Cinco De Mayo 🇲🇽🌮🎉 :: Retail Therapy Guide 5/5/2023
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Luminary Advanced Aesthetics Half Birthday Event!
EID Celebration
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3 New Trees Grow In Beacon - "A Tree City" :: Planted In Time For Arbor Day
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After almost 2 years of being identified by Beacon’s Tree Advisory Committee as good plots for trees to grown in, the City of Beacon has planted 3 new trees on Main Street, the City Administrator Chris White announced during a City Council Meeting on April 24, 2023, just days before Arbor Day.
“I’d like to thank the Highway Department for planing tress. At Rite Aid, 2 tree wells were filled with old roots. They did an amazing job. [Took] several days work to dig those out.”
Pete Bailey, the Chair of the Tree Committee, said that the plot across from Beacon Reads also received a new tree, but not before a tree stump was dug out first to clear the area.
The Beacon Reads tree was chosen as the location for the City of Beacon to hold its annual Arbor Day event. Because of its designation as a Tree City, the City of Beacon must hold a tree planting event and read the Arbor Day Proclamation, Pete said.
The Tree Committee identified the three plots in a list of other location recommendations back in the fall of 2021, Pete told A Little Beacon Blog. Said the City Administrator during the City Council Meeting: “In addition the one we are doing for Arbor Bay, 20 new trees are being planted. Each year we are trying to ratchet that up a bit.” It has not been announced during a City Council Meeting where or when those 20 new trees are scheduled to be planted.
Pete confirmed to ALBB that the type of tree planted was a Little Leaf Linden. “It is a beautiful spring blooming flowering tree. It doesn't drop any fruit, grows quickly but is more vertical. It is a great tree for Main Street.”
People interested in donating a tree can do so through the City of Beacon’s website. Perhaps if it is being done in memoriam, it will be planted sooner.
Eviction and Housing Rights Education Event Scheduled For Tenants To Know Their Rights - Hosted at Beacon Public Library
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An eviction and housing legal rights education event is scheduled for tenants to be more informed about their rights, as increasing number of Beaconites are being served eviction notices by landlords and property management companies, including those who serve a low income population like Tompkins Terrace, who recently received a 40 year tax break to continue to provide affordable housing to people with low incomes.
Hosted through the joint efforts of the Hudson Valley Justice Center and Community Voices Heard, the event will be free for all to attend at the Beacon Howland Public Library in Beacon, New York on Saturday, May 6, 2023 from 11am to 1pm. The library is located at 313 Main Street, Beacon, NY 12508 across from Subway and Hudson Valley Food Hall, and near Royal Crepes. Grab some lunch after!
This event is designed to help educate and empower individuals and families about their rights as tenants in the Hudson Valley region. If you are told of a rent increase, served an eviction notice, or verbally or text threatened with a demand by your landlord or property management company, this is an event you will want to attend so that you can be better prepared in how to respond.
During the event, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about various housing-related issues including:
eviction procedures
landlord-tenant laws
Additionally, attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and receive free legal advice from experienced attorneys and housing advocates.
The "Housing Know Your Rights" event is free and open to the public. For more information about the "Housing Know Your Rights" event, please visit the Hudson Valley Justice Center's website or contact HVJC at (914) 308-3490.
The Hudson Valley Justice Center is a non-profit organization that provides legal and advocacy services to low-income individuals and families in the Hudson Valley region. The center's mission is to ensure equal access to justice for all members of the community, regardless of their income level.
Community Voices Heard (CVH) is a member-led, multi-racial organization principally comprised of women of color and low-income families in New York State. CVH tackles tough issues and builds power to secure racial, social, and economic justice for all New Yorkers. Through grassroots organizing, leadership development, policy changes, and creating new models of direct democracy CVH is creating a truly equitable New York State.
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Wee Play Community Project Presents: 19th Annual Ree-Play Sale
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Career Fair Open Call For All Businesses To Represent To Beacon High School Students
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Once again, the Beacon High School Career Fair has issued its open call to all types of businesses to participate in this year’s 2023 Career Fair on Friday, May 19th from 10:30am - 1:30pm. Registration is open now and can be done online here.
Last year was the fair’s first time back after the forced closure from the pandemic, and the fair’s organizer and Restorative School Councilor, Michele Pohlmas, who was in her 17th school year, was thrilled to bring businesses and students back together again. “This event gives the students the opportunity to explore what they may be interested in, once they begin the next chapter of their life after their time here at Beacon High School.” See a video interview with Michele below.
Participating in the Career Fair is a great way to connect with students and to feel the vibe of what the current generation is really like. A Little Beacon Blog and Tin Shingle have participated for a number of years, and we are always touched by the quiet students who approach our table to share how they love to write or draw, and are looking for avenues for which to do that.
How To Register To Participate In Beacon High School’s Career Fair
Businesses who have participated in the past include include illustrators, journalists, entrepreneurs, emergency responders, barbers and hair stylists, drone flyers, and so many others.
The annual career fair will take place on Friday, May 19th from 10:30am - 1:30pm. Each participant will have a table on which they can display items which represent their career/profession and can serve as talking pieces with our students. A light breakfast and set-up will begin at 9:30am and lunch will be served around 11:30am.
Businesses RSVP/register by clicking on this link. Don’t be shy!
Contact Ms. Michele Polhamus, School Counselor, with any questions or concerns. 845-838-6900 Ext. 3025/polhamus.m@beaconk12.org.
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Beacon Free Loop Bus Seeks Feedback From Community - Marist Student Run - Study Seeks Change
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The Beacon Free Loop Bus began rolling down Main Street in 2018, the result of a collaboration between BeaconArts, the City of Beacon, and Dutchess County. Former BeaconArts president Kelly Ellenwood helped spearhead the partnership with her artistic conviction that new branding would help the bus increase ridership and help people get around Beacon for free.
Now, the Beacon Free Loop Team is seeking ways to improve the bus to make it more accessible with this online survey, open until the end of April. The study is being conducted by the student-run PR firm out of Marist College, North Road Communications, who was an original partner in the origin of the Free Loop Bus.
A new Free Loop Bus Sign from when the bus first launched.
The big blue bus replaced the G-route from Dutchess County Public Transit, and with help from various funding sources, eliminated the bus fair to make it free. They wrapped the bus in a design based in pale blue, and altered the route so that it included more popular stops in Beacon for people to enter and exit.
Running in alignment with the Beacon train schedule, the new amenity was celebrated in Beacon. It has made changes since then, such as stopping at designated stops, instead of the “Wave and Ride” concept it launched with. According to the organizers, Beacon’s Main Street got too busy for impromptu stopping.
Free Loop Bus Schedule
The Loop Bus increased the number of stops in Beacon, but Dutchess County’s bus schedule doesn’t include all of the stops.
According to the bus stop signage, the designated stops include:
Beacon Train Station
Dia: Beacon
Route 9D & Main Street
Main Street & Cliff Street
Main Street & Veterans Place (near the Post Office)
Beacon Theater (the movie theater)
Tioronda Avenue & Route 9D (Wolcott Avenue)
Route 9D (Wolcott Avenue) & Howland Avenue (Mount Beacon parking lot)
Howland Avenue & East Main Street
Main Street & Route 52 (Fishkill Avenue)
W. Center Street & Teller Avenue
Forrestal Heights (apartment complex)
Beacon Street & Wolcott Avenue
Take the online survey now. It’s quick, easy, and has room for your ideas.
Muslims In Beacon Celebrate Eid ul-Fitr At Memorial Park To Complete Ramadan
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Masjid Ar Rashid (the Islamic Teaching Center) led the community of Muslims in and near Beacon in a celebration of Eid ul-Fitr, (“Festival of Breaking Fast”) at the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
The mosque led Takbir at 8:00am and Eid prayer at 9am in Memorial Park. Muslims brought their prayer mats and laid them on a tarp, as the grass was wet. Men, women and children came out to enjoy the sunshine, pray, and see each other.
For a refresher on what is celebrated during Ramadan, read this article from Izdihar Dabashi. If you see someone celebrating the day, it is joyous to say to them “Happy Eid” or “Eid Mubarak.” And remember, if you hear the call to prayer (adhan) from the mosque, this is what it means. Take a moment to take in some peace!
Muslim Women during Eid at Memorial Park.
PHoto Credit: Masjid Ar Rashid.
Muslim Men getting ready to pray during Eid at Memorial Park.
PHoto Credit: Masjid Ar Rashid.
Locations For Beacon's Earth Day Cleanup: 9-12pm: Walk-Ins Welcome!
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City Of Beacon's Earth Day Cleanup
Days: Saturday April 22, 2023
Time: 9am-12pm
Location: Several. Signup for the location you want. But you can also just show up! The locations and meeting points are below:
Location for “East Side Of Creek: Grandview/South Avenu at the Tioranda Bridge”
South Avenue Elementary School: Main Entrance
South Avenue Park: Beacon Recreation Lot (23 West Center Street)
Sargent School: Main Entrance
Rombout Middle School: Memorial Park in the Pavilion Parking Lot
Rocky Glen and Rte. 52: Rte. 52 & Mill Street
Teller Woods: Guardrail on Teller Avenue (opposite from Ballet Arts 107 Teller Avenue)
East Side of Creek: Grandview/ South Avenue at the Tioranda Bridge. Enter from 9D down Grandview, near the Craig House and across from Beacon's University Settlement Camp. ALBB has posted a picture of it on the map here, provided by Green Beacon Coalition.
JV Forrestal School: Playground Entrance
East Side of Beacon: Stone and Liberty Street
12pm - 3pm: Hudson Valley Brewery.
Conservation Advisory Committee program outreach and social.
One free drink ticket will be provided to volunteers 21+ and a discount on Groundlings pizza. Non alcohol beverages also available.
Come to celebrate Beacon and learn about electrification, composting, trail development and pollinator pathways.
Information >
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Thrift Store Launched From Beacon High School Students For Gender Equality Club - Here's How To Donate
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Editor’s Note: This announcement has been written by the BHS Students Gender Equality Club, and retained their voice.
Beacon High School Students for Gender Equality Club is beginning a school-wide thrift store that is 100% run by donations of pre-loved clothes, non-perishable food items, and toiletries, to give directly to our students from the Beacon community. It is open for students, teachers and staff on Thursdays and Fridays in the morning before Homeroom, and after school from 2:15-3:45pm (please note these hours may change by the time you read this article, so please check with their Instagram).
How To Donate Clothes, Food and Toiletries
All clothing donations must be pre-approved to ensure that each item is suitable for wear. This can be done by sending a simple email with photos attached of each item, including any possible signs of wear and tear, to bhs.thrifts@gmail.com
Please understand that every item may not be selected.
Students and faculty members can bring their pre-approved clothing items, non-perishable food, and toiletries to boxes outside of the school store located in the lobby.
Community members without a direct relation to BHS can send an email to bhs.thrifts@gmail.com to have a representative from S4GE look through items. Once items are approved, they can be brought to BHS and left with Security.
Currently, we are looking for prom attire (dresses, suits, dress shirts, dress shoes, heels and accessories). Our hunt for prom attire will end April 8th. We already have a prom dress surplus so please consider donating other prom attire. Dresses will be considered, but possibly not selected.
We are going to continue to take donations of other school appropriate clothes, non-perishable food and toiletries until June 1st.
Please understand this is a completely self-sustaining student run store, meaning, there is no compensation besides the joy of the good deed :)
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Interview With Junior Zayed Dabashi About The Call To Prayer Spoken From The Mosque Speakers and the Eid al-Adha Community BBQ
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Mo Dabashi, for Eid, where the first prayer started at 9am.
PHoto Credit: Masjid Ar Rashid
Women at the Eid al-Adha Community BBQ.
Photo Credit: Masjid Ar Rashid
As foot traffic picks up on the sidewalks of Beacon’s Main Street, more people are walking by and entering the Masjid Ar Rashid Islamic Teaching Center, next to Beacon Natural and across from the Post Office. Some people are looking at their phones saying: “I found it! The mosque is right here. Let’s go in.” Other people, when they hear the Arabic coming from the speakers on the outside of the building say: “What is that sound?” if they don’t speak Arabic.
To answer that question, ALBB interviewed Junior Zayed Dabashi in July 2022 after a community BBQ at the mosque for the the 2nd Eid al-Adha. Junior is on the board of the mosque.
Photo Credit: Masjid Ar Rashid
ALBB: When we hear a voice coming from the speaker, what is its meaning? What is he saying?
It is the call to prayer (adhan). Muslims pray 5 times a day, and it is a reminder to leave everything be and pray.
They are calling people to prayers by saying:
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar,
(God is the greatest, God is the greatest)
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar
(God is the greatest, God is the greatest)
Ash-hadu an’ la ilaha ill Allah,
(I bear witness that there is no God but Allah)
Ash-hadu an’ la ilaha ill Allah,
(I bear witness that there is no God but Allah)
Ash-hadu ana Muhammadan Rasoolallah,
(I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah)
Ash-hadu ana Muhammadan Rasoolallah,
(I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah)
Hayya ‘alas-Salah,
(Rush to prayer)
Hayya ‘alas-Salah,
(Rush to prayer)
Hayya ‘alal Falah,
(Rush to success)
Hayya ‘alal Falah,
(Rush to success)
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar,
(God is the greatest, God is the greatest)
La illaha ill Allah
(There is no God but Allah)
ALBB: At today’s community BBQ, I chatted with a girl who was in the area for business. She was looking for something to do, heard about today’s BBQ at the mosque, and had her taxi driver drive her here. Are you noticing an increase in new visitors?
Yes.
ALBB: What was today’s community BBQ celebrating? Was it open to all?
Junior Zayed Dabashi and Kamel Jamal at the cookout.
Photo Credit: Masjid Ar Rashid
Today we celebrated Eid al-Adha, which is also called the "Festival of the Sacrifice.” It is the second of two Islamic holidays celebrated. During Eid, we do Eid prayers, animal sacrifice, charity, social gatherings, festive meals, gift-giving. Anyone can come. It is open to all.
ALBB: Is lamb traditionally served?
Yes. Lamb or cow. There are other ways you can help the less fortunate with paying for their lamb or cow, and you don’t have to do it for your home. It’s a nice chance for a family gathering.
Kids playing in the bouncy house placed in the parking lot of the mosque.
Photo Credit: Masjid Ar Rashid
ALBB: Is sharing with family and friends encouraged?
Yes, but you don’t have too. Most Muslims get together with family.
ALBB: How many Imams are leading the mosque? I didn’t realize Mo is a Imam!
We have 2. Mo helps outs when needed.
You can read about Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr from Junior’s niece Izdihar Dabashi here at ALBB.
Last Day To Vote For A Little Beacon Blog For Best Of Hudson Valley 2023
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Best of Hudson Valley Magazine 2023 ends tonight at 5pm!!
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The Elimination Ballot for Best of the Hudson Valley ends tonight at 5pm.
Beacon Post Office To Stay Open - BUT Carriers Being Re-Routed To Newburgh To Pick Up Mail And Drop It Off. Trump Appointed Postmaster General Thinks This Efficient
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Editorial Note: This article has been updated to include accurate and updated information, terminology, and the latest response from the City of Beacon in their City Council Workshop meeting last night.
The Beacon Post Office is not closing - as of now - despite rumors and two local publications misunderstanding the information (WRRV and ALBB) and who have both issued corrections. However, with the flurry of articles concerning the posts offices in the Mid Hudson area that are slated to undergo a big change, came answers of clarification from the USPS and the City of Beacon. Let’s dive in.
But First, Answers To Some FAQs:
Is Beacon’s Post Office protected as a historic place?
Yes. Thanks to a tip from an anonymous citizen reporter, Beacon’s Post Office is listed on the State and National List Of Historic Places, as identified in Beacon’s Comprehensive Plan on pages 40-41.
Will Glenham’s Post Office be closing?
According to Steve Hutkins of SaveThePostOffice.com, “Haven’t heard anything about Glenham, but it appears to be a small office with no letter carriers, so it wouldn’t be part of the plan. The plan is just about relocating carriers from those post offices that have them.”
At Least 200 Post Offices Nation-Wide Will Become “Spokes” and Will Stop Being A Hub For Local Delivery
According to the new commercials from the USPS, a new super-smart system is coming for mail delivery that involves big coordination for max efficiency, the USPS promotes. The roll-out of this max efficiency has been confusing so far, according to some carriers of the Beacon post office who deliver the mail.
According to the USPS and the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) via letter, some local post offices - 16 in the Mid Hudson Region, and 200 post offices across the country are slated to stop having carriers deliver mail from them - but instead will drive to local centers to pick up the mail and drive it back to their local routes.
Carriers will not get the mail from the local post office, like Beacon, but will instead get it from a Sorting and Delivery Center (S&DC). According to Steve Hutkins of SaveThePostOffice.com, who also lives in the Hudson Valley, who has been following and reporting on the post office for over 10 years: “Beacon and the other post offices on the list will be giving up their carriers to the Sorting & Delivery Center in the Mid Hudson Newburgh facility.” Residents will still have their mail delivered to their homes by carriers. But the carriers will be driving to and from Newburgh - across the Hudson River on the traffic-prone Newburgh/Beacon Bridge - to do this.
These post offices include Beacon, Fishkill, Wappingers, Newburgh, and several others. They will become “spoke” post offices. To help define the USPS lingo, Steve tells ALBB: “A ‘spoke’ post office is one of the offices giving over its carriers to the S&DC, which is the ‘hub’ of the wheel. This is how USPS refers to them in its presentations, like this one.’”
According to the USPS, the delivery trucks will park at the S&DC (Sorting and Delivery Center), which for Beacon, is in Newburgh.
According to a Beacon postal worker, Beacon employees heard from other postal workers who may have received official notices from their bosses or union at the Post Office that fulfillment and distribution would be done at the processing center in Newburgh. The Newburgh Post Office (different from the processing center) is also slated to stop having mail delivery service from it in September 2023. This has since been confirmed by SaveThePostOffice.com’s publishing of the postal carrier’s union’s letter.
At the time of speaking with ALBB, the postal worker was sitting in their delivery truck, sorting mail for the next block of delivery. Which prompted the question: where will the trucks park? According to a presentation from the USPS in August 2022, parking and commute time was taken into consideration. However, it is not clear if traffic for the commute time for any employee heading over the Newburgh/Beacon bridge was taken into consideration.
The postal worker did not know. Nor did they know how it would work driving in the little truck back and forth across the Newburgh/Beacon Bridge. Also not clear was who would be paying for all that gas, and the new tolls the trucks would accumulate.
With Wappingers, Fishkill, Newburgh, Cornwall, Montgomery, New Paltz, Pine Bush, Walden and other nearby Post Offices closing, the USPS says in a presentation that they have factored in parking, if there is enough parking for those delivery trucks. In this new USPS commercial, it looks like the original post office truck is being directed by the airline-looking traffic controller person.
The traffic on the Newburgh/Beacon Bridge can be thick. One accident, bless the people involved in the crash, can stop traffic for 2 hours at times, backing up all the way to Fishkill’s Route 9.
City of Beacon’s City Administrator Chris White Confirms Building Not Closing
Speculation has been so strong by the public that the Beacon building would close (with the burning hot real estate market going on in Beacon, and the loss of several iconic businesses to new development, this served as a strong foundation for this rumor) WRRV and ALBB first published that the building would close. WRRV was quick to update their initial article, and included this statement: “From the USPS: ‘As we move forward with this initiative, customers will see no changes to their local post office retail operations. No post offices will be closed and PO Box service will not be changed.’"
ALBB emailed Beacon’s City Administrator Chris White days ago to inquire about a possible building closure, and he did not reply. Instead, he updated the community in the final moments of the weekly City Council meeting, as he seems to like breaking his own news on his own time. Special thanks to Councilperson Justice McCray who commented via Instagram that the City of Beacon made an update in the final moments of the meeting.
From the City Administrator’s update, just seconds before the meeting adjourned:
“I have a 2-minute update on the Post Office. Your emails are blowing up. A week to two weeks ago, word spread in Beacon that we were going to loose carriers, and that was a preface to closing down the post office. When we got word of that, we did reach out to Congressman Pat Ryan's office in Kingston. They were doing a call today (Monday) with their Washington Office to ascertain the details on it.
“I did reach out to both the Postmaster who is currently on a different assignment - the Beacon Postmaster is in Hopewell. I did speak to the interim Postmaster. Neither of them believes that closure is at all considered. They thought that was highly unlikely. It had not being discussed.
“What is being discussed is these S&DC centers. The Sorting and Delivery. The carriers that now report for the 13 routes that are done in the 12508 area, would instead report to Newburgh. There were 15 or 16 communities that were going to be moved there. When I talked to the Postmaster, she said that all of the retail functions of the post office are going to remain the same. In fact, there was a similar consolidation of the sorting and delivery a couple of years ago in Eastern Dutchess that Hopewell was part of, and they still remain open.
“We are waiting for a final call back from Congressman Ryan's office. I left messages with the Vice President Of the American Postal Workers Union who I worked with years ago fighting other closures in Sullivan County. It doesn't seem that there is any real threat to close the post office. It would change where the carriers report, but the function day to day, your delivery, your ability to go to the post office, to have a box, to purchase postage, and other items there, would not change."
Mayor Lee Kyriacou clarified: "None of the customer-facing elements are involved in any consideration for change?"
City Administrator Chris responded: "That's correct. And when I said 'Well, do you think this could be a step toward closing?' They said 'No, this is one of our busiest post offices.' If somebody was going to close post offices, this would not be top of the list to close. When we fought this years ago, when I worked in a Congressional office, we were closing very small post offices in towns you would not recognize the names of. Where they had only a few people going in and a few boxes left. And even there we were able to stop it."
From this roll-out, Steve told ALBB that he is waiting to see how more details are addressed, like how a package that cannot be delivered will be handled. Will Beaconites need to drive over the bridge and back to retrieve it?
Editor’s Note: If you are a postal employee in the Mid Hudson region who works in the building for window service and has been impacted by this - where you did see change - please tell ALBB about it. If you were told by a superior that the building may close in the future, please contact us to tell us your source.
The Change From Post Offices To Fulfillment Centers
Suddenly news in the post office is moving quickly. Steve at SaveThePostOffice.com has been following this closely, and researched the large processing centers being built by the USPS by reviewing lists of processing centers that were released to postal unions. He has not been able to come up with a conclusion as to how they will work. However, he did notice that two of the large processing centers were located in North Carolina. “It’s noteworthy that two of the four new leased facilities will be in North Carolina, the Postmaster General’s adopted home state. DeJoy built his fortune as CEO of New Breed Logistics, based in High Point; he has a home in nearby Greensboro; and his chief logistics officer and executive VP is also a former New Breed executive. They have a lot of experience doing logistics projects in North Carolina, but why develop two new leased RPDCs in the same state, just 110 miles apart?”
Steve has also been tracking who has already been fired at the local post offices. In an article published on April 3, 2023, he followed which “spoke” post offices have been impacted.
Steve reported on April 1, 2023: “According to the impact statements the Postal Service is required to provide the APWU when it excesses employees, at least 40 clerk positions are being excessed at about 30 post offices, some of which aren’t scheduled to lose their carriers until September. [Update, 4/2/2023: The Postal Service has dialed back the S&DC plan yet again. The number of spoke offices sending carriers to the Mid Hudson S&DC is now 7 instead of 16, and the total number of excessed positions is now 8 instead of 23.]”
This is just the beginning of what is sure to be several news reports about this.
What will happen to the Elf in the Beacon Post Office who receives the letters to Santa?
What will happen to the Elf in the Beacon Post Office who receives the letters to Santa, and answers each one herself, with candy canes taped onto the envelope? Which magically make it through the sorting machines without getting crushed, or needing a stamp?
Editor’s Note: Any post office worker who wants to contribute to how this will impact them, or how they see this has been handled on the inside, can email ALBB with their anonymous input. We can interview you and not publish your name if you wish.
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