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Community Meeting - 7 p.m. Thursday, December 19, 2013 at 2133 University Avenue (near Ace Hardware between Shattuck & Walnut)

12/15/2013

Los Angeles Times (December 7, 2013) "When the postal service announced plans to sell Berkeley's 1914 main post office, decorated in New Deal-era art, the town rose up." read more

Wall Street Journal (December 3, 2013) "New Route to Stop Sale of Berkeley, Calif., Post Office Zoning Measure Would Keep Facility Public, Chilling Its Market Value" read more

Watch WSJ Live on the struggle to save historic post offices.

We must organize to win!

1. The Zoning Overlay Ordinance to save Berkeley’s Historic Civic Center District and our historic Post Office has gained national attention. Let’s make it the law. Contact our Mayor and your City Council Member by Phone or Email, and ask him/her to vote YES.
We expect the Zoning Overlay to be on the Council agenda on January 21st or 28th, 2014.

2. Respond to the killing of the Letter Carrier, Tyson Jerome “T.J.” Barnette, after dark on November 23, 2013 in Maryland. He would never have been delivering mail after dark but for USPS mismanagement, under staffing, and the mass closings of mail processing centers. Monetary reasons are the why of after dark mail delivery.
The USPS must never again “lose a life to save a dollar.”

3. Protest the privatization of retail postal services in Staples stores. The USPS is out
to bust the union and take away the postal workers’ living wage salaries, so they’re making
Staples employees do the work. By using underpaid and under-trained workers,
USPS is putting the security and safety of our mail at risk.

4. Deteriorating services at our downtown post office are affecting our community. Some patrons can no longer pick up their mail at 2000 Allston and must travel to a post office that is farther from their home. And extra driving is required by letter carriers’ picking up their day’s mail from distant post offices. All this increases the burning of fossil fuels.
Documenting how the cutbacks hurt us will strengthen our legal actions. Mail to NPOC,
PO Box 1234, Berkeley, CA 94701. Or email to savetheberkeleypostoffice@gmail.com

Spread the word! Tell people about the meeting. Download a flyer. Help get the word out,

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12 Noon Tuesday, November 17, 2013: Honor the Memory of Slain Mail Carrier Tyson Jerome "T.J." Barnette

12/15/2013

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Tyson Jerome "T.J." Barnette

Singing on the Steps of the Berkeley Main Post Office -- 2000 Allston Way

Twenty-six year old Tyson Jerome "T.J." Barnette was shot and killed at 7:20 p.m. on November 23rd while delivering
mail in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
Barnette would never have been delivering mail after dark but for USPS mismanagement, understaffing, and the mass closings of our mail processing centers.
The manufactured USPS financial crisis is the why of after dark mail delivery.

Hali Hammer, Dave Welsh and Anna DeLeon will lead us in song.

On Tuesday, Tuesday, December 17th, 2000 Allston Way, Berkeley from 12 noon to 1:30 pm, join with us on the post office steps to honor the memory of “T.J.” Barnette.

Never again can we allow the USPS to “lose a life to save a dollar.”

Spread the word. Download and distribute a copy of the leaflet.

Click "Read More" for Tyson Jerome Barnette's obituary in the Rock Hill, SC, Herald and for the letter from Eleanor Holmes Norton to Postmaster General Donahoe.

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