and Distribution Center in Denver, approximately 75 miles away.Despite USPS assurances to the contrary, this “consolidation” will have a negative effect on service in the Colorado Springs area. Mail will be collected earlier in the day and arrive later – possibly after dark. Checks will be delayed; bills may not get paid on time, and medication delivered by mail will take longer to arrive.Sending our mail to Denver will mean a loss of jobs in Colorado Springs. It will also hurtlocal businesses. The Postal Service claims the move will “improve efficiency,” but it has failedto provide any real evidence that the plan would save money or that the current level of servicecould even be maintained.Instead of cutting service to the community, we need your support in urging Congress to correctthe real cause of the Postal Service’s financial deficit: the provision of the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act that requires the USPS to pay more than $5 billion annually to pre-fund future retiree healthcare costs – a burden that no other government agency or private company bears.The Postal Service should be permitted to use the surplus in its two pension funds — the CivilService Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) — to cover the cost of its future retiree health obligations. Three independent actuarial studies have confirmed the USPS has a surplus of between $50 billion and $75 billion in its CSRS pension account, and $6 billion to $7 billion in its FERS account.Because a healthy Postal Service is critical for a healthy U.S. economy, the APWU and otherpostal unions have asked President Barack Obama to take immediate action to save good postal jobs and stabilize the financial condition of the USPS.I hope we can count on you to support our efforts, and to oppose any consolidation plans thatwould reduce service and result in job losses in our community.
Sincerely,
Se flere underskriftsindsamlinger: 