[via omjp]

Dear Friends,

Local, long-time labor and media activist, Clint Burelson has spent the past few months researching a very disturbing national trend: the privatization - through outsourcing - of our public mail system. This trend is about to escalate as part of an extensive plan to consolidate US Postal Service facilities nation wide. Locally, outgoing mail - which is currently processed at the "Olympia" facility in Tumwater - will now be sent to Tacoma for processing.

The media, including today's Olympian, portray this plan as an improvement in cost-saving and efficiency. This, despite the fact that Clint has provided to them (including the writer in today's Olympian) ample documentation that the trend, in fact, constitutes corporate profiteering which reduces efficiency, and increasing costs to the average citizen while reducing service to that citizen.

To learn more, listen to KAOS, 89.3FM tomorrow, Friday, March 24 at noon on Free and Fair with John Ford.

There will also be an article by Clint on this topic in the April issue of Works In Progress. But WIP will not have space to cover the issue nearly as in-depth as Clint will do on Free and Fair tomorrow. So, be sure to tune in if you can!

In Solidarity,

Sandy