US Postal Workers Are Fighting Massive Service Cuts
Thousands of US Postal Service jobs are at stake under Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s modernization plan, which would close 200 mail processing plants and funnel all mail to 60 mega-plants. Postal workers are organizing to stop the plan.
A USPS worker delivers packages in San Francisco, California, on Monday, November 27, 2023. (David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Workers are battling an overhaul of the US Postal Service (USPS) that would cost thousands of jobs and slow the mail for half the country.
In the name of efficiency, a letter mailed within Cheyenne, Wyoming, would travel to Denver and back. And if you miss a package, your local post office would no longer have it. It might be forty-five minutes away.
In March, Buffalo became the first place to fend off the closure of its mail processing plant, in a team effort by Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 3 and Postal Workers (APWU) Local 374.
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