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Omar Fernandez: There have been so many people out supporting the postal service; it's encouraging to see so many people waking up to what's going on around us.
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO #SavethePostOffice
Omar Fernandez: People need the Post Office, for medicines, checks, communications to be delivered to them. We come right to your door, no extra charge, & we bring your packages right to you.
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO #SavethePostOffice
Omar Fernandez: My postal carrier is awesome. He walks the extra distance from my mail box to my front door to deliver packages right to the house.
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO #SavethePostOffice
Omar Fernandez: I would like to start doing something like Dinner with a Postal Worker, maybe at a local pizza shop. If the people come together, we'll get what we want. Let this be a rallying point for what we want.
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO #SavethePostOffice
Omar Fernandez: Because of COVID, we've needed so much overtime. The $25 billion stimulus money from the gov't would help replace the money we've had to spend on overtime.
We're non-profit. Most people don't understand that.
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO #SavethePostOffice
Omar Fernandez: The stimulus money would help us recoup costs from COVID that we haven't been able to. Letter rates haven't gone up although package rates have.
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO #SavethePostOffice
Omar Fernandez: Back in 2005, 2006 they did an investigation on the post office b/c all we heard was that we were losing money. We were doing fine; we just overpaid in our retirement.
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO #SavethePostOffice
Omar Fernandez: Then they came out w/ 2006 bill that made us save for 75 yrs of retirement in 10 years. We also had to pay the retirement for the vets who worked for us--the military no longer had to. It's like USPS had to subsidize the military.
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO
Omar Fernandez: Both parties need to keep their hands off the USPS. I don't mind efficiency but we have to get the politics out of the postal service.
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO #SavethePostOffice
Omar Fernandez: 2020 is the year when people will wake up & see what's going on. The people are the leaders--as long as the people want it, we absolutely can do it.
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO #SavethePostOffice
Omar Fernandez: There are more ppl who don't vote than do vote.During the abolition movement, the Whigs & the Dems were the main parties, & a tiny Republican party came in & completely decimated the Whig party. There's a movement for a 3rd party again
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO
Omar Fernandez: I have great insurance, but any time I need something done I need to do my own research: Is this doctor participating with my ins.? Is the facility participating? Is this service covered? I just want to go & get the care I need.
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO
Omar Fernandez: The unions are so powerful that when Social Security came out during the Great Depression, the unions forced the gov't to take care of the people. #1u #union
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO #SavethePostOffice
Omar Fernandez: The sleeping giant of the people needs to wake up. Come together, fix the country for all of us, & then start working on the trickier issues that we may not all agree on.
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO #SavethePostOffice
Omar Fernandez: The corporations have their two parties; why can't the people have at least one?
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO #SavethePostOffice
Omar Fernandez: Call your Senators at 1-844-402-1001 every. single. day. and tell them to pass the stimulus package with money for the post office.
@APWUnational @VermontAFLCIO #SavethePostOffice

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