Posted on 06/25/2012 10:33:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Ten current and former postal workers launched a more than 3-day hunger strike Monday to protest looming cuts and closures at the U.S. Postal Service.
Drastic? Yes. But organizers say desperate times call for desperate measures.
The hunger strikers want the Postal Service to shelve its July plans to start closing or consolidating 48 mail processing plants. By the end of 2014, when the plan to shrink the postal network is completed, 229 plants will be consolidated or closed and 28,000 jobs will be gone.
They also want Congress to eliminate a mandate that has been a major financial drag on the service -- annual $5.5 billion payments to prefund health care benefits for future retirees. The strikers say say eliminating the mandate would solve the Postal Service's financial problems.
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And I should be concerned about this why?
Based on the guts in that pic, most of them could go a couple months before running short on body mass.
next new USPS stamp: the FOOD STAMP.
3 days?
Pikers.
Make it 3 weeks. Yeah. Then we’ll know they’re serious.
oh brother.
And I should be concerned about this why?
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Because a starving emaciated postal worker might not get the 3rd class junk mail to you on time.
That would be a pity, right?
At least they have not gone postal on the public...yet.
The state won’t achieve it’s quota for Food Stamp distributions.
“Based on the guts in that pic, most of them could go a couple months before running short on body mass.”
Beat me to it.
3 day hunger strike?
Probably the healthiest thing they ever did in their years at the Post Office.
Well, my carrier could stand to miss a few meals.
Judging from the guys pictured in the article, looks like they decided to parlay their doctors’ medical advice into a piece of political theater.
Here’s all you have to do to get a postal worker to go off the hunger strike.... you offer him a Drake’s Coffee Cake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZU05h3U2Hw
How much beer are they drinking? ;-)
“And I should be concerned about this why?”
I hope that they get around to our “satellite” Post Office here in Danville, CA. The people who “work” there think that they are doing you a favor to wait on you.
They are mostly minorities who can’t afford to live here, so they crap on those of us who pay them!
3 days is a “hunger strike”? At church they call that a “fast”. At the health spa it is known as a “cleanse”.
A true “hunger strike” involves starving oneself to death, if one’s demands are not met.
Yep, I just don’t see the “Bobby Sands” level of commitment here.
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