The Shallowford Road Postal Service facilityNeither rain, nor sleet nor windy weather could keep Tennessee letter carriers from protesting the proposed end of Saturday mail delivery.
About 150 USPS employees and their loved ones showed up on Sunday afternoon at the Shallowford Road Post Office.
“We want to do it six days a week,” said Joseph Ralph, a letter carrier who drove three hours from Kinsgport, Tenn., to join the rally.
Sporting matching blue T-shirts, megaphones and picket signs, the group rallied against the United States Postal Service’s proposed cutbacks in delivery.
According to The New York Times, the issue hasn’t been decided yet. A nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress issued a legal opinion Thursday stating that the Post Office does not have the authority to cut back delivery. The House of Representatives has submitted a spending measure to the president that would keep Saturday delivery.