Postal workers rally to save services

Published: Tuesday, Sept. 27 2011 6:16 p.m. MDT

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Postal service employees, their families and friends rally along Redwood Road in Salt Lake County to save the postal service on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011. Similar groups rallied in every congressional district in the country to inform the public about the actual financial situation at the U.S. Postal Service and to garner support for House Bill 1351, which would reverse a 2006 law that forces the USPS to lay aside billions of dollars to pay for future pension benefits.

Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News

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Postal service employees, their families and friends rally along Redwood Road in Salt Lake County to save the postal service on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011.

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Cottonwood Heights, UT

Sorry, Mailpersons, the math just does not work. Major, major changes are ncessary if the USPS is going to survive. That includes major changes in your contract and benefits, and the number of workers and numbers of post offices left to operate in More..

9:23 p.m. Sept. 27, 2011
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SME

Kearns, UT

The headline is misleading, postal workers are rallying to save their cushy jobs and benefits, not to save postal services. Talk to someone who has to try to manage postal workers, the union has tremendous power, postal workers convicted of drug use More..

7:09 a.m. Sept. 28, 2011
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CHS 85

Sandy, UT

@DN Subscriber,

I went to Fedex to send a letter across the country for three-day delivery and told them I'd pay $.46 and they couldn't do it for that price.

I'm not defending the USPS, but you can't just expect people to get More..

11:39 a.m. Sept. 28, 2011
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