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Union Wants Mailmen To Thwart Terror Attacks
As the United States Postal Service looks at ways to cut budgets and deal with declining revenue, the president of the National Association of Letter Carriers is going against the grain by suggesting the agency should be increasing the services offered, including thwarting terrorists.
President of The National Association of Letter Carriers Fredric Rolando, has several ideas to increase the responsibility of some postal workers. Among them is to outfit postal trucks with sensors so letter carriers can thwart biological terrorist attacks, according to recent reports.
Rolando testified before Congress in March of 2011 that there were lots of ideas for new services that could be provided “adding to what letter carriers already do to protect community and national security.”
The role of letter carriers could be greatly changed according to Rolando. During a December 19th, 2010 interview on CNN he said, “They would be the first ones on the scene for disasters and so forth, weather issues. Because they’re the first ones in there, the only ones that can get in to every neighborhood on a daily basis. There’s things they could do with sophisticated scanners because they go everywhere.”
Rolando says these ‘first responder’ ideas are worth considering rather than the “short-sightedness” of cancelling Saturday delivery from the post office. That’s one of the options being looked at as the United States Post Office tries to make significant changes following the $8.5 billion dollar net loss the organization reported for fiscal 2010.
Before any of that, I wish Mr. Rolando would focus on teaching his membership how to read. The regular carrier on the route that involves my apartment complex is competent, but I can always tell when we had a sub on a given delivery day, because at around 5:30 to 6 PM, residents of my complex are going to each others’s doors en masse. The reason is that the illiterate moron substitute delivered half the mail in the wrong boxes. Often times, I’m part of this milieu – I either have to take wrongly delivered mail in my box to someone else’s door, or someone is bringing my mail that wrongly landed in their box to me. One day a few months ago I had to deliver to two different neighbors and someone had to deliver to me on the same day.
Actually, the bon mot I should use in this article isn’t “reading is fundamental,” but instead “follow the money.” What Mr. Rolando is angling at here is to portray letter carriers as someone crucial front-line foot soldiers on the “war on terror,” such that the USPS should get their hands in the well stocked “anti-terrorism” cookie jar.
