by Timothy Rutt
A document is circulating among the news groups about a public meeting Tuesday evening to discuss the closure of the Pasadena mail processing center at Lincoln Avenue and Orange Grove Boulevard.
The meeting, for postal service employees and the general public, will be at the multi-purpose room at Robinson Park, 1081 N. Fair Oaks, Pasadena, from 6-8 PM Tues., Jan. 10. An employee at Robinson Park confirmed that the meeting is scheduled for that time.
The mail processing facility, as well as the Altadena post office on Lake Avenue, have been targeted for closure as the postal service looks to control costs.
The three page document includes:
- a notice to postal employees about the meeting (which was rescheduled from December),
- a summary of the proposed cost savings (about $6.6 million annually),
- and what is an apparently an example letter urging the local postmaster to retain a facility.
Among other things, the example letter contains attacks on Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries and the Cato Institute, a conservative think-tank, as well as two unnamed "Tea Party congressmen" and others who support postal service privatization.
See the document after the jump.
