Bernie Sanders Scores A Win As The Postal Service Backs Off Plan To Close Plants

[Oilwellian]

Who says Bernie can't get things done?

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) won another victory in the battle against privatizing mail delivery as the Postal Service has quietly backed off of a plan to close 82 mail processing plants.

In a statement, Sen. Sanders said:

I am pleased that the Postal Service has decided not to shut down virtually all of the 82 mail-processing plants this year, but much more needs to be done to ensure that Americans throughout the country receive their mail in a timely manner.

The Postal Service should be speeding up the delivery of mail, not slowing it down. We should be working to strengthen the Postal Service, not sending it into a death spiral.

The Postal Service had planned to close eighty-two more mail processing plants as part of a cost-cutting move. The USPS is being forced to cut costs because a Republican imposed mandate that the Service pre-fund 75 years of retirement benefits within a decade. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA) plunged the profitable USPS into debt and forced four out of every five dollars taken in to be spent on funding this mandate.

The Republican passed mandate was designed to drive the Postal Service out of business. The GOP goal has always been to privatize all mail delivery. The mandate is forcing the USPS to make decisions that hurt customers and result in slower mail delivery as part of the larger Republican plan to use government to break a public service that benefits the public good.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/30/bernie-sanders-scores-win-postal-service-backs-plan-close-plants.html

[Autumn]

1. Just so you know, this OP was post 10,000 in the group

[Oilwellian]

3. Very Cool! n/t

[daleanime]

7. Wow....

[libdem4life]

2. And I love how he's going after the Private Prisons with their Quotas.

1. Notice a black person
2. Stop and Frisk
3. Black person gets upset
4. Thrown to the ground, resisting arrest.
5. Can't pay the fine.
6. Off to prison, now with a record, can't get a real job.
7. Rinse and Repeat.

It's really quite simple. And it must stop.

[Fuddnik]

5. Isn't capitalism wonderfu?

Make a fortune off peoples misery.

[libdem4life]

6. I'd just add they make the misery first, then make money from the misery. Cretins.

[daleanime]

8. Amen.....

[sabrina 1]

4. Can anyone doubt who these corporate funded candidates are working for? Shameful and good for Bernie

for making it difficult for them to 'get the job done' for their corporate bosses.

[daleanime]

9. K&R.....

[libdem4life]

10. Here's another take...Dianne Feinstein's husband ready to roll in the money, as usual...

Common knowledge in California.

"It was recently learned that the United States has entered into a contract with one firm to sell 56 buildings that currently house U.S. Post Offices. The government has decided that it no longer needs these buildings (many of which are located on prime land in towns and cities across the country).

The sale of these properties will bring in billions of dollars and, with that, millions of dollars in commissions for the one Company that is in charge of handling the sale and negotiation of the new leases.

What makes this such a matter of concern is that the company that the Government has contracted with to conduct the sales (and the corresponding leases for the new locations of the displaced post offices) is owned by Richard Blum.

Does that name mean anything to you? Maybe it should re-phrased and say that the person who owns the company that is solely in charge of this multi-million-dollar transaction is Richard Blum the husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein."

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/blum.asp#L35SclD3jkGowdkk.99

[Paka]

15. I want to scream.

I vote in California. Why can't we vote her out? I go back far enough that I lived in SF when she was Mayor and she wasn't any good way back then.

[libdem4life]

16. The Harvey Milk Assasination, in my opinion, seared her into the state's psyche.

Edit...that and their godzillions of money

[yuiyoshida]

11. K&R

for Bernie

[project_bluebook]

12. Its a good start but much of the damage has already been done

The fascist mandate that the repugs snuck in and the dems let slip by has slowed 1st class delivery and increased the work load on postal workers. They already closed a bunch of processing centers and local offices eliminating about 100,000 jobs. The mandate needs to be chucked.

[Paka]

13. Great news!

Thank you Bernie. I am a USPS fan. I'm so old I even believe in snail mail birthday cards to children. The US has one of the best postal services in the world and it is evil what Congress did to them.

[Duval]

14. Terrific. nt

[BeanMusical]

17. Kick and R.

[Enthusiast]

18. Delivering the mail is right in the constitution, for God's sake!

Anyone that tries to destroy the USPS should be ashamed to show their face.

It is up to us to make them ashamed!

Why isn't the President speaking up in favor of the USPS? I think we know why.

[L0oniX]

19. K & R