KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – Congressman Fred Upton wants local officials to protest changes to the Postal Service that could further delay deliveries.
The proposal would force postal carriers from a multi-county area to travel daily to the 9th Street Postal Center in Oshtemo to pick up their deliveries and their trucks, rather than from local post offices.
Upton says its going to waste gas, endanger the lives of postal workers and decimate their morale, because some employees will be forced to commute 100 miles a day or more on their own dime.
The Republican Congressman says he won’t be around next year when the changes could take effect so he wants local boards and commissions to write the Postmaster General and protest the plan.
Congressman Fred Upton, with local governmental officials at his office in Kalamazoo Nov. 7, 2022 (courtesy John McNeill)
Upton was flanked by a number of those officials as he made his pitch at a Monday morning news conference at his district office in Kalamazoo.
Keven Trayer with the Michiana Area Association of Postal Supervisors says it could be another step toward cutting the hours or even closing local post offices.
(reporting from John McNeill)
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