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*Their contracts prevent them from going on strike, but that didn’t stop postal workers from picketing Tuesday in Billings.*
Members of three postal unions organized an informational picket at the Main Post Office and said they’ll be back with their signs this afternoon at the Pioneer Post Office off Broadwater Avenue. Their goal: to convince the public that there are better ways of balancing the U.S. Postal Service’s budget than eliminating Saturday mail delivery.
“You can’t grow a business by cutting service,” said Shawn Smith, vice president of the American Postal Workers Union, which represents roughly 200 workers in the Billings area. “We don’t want people to start using other shippers. There are other alternatives to five-day delivery.”
The USPS, which ended last year with a $3.8 billion shortfall and projects a $7 billion loss in 2010, proposed doing away with Saturday service as a means of saving $3 billion to $5 billion a year. The change, if authorized by Congress, is not expected to take place until a year from now.
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