Trump causes damage to the Post Office.

It’s what the GOP does. Destroys everything great about America.

By the way- Mail is still a bargain at .82 cents. Now pay your employees retirement contribution.

Tossed out the half finished electrification plans.

That is the source of their financial problems. No other agency has that requirement. It seems likely that is part of a Republican plan to ruin it and replace it with a for profit model for delivery of mail and packages.

The corporate world would like to have all the data the USPS has too.

The pre funding you are referring to was for retirement health care benefits.

When it was passed in 2006 it had overwhelming support. Passed by voice vote on the House and unanimous consent on the Senate.

Glad they did it.

Inflation and the cost of gas must be tough for the USPS.

This is a CHOICE - it has been DEFUNDED.

Is essentially defunding it.

The Postal Reorganization Act was passed in 1970 in the House 360-24 & also in the Senate 57-7 and signed by President Nixon.

Besides making the USPS an independent agency, it also did allow for postal employees to be represented by unions and engage in collective bargaining.

I didnt say defunded. But if you want to get into it.. I wasnt paying attention to politics or government at the time, but my understanding is that in 1970 they passed the postal reorganization act, defunding the tax dollars that went to usps as of 1981

It should be taxpayer funded. Postal service is in the constitution. It is not taxpayer funded. I find that rediculous.

At the very least, postal employee pensions should be covered by the government just like with any other federal employee.

Sending a letter coast to coast for the cost of a single stamp is STILL a bargain, considerably lower than other countries. Raise it to $1. Contribute to the pension fund. Adequately staff post offices.

The US has the cheapest postage among 31 countries.

https://www.google.com/search?q=first+class+postage+by+country&oq=first+class+postage+by+country&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMg0IAxAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0IBBAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0IBRAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMg0IBhAAGIYDGIAEGIoFMgoIBxAAGIAEGKIEMgoICBAAGIAEGKIEMgoICRAAGIAEGKIEMgoIChAAGIAEGKIE0gEJMTk5NzJqMGo0qAIOsAIB8QVAsHL5kGogLA&client=ms-android-google&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#lfId=ChxjMe

Go to a dollar. Use the money to upgrade services and facilities to be ahead of the curve. Open postal banking services. And make pensions a federal tax dollars funding deal like with any other federal employee.

In Denmark they got rid of the mail delivery service. I could see the USA having once a week delivery to each address. The Internet has replaced the mail delivery service for most correspondence. IMHO.

Which is another reason why we dropped tv in favour of phone based internet.
Turned out to be a much better option than tv ever was.

What are they supposed to do the rest of the time? Door Dash?

Who cares if junk shit hits the box on Sat or Monday??

Seeing as its a constitutional requirement, lets fund it properly and take away the wierd extra mandates meant to kill it.

Or do the postal bank thing, which id guess would pay for everything else without too much trouble.

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The Postal Reorganization Act was passed in 1970 in the House 360-24 & in the Senate 57-7

to pre-fund all employees retirements had the USPS losing millions each year.

In 2022, Congress under Democrats killed the retiree healthcare "pre-funding" requirement and provided some money to close a funding gap over 10 years that helped to financially burden the USPS -

H.R.3076 - Postal Service Reform Act of 2022

But it's very good news.

Roe v Wade was overturned and Biden managed to get his huge climate-focussed bill passed... And then all the stuff with respect to J6 and the hearings.

So lots of things in play that year (and Democrats were able to stave off losing many members and/or a chamber, as typically happens during mid-years).

I mail so few letters, a book of 20 lasts the year (mostly charitable contributions, which I could do online, but like the physicality of sending in envelopes)

Using the internet to pay bills is structuring payments to deprive USPS of income from stamps.

Slowing down to obey the speed limit is structuring your driving to avoid speeding tickets.

Seemed to be very popular at the time. The vote was so lopsided, they didn't even have to record individual votes.

It is a shame that they don't see the need to fix this one.

But, then again, the purpose is to cut off communications. That is why they are tanking the Postal Service.

It is also why they keep on trying to 'regulate' the internet. Not to 'protect the children'. but to destroy any community formation and ability to organize.

It was repealed in 2022 but the damage was done.

H.R.3076 - Postal Service Reform Act of 2022

Like I said, they need to 'fix' it, not just 'abandon' it.

but we obviously don't have that at the moment.

During the Obama administration, the GOP blocked Obama appointees to the Postal Board, so for a number of years, it had no quorum and was basically neutered, and non-functional.

It was a Democratic Congress and administration that at least took the first steps to try to fix it under Biden.

the Post Office just lost 9 billion last year, even without the requirement.

going to be able to break even unless some drastic changes are made. We will just have to accept that they will have to be subsidized like most other government agencies, and that it is worth it to do so.