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Postal workers protest new Staples initiative

Postal workers in 27 states took to the streets Thursday, protesting a move they say may cost them their jobs. More than 50 postal workers demonstrated in front of the Staples store at 3535 Peachtree Rd. NE Thursday, angry at a deal between the office supply retailer and the Post Office to put mail windows in up to 15-hundred Staples stores nationwide.

“These people and their families basically end up without a job,” said William Flannigan, Atlanta president of the Postal Workers Union.

The use of unsecure facilities and minimum-wage personnel would also put the mail at risk, he said, because non-postal workers are not trained to spot packages that could contain poisons or explosives.

Postal worker Kenyon Beasly is worried for his family.

“My job would be under threat because it would be traded for a minimum wage job,” he said. “It would devastate us.”

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