FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE	
 Contact: Media Relations	202-268-2155
December 11, 2003
	www.usps.com

FOX getting earful about Mad TV skit -
two unions urge that it be pulled
 
If the e-mails and phone calls being received by Public Affairs 
and Communications VP Azeez Jaffer are any indication, FOX-TV is 
getting an earful. Jaffer says he's received over 4,000 messages 
of support - and they're still coming in - from active and 
retired USPS employees. They're saying we're united in opposing 
FOX-TV's planned Saturday night broadcast of a Mad TV skit that 
demeans Postal Service employees.  

APWU President Bill Burrus has written to both the chairman and 
the president of FOX, expressing his dismay and outrage, urging 
FOX to take the promotional ad - and the skit - off the air. In a 
just-issued news release, NALC President Bill Young has demanded 
that FOX immediately withdraw this segment from Saturday night's 
program, saying, "It's totally unwarranted, even as a comedy 
skit."

Both union heads underline the contributions of USPS employees in 
serving our nation, during this year's holiday period and during 
the difficult days in the fall of 2001. 

Jaffer thanked employees, "for letting FOX know how you feel. I 
am truly impressed by the pride you take in your daily work for 
the people of America. It's too bad FOX and Mad TV don't get it."

"In fact," explained Jaffer, "a FOX spokesman defended Mad TV as 
'an equal opportunity offender.'"

"We can take a joke - and there are lot of them out there," said 
Jaffer, "but this skit, unfairly linking postal workers to guns 
and violence, is downright insulting."

Many employees have told us that FOX is no longer accepting 
e-mails at the addresses we provided yesterday. So, here are a 
few more you might want to consider:

You can e-mail FOX at askfox@foxinc.com. You can e-mail Mad TV by 
clicking on the phone dial at www.madtv.com/html/mes/messa.html. 
You also can write Mr. Sandy Grushow,Chairman, FOX Entertainment 
Group, Building 100 Room 5110, 10201 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 
90064-2606.

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