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National Postal Mail Handlers UnionJacobin
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Postmaster General Louis DeJoy ’s ten-year “ Delivering for America ” modernization plan would close two hundred mail processing plants and funnel all mail to sixty mega-plants.
USPS is chasing its competitors Amazon , United Parcel Service (UPS), and FedEx , which already have bigger and more automated facilities like UPS Worldport hub in Louisville , Kentucky .
Last year , USPS carried fifty-nine billion pieces of first class mail, three billion periodicals, and seven billion packages.
USPS is still the biggest package shipper, though probably not for long.
There are 31,000 post offices in this country — one per zip code — more than Starbucks and McDonald ’s locations put together.
Postal unionists have their own vision for modernizing USPS : rather than cutting costs, raising revenue by expanding services.
Since letter carriers are already visiting every door, why not offer an option where they check in on elderly residents? USPS can do the work more cheaply in-house, by replacing workers with machines.
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