Some postal workers say they're on the picket lines for you.

For two days employees at the postal facility on Scottsville Road have picketed saying branch consolidation would affect the local economy and how you get your mail.

United States Postal Service officials say mail volume is down, so to increase efficiency they're consolidating processing plants.

One of those currently being studied is the facility on Scottsville Road.

About 107 workers could be affected and on Tuesday they took to the picket lines in protest.

"People are concerned," said Teresa Steiner, a postal service worker. "They don't want their mail to move. They want the jobs to stay in Bowling Green."

Teresa Steiner is on a mission.

"We're all kind of hoping enough people speak out."

She's a postal service worker of some fourteen years and now she's on the picket line.

"It's not anything we ever counted on and it's so many of us," she said.

A possible consolidation of the mail processing center on Scottsville Road to Nashville, Tennessee could have Steiner and her co-workers moving elsewhere.

"It would be a big deal for my family," she said.

"We're the most productive for a plant our size in this country," said Denny Palmer, president of the APWU Local 453.

Palmer says moving processing to Nashville would keep you from getting your mail for several days.

"Personally, I believe this will delay medication to seniors, social security checks, disability checks."

But not so says the U.S. Postal Service.

Officials say customers wouldn't be affected.

"I think they're trying to throw fear in there and if a consolidation were to happen, customers would see no change to their mail service," said David Walton, spokesperson for the Kentuckiana district of the USPS.

Walton says employees at the branch would keep their jobs in the event of a move, but where remains uncertain.

It's that uncertainty keeping folks like Teresa Steiner on the picket lines in the town she wants to stay in.

"When you're working the mail in your own town, you want to work hard and ake sure people are getting what they deserve," she said.

The union workers have set up www,mymailmatters.com,with information on how to write local lawmakers about the issue.

David Walton says picketing isn't doing any good, and says workers and the public can voice their concerns by letter to USPS Consumer Affairs.

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Consumer Affairs Manager
P.O. Box 31631
Louisville, KY 40231