Cities around the country including Kalamazoo saw rallies yesterday supporting funding for the US Postal Service and opposing recent cuts there.
Save our post office. Help protect union jobs. Santa, sorry my letter is late. Demonstrators carried signs with those messages and more outside a post office on Michigan Avenue with periodic support from motorists. Val Janowski’s sign called for the ouster of Louis DeJoy, the postmaster general and ally of President Trump whose cuts have slowed mail service this summer.
“This is a pivotal election and he is doing the bidding of President Trump trying to slow down the mail and he thought he’d get away with it," said Janowski. "And he’s not getting away with it. We’re calling him out and we’re calling him out fierce.”
Others at the rally urged the US Senate to pass a 25-billion-dollar funding package for the postal service...a bill that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has disparaged.