#Business
Target:
Postmaster General Donahue U.S. Postal Service
Region:
United States of America

As many of you have probably heard, despite all of our hard work the Postmaster General of the United States has unilaterally decided to ignore Congressional and public recommendations and begin the process of doing away with the current delivery standards for virtually all classes of mail.

As a component of the plan to severely downgrade delivery standards, the Postal Service has unveiled a plan to close 250 Processing Plants and thousands of Post Offices throughout the United States of America starting immediately.

The USPS Central Massachusetts Plant is on the list for immediate closure and the USPS has estimated that the move will cost 693 Central MA Postal Workers their jobs and annually pull millions of dollars out of the local economy. Nationally, the Postal Service expects these changes to result in the loss of more than 120,000 jobs when fully implemented, at a time when this country doesn’t have a single job to spare.

The Postal Service is the largest Public Sector Employer in the USA. It is also the Largest Employer of Veterans and Minorities, and is the second largest employer in the country overall. A huge section of our economy is directly tied to the Postal Service and the prompt dependable delivery of goods and services it provides the public at reasonable rates. This move will disrupt commerce throughout the country. But, the impact will be much worse in areas such as Central MA. Our State Government Townships, Small Businesses and industries, as well as our elderly, disabled, and our less fortunate citizens will all suffer as a result of these changes. The Postal Service has claimed that by closing this processing plant there will be a savings of 7 million dollars. In fact, due to increased transportation costs, rising gas prices and lower delivery standards it is more likely to cost the Postal Service millions of dollars instead of achieving any projected savings.

Central Ma Processing Center is the top producer in the District, Profitable, Top producer in the North East for its size, 57 acres of land, plenty of room for expansion, central to all major highways, increased mail volume while decreasing work hours, modern facility with a high work ethic. It makes absolutely no business sense to close Central Ma processing Center. It should be show- cased as a model facility.

We need folks to contact their legislators and ask them to take action to stop the Postmaster General before it is too late. Additionally, we are asking folks to please write into your local papers and object to these changes. Please sign this petition.

Thank you,

We the people of Central Massachusetts, the American Public, strongly oppose the closing of the Central Massachusetts Processing Plant located in Shrewsbury Massachusetts.

The DO NOT CLOSE CENTRAL MA PROCESSING PLANT petition to Postmaster General Donahue U.S. Postal Service was written by David West and is in the category Business at GoPetition.