Letter Carriers union opposes ‘Do Not
Mail’ bill proposed in Washington State
OLYMPIA — The National Asso-
ciation of Letter Carriers told key
Washington state legislators Feb. 8 that
passage of proposed bills to create a
“Do Not Mail” registry would be
detrimental to the U.S. Postal Service,
its workforce, and the general public.
NALC President William H.
Young, whose union represents
221,000 letter carriers in the nation,
expressed his “fierce opposition” to
the legislation in letters to Washington
House Commerce and Labor Chair-
man Steve Conway and Senate Con-
sumer Protection and Housing Chair-
man Brian Weinstein as Conway’s
committee held a hearing Feb. 8 on the
legislative proposal.
About 5,500 letter carriers reside in
Kaiser gets okay
to build new
hospital facility
Kaiser Permanente has received ap-
proval from Oregon state regulators to
build a $285 million hospital on a 15-
acre site in the Tanasbourne area of
Washington County.
Kaiser has historically used union
contractors and workers on its con-
struction projects.
The 138-bed, 380,000-square-foot
facility will house surgical suites, an
intensive care unit, an emergency de-
partment, a labor and delivery unit and
a pharmacy. The campus will also in-
clude a specialty care medical office
and outpatient surgery center.
State law charges the Oregon De-
partment of Human Services with re-
viewing proposals for new hospitals
and nursing facilities to ensure health-
care consumers don’t pay for the cost
of unnecessary facilities.
The hospital is projected to be com-
plete in 2011.
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Washington state.
Young said the proposal “could
jeopardize the very future of Amer-
ica’s postal system,” adding that while
it may be well-intentioned, it is being
erroneously promoted as similar to
“Do Not Call” limits on telemarketers.
“Unlike the annoying phone calls
that were routinely timed to coincide
with the dinner hour, postal patrons are
free to choose when and how to deal
with the mail they receive,” Young
said.
Young said the third class mail ear-
marked in the bill constitutes more
than 50 percent of all mail. “Elimina-
tion of a significant portion of adver-
tising mail could be devastating,” he
said.
Young said letter carriers, as other
citizens, have environmental concerns
about the waste of natural resources,
but added that most advertising mail-
ing is printed on recycled paper and
postal patrons can recycle that mail.
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