Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports with bargaining over a new contract having apparently broken down, the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) and their allies are taking to the streets for mass rallies today (October 1st) to demand respect, a new pact and public input into U.S. Postal Service (USPS) decisions.  Dozens of Postal Workers Day of Action rallies are planned at Post Offices ranging from Seattle, Spokane to San Diego and Honolulu in the West to Minneapolis, Detroit and Springfield, Illinois in the Midwest to McAllen and El Paso, Texas and Key West, Florida in the South, Tucson in the Southwest and the Canarsie Station in Brooklyn, New York and Lewiston, Maine in the Northeast.  Key points in the bargaining are short-staffing, management stiffing the public - and the Union - and no progress in talks for a new contract.  “For too long, Postal Workers have been stretched thin, making miracles happen in understaffed facilities.  This has taken a toll on our health, our safety and our ability to provide the service the public deserves,” the APWU states.  Short-staffing shows up in an interactive dashboard from the Postal Regulatory Commission.  It notes the national target for on-time deliveries of first-class mail is 93%.  Nationally, the USPS misses that mark by seven percentage points and some of its districts are far below that.

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