'Save The Postal Service' Rallies Set For Saturday In Rockland

NYACK, NY — Protests in New City, Nyack and Haverstraw will be part of a nationwide effort to show support for the U.S. Postal Service.

Rockland United, which is hosting the events in New City and Nyack, suggests that signs thanking postal workers are encouraged.

"Save the Post Office Saturday" Day of Action demonstrations will be at 11 a.m. in New City and Nyack. A 10 a.m. event will start at 10 a.m., according to Save The Post Office.

Protests scheduled around the Hudson Valley include:

• USPS-100 Fisher Ave., White Plains
• Ardsley Post Office, Ardsley
• VFW Plaza, Hastings-on-Hudson
• Nyack Post Office, Nyack
• Yonkers Postal Office, Yonkers
• Yorktown Post Office, Yorktown Heights
• Peekskill Post Office, Peekskill
• U.S. Post Office, Mahopac
• U.S. Post Office, Carmel
• Wingdale Post Office, Wingdale
• Poughkeepsie Post Office, Poughkeepsie
• West Hurley Post Office, West Hurley
• Saugerties Post Office, Saugerties
• Catskill Post Office, Catskill
• Haverstraw Post Office at 10 a.m.
• New City Post Office

Hosts have been encouraged to set a participant limit of 50 or fewer people and are expected to set limits in line with local public health guidelines. All participants are expected to wear a mask and maintain social distancing.

One New York politician has proposed an innovative way to protect the Postal Service.

"Compromising critical mail service for veterans, small business owners, rural communities, and millions of New Yorkers who rely on the mail is unacceptable," U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said in a statement Monday.

Gillibrand thinks the Postal Service should be enhanced. She has introduced the Postal Banking Act to strengthen the Postal Service by establishing a nonprofit bank offering low-cost checking and savings accounts, ATMs, mobile banking, and low-interest loans. The postal bank would also help the millions of Americans who have been economically devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. By funding the Postal Service, the legislation would help maintain the more than 30,000 locations across the country that serve voters in every community.