The stupid, it burns! Postal worker came by at 8 PM, delivering districts

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12. republicans have been trying to get rid of the USPS for years.

I remember catching wind of their early efforts back in the 80s or 90s somewhere in there. But it got really targeted in the first Bush admin I believe. They wanted to get all that parcel business to their clients...FEDEX, UPS, DHL etc.

I guess no one ever thought it would be the Republican Party finishing off the Postal Service when those words were borrowed from the ancient Greek and chiseled in granite over the entrance to the James Farley Post Office in New York City on Labor Day in 1914.
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With trump's appointment of DeJoy, it's still going on. Hope Biden finally gets rid of him.

Our postal system is quite remarkable if you think about it for a minute.

For just 44 cents, you can send a Mother’s Day card from anywhere in the United States to the woman who carried you for nine months providing she lives in the United States and it will arrive in a matter of days. Or as Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart more simply quipped, “Someone comes to your house, takes something you’ve written, and brings it to a person that you want them to give it to anywhere in the world for like 50 cents” before deadpanning, “oh, but it’s going to take a couple of days.”

The power to create post offices is enumerated in our Constitution. Our Postal Service is even fully funded by the sale of stamps, not through tax dollars. That is a combo that should bring tears of joy to the eyes of tea partiers and Republicans alike.

GOP efforts to cripple the Postal Service predate the current tea party “cut government spending” drumbeat echoing throughout Washington during these difficult economic times.

Five years ago, during the Bush administration, the Postal Service handled the largest volume of mail ever seen in its 236-year history. It was in that year, that the Republican controlled
Congressed passed the Postal Accountability Enhancement Act (PAEA).
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The legislation’s title certainly sounds pretty great. But, as is the case with so much in Washington, the words chosen were simply window dressing for a very destructive proposal.

As Truth-Out.org’s Allison Kilkenny recently reported, by passing PAEA, Congressional Republicans mandated that within 10 years the United States Postal Service would have to fully fund retirement health care benefits for the next 75 years. Or to put it more plainly, the Postal Service had a decade to fully fund the retirement health care benefits for future employees that will not even be born until 2057 at the earliest.

Under DeJoy it's still going on. Hope Biden finally gets rid of him.