Postal Workers Push for Help from Congress

With a May 15 deadline looming, the American Postal Workers Union is pressuring Congress to pass legislation that would allow the U.S. Postal Service to fix some of its problems. Full-page newspaper advertisements urge residents to tell U.S. senators and representatives “to fix the USPS without destroying service or eliminating 100,000 jobs.” The Postal Service plans to close thousands of post offices, including many in Kentucky, and hundreds of processing centers, including the one in Bowling Green. Its plans require a $22.5 billion reduction in annual costs by 2016.