Rally for Postal Heritage Day (249^th US Post Office Birthday)

Fri. July 26, 2024 Noon-1pm

East Portland Post Office, 1020 SE 7^th Ave

Save Our Service, Save Our Jobs!

Suspend DeJoy’s Ten-Year Plan!

The US Postal Service is a national treasure. On the 249^th anniversary of its9founding, we celebrate universal service at universal rates to 150 million American households and businesses, six and seven days a week.

Unfortunately, instead of sustaining, improving and expanding this essential service, the current Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, with his Ten-Year Plan, is cutting service and jobs in the name of efficiency.

In Oregon, the latest piece of the Ten-Year Plan is to transfer some of Eugene and Medford mail processing to Portland. It’s not hard to see how this “consolidation” plan delays the mail and costs the jobs of postal workers at the Eugene and Medford processing plants.

This year as well, half of Oregon’s rural post offices have lost their evening mail pick-up. This “Local Transportation Optimization” further delays the mail and cuts jobs.

The Ten-Year Plan is slowing the mail, raising prices, cutting and closing postal facilities, outsourcing postal work, paving the way for privatization of the US Postal Service.

We must protect vote-by-mail. We must protect the timely delivery of medicines, legal papers, and parcels. We must protect our vulnerable communities who depend on reliable postal service - seniors, veterans, rural and low-income residents, small businesses.

Sponsor: Communities and Postal Workers United,
Endorsed by: American Postal Workers Union local 128

National Association of Letter Carriers branch 82