(110818) -- NEW YORK, Aug. 18, 2011 (Xinhua) -- Jr. Chuck Zlatkin of the American Postal Workers Union delivers a speech outside the Grand Station post office as he attends a protest to urge the United States Postal Service (USPS) to keep the local postal facility open in Astoria, Queens, the United States, Aug. 18, 2011. The USPS announced in July that it was studying the possibility of closing Grand Station and some 3700 other post offices nationwide. Signatures of more than 1,000 Queens residents who want to keep the post office open for business have been collected and plan to be delivered to the Postal Service later this week. (Xinhua/Deng Jian)(wjd)