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walkingman

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7. Starting in 2006, the GOP Congress under the Bush administration and continuing to escalate

Tue Jul 7, 2026, 07:32 PM

23 hrs ago

under both Trump administrations, the GOP is destroying our Postal System. The results are easy to see.

The most significant reason is that they hate any program that is not private....and in order to push this agenda the GOP Congress passed laws to force the Postal Service to pre-fund their retirement responsibilities - unlike any agency or business.

The second reason is that about 91% of USPS employees (over 500,000 workers) belong to a bargaining unit, making the Postal Service the largest unionized employer in the nation.

These GOP hardliners do not care about the people they are elected to serve.

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