Muncie postal workers are taking part in the National Day of Action by "occupying" the Memorial Drive Post Office in downtown Muncie.
The event, which will take place from 1 to 5 p.m., is meant to shed light on postal workers' disappointment on the impending closure of the Processing and Distribution Center at 4300 South Cowan Road, Muncie, Ind., located about three and a half miles south of campus.
Curtis Cary, a member of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch No. 98, said in a recent newsletter that the possible closures "will cause huge disruptions to mail service."
The organization is quick to point out that the postal service is funded by postage and not by tax dollars. Keeping its offices running won't lead to any kind of burden for the more than 150 million households and businesses it serves.
May 15 is the deadline for Congress to act before the Postmaster General begins a wave of closures to distribution plants to address the U.S. Postal Service's financial problems, which USPS representatives said spawn from a mandated retiree health care plan. The program, which started in 2006, calls for the USPS to spend nearly 10 percent of its budget to pre-fund retiree health benefits 75 years in advance. No other U.S. agency or private business is held to the same standards.
"If you care, you should act," Cary wrote in an address to the Daily News. "USPS is just fine the way it is, if it weren't for those payments."
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