Postal Service has a moratorium on assigning routes to private contractors

Postal Service won't add more private mail carriers
by Alliston SteeleFriday July 13, 2007, 1:11 PM



The U.S. Postal service has agreed not to hand over any of the country's new
urban mail routes to private companies, at least for the next six months.
All plans to contract out new mail deliveries, including a proposal for
building in Perth Amboy, have been withdrawn.


The agreement is a victory for members of the national letter carriers'
union, who have been concerned with the postal service's increased use of
part-time, non-union employees to deliver mail. Now, according to a contract
tentatively agreed on last night, a committee will be formed to look at the
issue of privatization.

In New Jersey, the postal service has also reversed its recent decision to
privatize routes in Little Falls, West Paterson and West Orange. And in
Perth Amboy, the building that the postal service had planned to assign to a
private contractor is now part of a city carrier's route.

"I was very pleased to hear that," Perth Amboy Mayor Joe Vas said. "I think
it's the right decision."

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