Save the post office. Call Judy Biggert

Now's not the time to close post offices and cut hundreds of thousands of jobs. Make a call to help save the post office! Learn more about this campaign Call Rep. Biggert: Save the post office! Dear Friend, We need to save the post office. The Postmaster General wants to close over half of the mail processing centers and over 3,000 mostly rural post offices. And his plan includes laying off almost 220,000 workers. In this economy, that's the last thing we need. Reps. Jerry Connolly (D-VA) and Don Young (R-AK) have written a letter to the House leadership, urging them to take action to save the Post Office — and enact reforms that continue to ensure that all areas of our nation continue to enjoy access to the U.S. mail service. This is a bipartisan problem and a bipartisan letter. For this letter to gain momentum, we need as many representatives as possible, Democrats and Republicans alike, to sign on — and your representative, Rep. Biggert, has not yet signed on. Call Rep. Biggert and tell her to co-sign Rep. Connolly and Rep. Young's dear colleague letter and help save the post office. Click here for a sample script and the number to call. Collectively, all the post offices being considered for closure account for a miniscule amount, four-tenths of one percent, of the postal service's annual budget. As one former Postmaster General said, "That's not even a drop in the bucket. The bucket won't ripple."1 It's true the post office faces financial challenges. But the financial problems are in large part a direct result of an onerous and ill-considered 2006 law that mandates that the postal service pre-fund its retiree health care and pension benefits for 75 years — something that no other government agency or private company is forced to do. The vast majority — some 85 percent — of the red ink comes from this pre-funding mandate despite the fact that, according to the Post Office Inspector General, the pension is over-funded and reserves for retiree health care are far higher than the federal government as a whole, the military and almost all Fortune 1000 companies.2 Simply modifying the 2006 pre-funding mandate would provide considerable breathing room for the post office. And while some changes to the post office are certainly necessary to preserve and improve it in the 21st century, now's not the time to close post offices and cut hundreds of thousands of jobs. Call Rep. Biggert and tell her to co-sign Rep. Connolly and Rep. Young's dear colleague letter and help save the post office. Click below for a sample script and the number to call: http://act.credoaction.com/call?tg=FHIL_13&cp_id=209&id=37351-5191227-FJKQyvx&t=8 Thank you for your activism. Ali Rozell, Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets 1. "Special Report: Towns go dark with post office closings," Reuters, 02-14-12. 2. Letter from United State Post Office Inspector General David C. Williams to Senator Bernie Sanders, dated 02-06-12. © 2012 CREDO. All rights reserved. To remove yourself (Democratic Party DuPage County) from this list, please visit our subscription management page at: http://act.credoaction.com/s?i=37351-5191227-FJKQyvx To change your email address or update your contact info, please visit: http://act.credoaction.com/subscrip/coa.html?id=37351-5191227-FJKQyvx