Postal Service Workers Rally Against ‘Manufactured’ Crisis

Postal workers and their supporters plan to rally in congressional districts across the country Tuesday afternoon, hoping to convince their representatives that cuts being considered to the U.S. Postal Service’s system and workforce are unnecessary and counterproductive. So far, their argument has been drowned out amidst grave declarations of a financial crisis at the agency.

Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), one of a handful of unions spearheading the rallies Tuesday, said his group has been trying to combat what he describes as misinformation surrounding the postal service’s real financial status. He said that large-scale cuts