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A Petition That Just Might Save the Post Office
Last edited Sat May 11, 2013, 11:09 AM - Edit history (1)
A Petition That Just Might Save the Post Office
John Nichols
Congressman Peter DeFazio has always been a stalwart defender of the United States Postal Service. As a veteran lawmaker and one of its most determined advocates for public services in the House, he knows that the postal service is an essential asset. But he also knows that the USPS "is in a financial death spiral, caused largely by Congressional and bureaucratic ineptitude and inaction"
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The congressman has battled the bureaucrats with some success. Along with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan, DeFazio was in the forefront of the successful fight to block the Postmaster General's wrongheaded proposal to end Saturday mail delivery. He even found some rural Republican allies for that skirmish.
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Obama has sent some good signals; indeed, his budget borrows ideas advanced by Sanders and DeFazio for making the USPS more competitive...the congressman is right to want the president to play a more pivotal role in saving post offices and sorting centers, rural routes and urban facilities, from a death by slow cuts...So DeFazio has taken the rare step -- as a congressman -- of posting a petition on the Obama administration's "We the People" website.
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To get a formal response from the White House, the petition must gather 100,000 signatures by May 23.
Almost 20,000 people have already signed. But now it's crunch time..."If you support the postal service and want Congress and the White House to consider legislation that would fix the serious financial challenges it faces," says DeFazio, "please sign the petition and tell your friends to as well."
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174269/petition-just-might-save-post-office#
John Nichols
Congressman Peter DeFazio has always been a stalwart defender of the United States Postal Service. As a veteran lawmaker and one of its most determined advocates for public services in the House, he knows that the postal service is an essential asset. But he also knows that the USPS "is in a financial death spiral, caused largely by Congressional and bureaucratic ineptitude and inaction"
<...>
The congressman has battled the bureaucrats with some success. Along with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan, DeFazio was in the forefront of the successful fight to block the Postmaster General's wrongheaded proposal to end Saturday mail delivery. He even found some rural Republican allies for that skirmish.
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Obama has sent some good signals; indeed, his budget borrows ideas advanced by Sanders and DeFazio for making the USPS more competitive...the congressman is right to want the president to play a more pivotal role in saving post offices and sorting centers, rural routes and urban facilities, from a death by slow cuts...So DeFazio has taken the rare step -- as a congressman -- of posting a petition on the Obama administration's "We the People" website.
<...>
To get a formal response from the White House, the petition must gather 100,000 signatures by May 23.
Almost 20,000 people have already signed. But now it's crunch time..."If you support the postal service and want Congress and the White House to consider legislation that would fix the serious financial challenges it faces," says DeFazio, "please sign the petition and tell your friends to as well."
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174269/petition-just-might-save-post-office#
Save the Postal Service-Save American Jobs
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/save-postal-service-save-american-jobs/drCmyCHZ
E.J. Dionne and Robert Borosage agree: push the President's best initiatives.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022807040
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