Cutting Back on Mail Delivery

As a representative of more than 4,700 postal workers and a postal patron, I’m compelled to speak out on Postmaster General Marvin Runyon’s steps toward reducing service (“Cut in Mail Delivery to 4 Days Studied,” Oct. 15.)

Runyon’s demoralizing reorganization and its stressful impact on postal workers are bad enough, but gutting delivery service to the American people is cause for concern. America needs more service, not less. Americans deserve excellent postal service. Disrupting workers and cutting mail delivery undermine service.

We need fully staffed service windows instead of temporary transit workers. America deserves professional career workers with an investment in the future of the U.S. Postal Service.

In the Los Angeles area we face major reorganization with new management. Hopefully these managers realize the two most critical components of quality service: 1) the need of the American consumer; 2) the desires of American postal workers to service those needs without undue stress.

OMAR M. GONZALEZ

President

American Postal Workers Union

Greater Los Angeles Area Local