Statement of National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando on today's Senate vote on S. 1789

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Apr 24, 2012, 03:23 ET

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando on today's Senate vote on S. 1789:

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"Voting for this bill without major changes is political and economic suicide; cutting more than 100,000 jobs when unemployment is sky-high makes no sense when there are good policy alternatives."

"Forcing tens of millions of Americans to install, at their own expense, curb-line mail boxes or neighborhood cluster boxes and opening their mail boxes to strangers will be deeply unpopular."

Read full statement here: http://nalc.org/news/latest/2012-04-24_1789_statement.html

SOURCE National Association of Letter Carriers