Ralph Nader Dedicates Book to Postal Workers
July 1, 2015
(This article first appeared in the July-August 2015 issue of The American Postal Worker magazine.)
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader’s most recent book honors postal workers.
Return to Sender: Unanswered Letters to the President, 2001-2015, which champions the importance of letter writing, is dedicated to “the people who make the Postal Service work and to the citizens who have defended its critical role.”
The book is a collection of letters Nader has mailed to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama over the past 15 years. The letters add up to a fascinating and razor-sharp critique of more than a decade of American policy “decision and indecision.”
Each Labor Day, for example, Nader asks the president how a worker can be expected to live on the federal minimum wage and how the president plans to address obstructions to union organizing, such as the Taft-Hartley Act and so-called Right-to-Work legislation.
In one letter, Nader cites the important role of the Postal Service in citizens’ access to political participation: “The historic post office was one of the earliest examples of a very successful effort that bound the nation together.”