LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) - The American Postal Workers Union holding a rally and speaking out against the federal workforce cuts on Thursday.
Union postal workers gathered outside the Lima Post Office despite the chilly and windy conditions to voice their opinions about cuts to postal workers across the country. The workers passed out information to anyone to inform them about the possible privatization of the postal service and how that could affect residents getting their mail going forward.
The workers passed out information to anyone to inform them about the possible privatization of the postal service and how that could affect residents getting their mail going forward.
We caught up with the local postal workers union president and asked him what that future could look like if mail was to be privatized and absorbed by the Department of Commerce.
"What that would look like is all of our rural areas across the country would be facing less delivery, potentially once a week, if even that - in some cases, you're looking at they're not even actually delivering mail," said Michael McKitrick, president of APWU Lima Local #438. "There's actually some locations out west that are already doing things like that, where they have a drop box, cluster boxes, where they have to literally go pick up their own mail, anywhere from 20, 30, 40, miles away just to get their own mail. We're looking at a whole group of people that are going to be affected. Some of those don't have the ability to even travel to make those."
McKitrick says residents can to reach out to local and state representatives and show support to their cause.
