Trump pledges support for Postal Service after threatening its funding
Source: The Hill
President Trump on Friday said he would “never let our Post Office fail,” just hours after threatening to block emergency assistance for the U.S. Postal Service if the agency did not raise its prices.
“I will never let our Post Office fail. It has been mismanaged for years, especially since the advent of the internet and modern-day technology,” Trump tweeted. “The people that work there are great, and we’re going to keep them happy, healthy, and well!” The Washington Post reported Thursday that the Trump administration was considering leveraging a $10 billion loan to the Postal Service authorized in a coronavirus relief package in order to secure reforms.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who spoke alongside Trump in the Oval Office on Friday, said that the department would “put certain criteria for a postal reform program as part of the loan.” Mnuchin said he looked forward to seeing the board recruit a new postmaster general and executing on postal reform. Trump said he would “go a step further,” demanding the agency raise its prices in order to receive the emergency funding.
Trump earlier had called the Postal Service a “joke” and proposed that the agency should quadruple its current prices in order to make money. Trump said the agency was catering to companies like Amazon and losing money, and demanded that it raise its fees. “If they don’t raise the price of the service they give, which is a tremendous service, and they do a great job and the postal workers are fantastic — but this thing's losing billions of dollars,” Trump previously said.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/494556-trump-pledges-support-for-postal-service-after-threatening-its
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It's going to be a long while before we can get out and block walk, and these days fewer and fewer people answer their phones when you phone bank.
When I can't reach someone by phone in my precinct lists, I write a postcard introducing myself and reminding them to vote, and ask for help in working my precinct.
I have Get Out The Vote postcards for October.
Many of our candidates had postcard parties in 2018 and they were very helpful for candidate recognition.
I also write postcards for https://postcardstovoters.org/
They send me info on upcoming campaigns that have requested their help. If I can send the cards, I reply back and then I receive a list of addresses to use.
The campaigns can be from just about anywhere. They have asked me to write for candidates in Alabama (Senator Doug Jones), Louisiana, Kentucky (Governor Beshear), North Carolina, Georgia and most recently Wisconsin on behalf of the new State Supreme Court Justice.
Definitely we need to have lots of postcard stamps
and will serve two important purposes at the same time. 
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