The nation’s postal unions and allies are fighting back against proposals to close post offices and mail processing centers, and change USPS regulations to eliminate overnight delivery of first class mail, and change two-day delivery to three days.  You can join by signing a petition to your senators and representatives to preserve the nation’s mail service. Click here or here to sign the petition.

The petition is part of the Save America’s Postal Service campaign, a joint effort of the Postal Workers (APWU), Letter Carriers (NALC), Mail Handlers, an affiliate of the Laborers (LIUNA), and the Rural Letter Carriers.

Over the next several weeks, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, the “super committee,” is supposed to produce a plan to reduce the federal deficit. It may include a package of proposals to fix the financial difficulties facing the USPS, which could mean drastic cuts in service. Earlier this month, a House committee passed a bill (H.R. 2309) that mandated $3 billion in cuts to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), including closing facilities, reducing door deliveries by as much as 75 percent, and laying off as many as 120,000 workers.

Last month, thousands of postal workers and their supporters held rallies in nearly 500 locations across the country, protesting the proposed cuts in jobs, postal facilities and service.

Click here or here to sign the petition to oppose plans to close post offices and mail processing facilities nationwide, and to reduce service services, which would result in drastic cuts in service to the American people.