USPS Center Closure Meeting
The Postal Service Center closure meeting in Springfield MO was a very eye opening success but not for the officials from the Postal Service.
Many locals from Small business owners, to Chamber of Commerce representatives, to Congressmen and Senator representatives, even live animal shippers voiced their concerns and the fact they will feel direct impacts against their businesses.
The USPS reps stated that the plan will ship all mail from Springfield to Kansas City (167+ miles). Also they plan on sending employee's to Kansas? That implies that if they want to remain employed they must travel or move their families creating more expenses in travel, housing ect.. How can this be a positive thing? Uprooting a family just to "keep" a job?
Congressman Long stated during the meeting that the Springfield area is one of the only districts growing in population in Missouri? Does it make sense to reduce service to local small businesses in the ONLY area of growth in Missouri? This area services about 1.2 million people about 1/5 of the the state.
In addition the USPS reps stated that the volume has decreased when in fact it has risen!
2008 - 222,536,250 - Mail increased approx. 10% from 2007
2009 - 255,986,336 - Mail increased approx. 15% from 2008
2010 - 278,150,583 - Mail increased approx. 9% from 2009
2011 - 274,564,422 with 5 days left in 2011
Bottem line will be a loss of about 65 good paying jobs in Springfield
Don't be shy and voice your opinions to the following
Manager, Consumer & Industry Contact
Mid-America District
300 W Pershing Road, Suite 207
Kansas City MO 64108-9631
Please postmark by January 19, 2012
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Amended information
Submitted by Occupy417 on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 10:33am.During this meeting Billy Long stated that he did NOT support privatization of the Postal service but it has been brought to our attention that he does support privatization, his signed document proves it. If you look at section 8 on the third page it says specifically " I will support legislation that ... privatizes government sponsored corporations .... such as USPS"
This is signed with his own handwritingon 11/09/2009.
So in the interest of transparency is is linked here.
Postal Consolidation
Submitted by tsmith on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 8:17am.This action has little to do with saving money for the postal service an alot to do with ultimatley getting rid of the postal union who I believe has around 650,000 members who mostly vote for Democrats. This has been on the Republican agenda for along time. I am sure our Republican represenative will do all he can to help.