Last week, I testified before the House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, Postal Service and the District of Columbia. 
The chairman of the subcommittee, Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL), called the hearing to conduct general oversight of the Postal 
Service. I used the hearing to alert Congress to the growing danger of delivery service outsourcing and to launch our 
campaign for a legislative ban on delivery outsourcing. A copy of my testimony to the Committee can be found at www.NALC.org . 
 
As a first step in our campaign, I write to ask you to contact your member of Congress to ask them to co-sponsor House 
Resolution 282 that calls on the USPS to "discontinue the practice of contracting out mail delivery services." This 
non-binding "Sense of the House" Resolution was introduced March 28 by Rep. Albio Sires (D-NJ). Its passage would build momentum 
for a binding prohibition now under consideration by Rep. Davis' subcommittee. Please use the following link to contact your 
representative in Washington. You also may call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask for your representative's 
Office. 
 
Some 50 members of Congress, whose names are listed below, have already agreed to co-sponsor H.R. 282. If your member is listed, 
please call or send them a thank you note on behalf of the NALC. 
 
I am pleased to report that at the hearing there was general support for the NALC's call for a legislative prohibition on 
contracting out mail delivery. Not only did many subcommittee members express their dismay with the Postal Service's 
self-destructive embrace of outsourcing mail delivery in urban and suburban areas, all three leaders of the Postal Service's 
management associations did so as well. We were also backed by the Mail Handlers Union and the NRLCA. 
 
We will aggressively pursue a legislative solution to the cancer of delivery outsourcing. With your help and commitment, I am 
convinced that we will prevail. Thank you for your activism on behalf of all letter carriers. 
 
In Solidarity, 
 
William H. Young 
President 
 
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Co-Sponsor of 282 (as of 4-23-07) 
 
Rep. Mike Ross (AR-04) 
Rep. Ed Pastor (AZ-04) 
Rep. Mike Thompson (CA-01) 
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06) 
Rep. Barbara Lee (CA-09) 
Rep. Ellen Tausher (CA-10) 
Rep. Tom Lantos (CA-12) 
Rep. Pete Stark (CA-13) 
Rep. Anna Eshoo (CA-14) 
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA-16) 
Rep. Sam Farr (CA-17) 
Rep. Dennis Cardoza (CA-18) 
Rep. Lois Capps (CA-23) 
Rep. Howard Berman (CA-28) 
Rep. Adam Schiff (CA-29) 
Rep. Xavier Becerra (CA-31) 
Rep. Diane Watson (CA-33) 
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) 
Rep. Linda Sanchez (CA-39) 
Rep. Joe Baca (CA-43) 
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (CA-47) 
Rep. Bob Filner (CA-51) 
Rep. Susan Davis (CA-53) 
Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) 
Rep. John Salazar (CO-03) 
Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) 
Rep. Corrine Brown (FL-03) 
Rep. Mazie Hirono (HI-02) 
Rep. Leonard Boswell (IA-03) 
Rep. John Dingell (MI-15) 
Rep. James Oberstar (MN-08) 
Rep. Russ Carnahan (MO-03) 
Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver (MO-05) 
Rep. Bennie Thompson (MS-02) 
Rep. Frank LoBiondo (NJ-02) 
Rep. Frank Pallone (NJ-06) 
Rep. Bill Pascrell (NJ-08) 
Rep. Steven Rothman (NJ-09) 
Rep. Albio Sires (NJ-13)-Original Sponsor 
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22) 
Rep. Shelley Berkley (NV-01) 
Rep. Charles Wilson (OH-06) 
Rep. Tim Ryan (OH-17) 
Rep. David Wu (OR-01) 
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) 
Rep. Peter Defazio (OR-04) 
Rep. Michael Doyle (PA-14) 
Rep. Steve Cohen (TN-09) 
Rep. Brian Baird (WA-03) 
Rep. Jim McDermott (WA-07) 
 
Please do not call Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald CA-37, as we were saddened to hear of her passing away from cancer this 
weekend. 
 
You can take action on this alert either via email (please see directions below) or via the web at: 
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/contracting_clone/inbgk584pt8ibbj? 
 
Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this. 
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/contracting_clone/forward/inbgk584pt8ibbj? 
 
We encourage you to take action by May 7, 2007 
 
Help draft Congress into the fight against Contracting Out 
 
INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND VIA THE WEB: 
If you have access to a web browser, you can take action on this 
alert by going to the following URL: 
 
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/contracting_clone/inbgk584pt8ibbj? 
 
INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND VIA EMAIL: 
Just choose the "reply to sender" option on your email program. 
 
 
Send a letter to the following decision maker(s): 
Your Congressperson 

Below is the sample letter:

Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here], 
 
I am a Letter Carrier who lives and works in your district. I have learned from my union, the National Association of Letter 
Carriers, that the United States Postal Service has initiated a new program called Contract Delivery Service that out-sources 
the delivery of mail to new delivery points, including those in urban and suburban areas that should be served by City and Rural 
Letter Carriers. I write to urge you to co-sponsor Rep. Albio Sires' Sense of the House Resolution (H.R. 282) that calls on 
the Postal Service to "discontinue the practice of contracting out mail delivery services." 
 
Using high-turnover, low-wage and part-time contractors instead of dedicated career employees to deliver mail will harm service 
and damage the public's confidence in the Postal Service. Although this practice is limited now, the Postal Service adds 
up to 1.7 million new delivery points each year as new residential and commercial developments are built. If this 
penny-wise but pound-foolish practice goes forward unimpeded, there could be tens of thousands of contractors out there in 10 
or 15 years. 
 
As a business strategy, it makes no sense for the Postal Service to out-source its core functions and the USPS should not add to 
the millions of American workers who toil without health insurance and pension protection. Nor should the USPS be allowed 
to use contracting out to evade the law's existing policies on veterans' preference in hiring and collective bargaining rights 
for workers who deliver the mail. Please co-sponsor H.R. 282 and tell the Postal Service to put a stop to contracting out 
delivery work. 
 
Sincerely,

[Your Name]

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