Postal Service Wants To Cancel UPS Jobs
Teamster Action Needed


The U.S. Postal Service recently teamed up with a private carrier to create a new residential package delivery service, with letter carriers delivering packages that UPS Teamsters should be handling.

Rather than focusing on improving the delivery of first-class mail, the U.S. Postal Service continues to lure away UPS customers by using artificially low rates subsidized by profits from its' monopoly on first-class mail and the perks of being a government agency.

 

Job Threat
"This is a serious and direct threat to the jobs of Teamsters at UPS," said Dick Heck, Director of the Teamsters Parcel and Small Package Division. "Every UPS Teamster, their family members and friends, must speak out against this unfair competition."

According to figures compiled by the Coography Group, an Atlanta-based consulting firm, the Postal Service shipped nearly 45 percent of all U.S. domestic air cargo shipments in 1998.

Time for ACTION!
UPS Teamster voices must be heard throughout the halls of Congress. Join the fight in the Congress for real postal reform.

The U.S. House of Representatives may soon consider H.R. 22, the Postal Modernization Act of 1999. This bill will give the Postal Service additional leverage to complete for more of UPS' business, costing Teamsters their jobs.

The Teamsters are supporting an amendment to H.R. 22, the Latourette amendment. It strengthens oversight by the Postal Rate Commission and provides tools to hold the Postal Service accountable for the excess revenues that it receives from its first-class mail monopoly.
Teamster families are urged to write, call or e-mail their representative and urge that he or she support real postal reform by backing the Latourette amendment to H.R., 22.

For a copy of a sample letter or more information on postal reform and how it could effect you and your family, contact the Teamsters Government Affairs Department, (202) 624-8741.

  

Don't Let Postal 
Service Bosses Stamp 
CANCELLED
on Your Job!


Urge your member of Congress to "support the Latourette amendment to H.R. 22"

Call your representative today at (202) 225-3121 or write: Representative [name]

U.S. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515

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