Beware 50.000 Postal Workers go to Disney August 8th-15th

[teroot]

My sister will be attending a huge convention in Anaheim at the convention center and will be spending tons of time with families at the parks the week of August 8th-15th. WoW that's allot of postal workers. Who's gonna deliver the mail ?

 

[kailuagirl]

Wow, thats alot of postal workers. Thanks for the heads up!!

 

[carebee21]

That's what we're going for in August! My dad is going to be down there, so we're going to go hangout with my mom and keep her company. Any excuse to go to Disney

I think your numbers are off. They do these conventions yearly
and last years convention had 7500 representatives and the year before the numbers were similar so I'd guess it's more in line with those numbers.

Also, this is a convention for NALC, which is the union for the post office. The majority of the people coming for this convention work specifically with the union and are not letter carriers (I'd say probably around 75%) and therefore not that many letter carriers are going to be missing work so mail wont' be impacted

I do think it's important to point out, that they try to stay in union approved hotels, using hotels that offer unions and are in good standing or something like that. I know the hotels on the list that are highly recommended include: Hilton, Sheraton Park, Paradise Pier and The Disney Hotel. Once those are booked, the other hotels they have group rates/blocks for are: Anabella, Anaheim Desert Palms, Best Western Pavillions and Stovalls, Clarion, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, HoJo Plaza, Hyatt Regency Orange County, Portofino, and Red Lion. So if you're thinking of staying at these hotels during this time, try to book early and be prepared for very crowded hotels!

And I also want to point out that these classes/meetings keep the attendees pretty busy during the day so I'd expect them to filter into the parks in the late afternoon/ evenings and for it to get crowded then.

 

[cepmom]

yikes! I just booked Howard Johnson for the 9th - 14th. I was debating between that week and the following week....maybe I should switch it to the following week

 

[Pluto 2]

yes disney is bringing in extra security guards and a lot of off duty police officers. expect extra time getting through security.

 

[Rosanne]

yes disney is bringing in extra security guards and a lot of off duty police officers. expect extra time getting through security.

Oh, goodness, LOL. Took me a minute to figure that one out.

 

[Rosanne]

I just booked our flights for Aug 13-18 a few days ago. Sounds like the 13th,14th and 15th might be extra busy. At least I won't have to have my mail held during vacation .

 

[Rosanne]

That's what we're going for in August! My dad is going to be down there, so we're going to go hangout with my mom and keep her company. Any excuse to go to Disney

I think your numbers are off. They do these conventions yearly
and last years convention had 7500 representatives and the year before the numbers were similar so I'd guess it's more in line with those numbers.

Also, this is a convention for NALC, which is the union for the post office. The majority of the people coming for this convention work specifically with the union and are not letter carriers (I'd say probably around 75%) and therefore not that many letter carriers are going to be missing work so mail wont' be impacted

I do think it's important to point out, that they try to stay in union approved hotels, using hotels that offer unions and are in good standing or something like that. I know the hotels on the list that are highly recommended include: Hilton, Sheraton Park, Paradise Pier and The Disney Hotel. Once those are booked, the other hotels they have group rates/blocks for are: Anabella, Anaheim Desert Palms, Best Western Pavillions and Stovalls, Clarion, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, HoJo Plaza, Hyatt Regency Orange County, Portofino, and Red Lion. So if you're thinking of staying at these hotels during this time, try to book early and be prepared for very crowded hotels!

And I also want to point out that these classes/meetings keep the attendees pretty busy during the day so I'd expect them to filter into the parks in the late afternoon/ evenings and for it to get crowded then.

Thanks for all the insight. It's pretty interesting. I'm glad I already booked at Hojo. Should be a pretty cool crowd.

 

[DisneySuiteFreak]

Glad I'm not going that week!

 

[briangl]

I would expect a larger impact from the Southern California Annual passes reaching the end of their blackout periods during the last week of August.