Reply #23: That's the plan... [View All]

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

... they have even go so far as to appoint FedEx and UPS executives to the Postal Board of Governors in the past. The GOP started the hemmorhaging by hitting the USPS for their "surplus funds" so they could hand out tax breaks, disregarding that the postal services goes with 3-5 year plans and that "surplus" from new rate increases is to be used over the multi- year accounting period to balance things out. And then when the planned expenses later in the accounting period manifest themselves, congress has already taken the money the postal service had planned to use for those expenses.