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One-hundred US Postal Service workers rallied in front of Boston’s largest post office to protest job cuts, according to Scott Hoffman, president of the American Postal Workers Union’s Boston chapter. According to Hoffman, a large number of vacancies have gone unfilled, and understaffed post offices are struggling with long lines and backed-up shipping orders. After fierce union opposition, the NLRB ordered the Post Office to end an outsourcing arrangement with Staples. The union is strongly opposed to privatization and argued that the arrangement with Staples replaced union jobs with inferior non-union jobs.