Rates are too low and expenses are too high while the number of addresses needing servicing are increasing. Any money Washington wants to grant under the guise of “COVID-19 relief” is needed for long term viability. Any argument it is needed for the 2020 election is just true.
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The argument for need in 2020 is obvious, so obvious you keep evading it with other issues. Lots of people voting by mail when there's a pandemic. So prompt high-volume logistics are needed. Now. No one's disputing that deeper systemic repairs should come after, which ensure timely delivery of necessities to people in remote rural areas and aren't dependent on a profit center for some private courier. But fixing things now requires both Congress and a President who isn't subverting the USPS mission with a crony appointment and a publicly stated contempt for full enfranchisement.
How cute. Your FIFY is a frequent childish tactic on this forum.
Usually happens when the poster has no rebuttal.
Yet I had a rebuttal you were incapable of answering. I made the case that asking for emergency funding for a deluge of letters in a pandemic election is not "political noise," as you dismissively put it. You had no substantive reply. The FIFY is a running joke here, so get over it. Lime is a master of the art.
Give me one reason, ONE, that the PMG should pick right now to reduce overtime, sorting machines, second pickups, and other measures that thwart a high-volume mail handling situation we will have this fall. One reason that's not a corrupt crony attack on the November election. Even Mark Meadows is trying to walk some of this foolishness back as people all over the political spectrum are expressing outrage.
We're not debating the states responsibilities here, but rather how the federal postal system can be slowed down to harm implementation of mail voting in some states. Try to keep up.
LOL!
You are obviously failing at chewing gum and typing at the same time.
Cutbacks in the USPS are long overdue. It is setup to be revenue neutral and subsist on revenues generated.
It is at least $80 billion in the red which means our tax money needs to bail it out.
Covid-19 is a convenient argument for the Washington politicians to use more of our money to coverup their unwillingness to make the postal service more meaningful in the 21st century.
Combining the election and Mail-in ballots as a further reason to send a check is pure political garbage.
The USPS can handle the volume, but it can’t guarantee on time delivery to 50 states, each of whom have different mailing dates.
Those of us who mail Christmas Cards learned long ago to mail them weeks before Christmas.
State Election officials and voters need to apply the same thought process.
Why did the GOP kneecap the USPS in 2006?
If you are referring to the Bill that pre-funded Postal retirements it was passed by a voice vote in the House and unanimously in the Senate.
What Red omits is a Repub House (232-201) and a Repub Senate (55-45) and Pres GWB saddled the USPS with pre-funding 75 years of pension costs, basically making it impossible for them to become *ahem* revenue neutral.
According to my limited research, no other federal agency is required to prefund retiree health benefits on a comparable timetable. The mandate is responsible for all of USPS’s financial losses since 2013.
BUT THE POINT REMAINS THIS IS ALL A DISTRACTION
THE REAL ISSUE IS VOTER SUPPRESSION AND SABOTAGING THE ELECTION BY SHUTTING DOWN THE USPS ABILITY TO PERFORM ITS APPOINTED TASKS OF COLLECTING AND DISTRIBUTING MAIL ON A TIMELY BASIS.
RED IS HAPPY SELLING OUT THIS COUNTRY FOR THE PRICE OF A FUCKING STAMP.
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