Biden should consider Rebuilding the Post Office as a platform plank...

[blitzen]

if he hasn't done already.

And, while he's at it, take away that Old Post Office building (aka Trump's fucked up D.C. hotel) from Trump Org. and restore it to its historical grandeur.

[MuseRider]

1. Agreed.

We really do need the dependability of the USPS. Besides, it is ours not some corporate boards.

[The Wizard]

2. In this age of Internet shopping

a viable, efficient USPS is a necessity. First thing is to revoke the law requiring a 75 year prepaid postal pension funds.

[blitzen]

3. Yes, revoke that Repuke fascist scam of a law. n/t

[brush]

4. Good idea.

[dameatball]

5. I agree and here is why. I live in a decidedly red, relatively poor area. In all our county races,

perhaps 20% of the races even have a Democrat running. But one thing I truly believe is that people here love their post office and especially their rural carriers. These carriers are a known part of our community. Making the USPS a plank and not just some random nod in a speech is imperative and costs virtually nothing. Biden needs to hammer Trump on this, as do all Democratic candidates down the line..

[Midnight Writer]

6. I was really disappointed Obama didn't fix the punishing USPS health care payments.

Passed under W Bush, USPS has been required to pre-pay all potential health insurance premiums to cover the next 75 years.

[wiggs]

7. Not sure it's that broken. He should run on the platform of getting rid of the gop

rule that required USPS to fund the pension 25 years (or 75 I dont remember) into the future. That was a poison pill rule that USPS has survived up until now.

[LakeArenal]

8. Exactly.

[procon]

9. Fix the USPS and restore the Postal Banking System.

Yeah, the PO had a banking in the past — from 1911 to 1967, just like most other industrial countries like Japan, Great Britain, Germany, China and South Korea, they all provide banking services through their postal offices.


Several of our Congress critters, Sanders, Warren, Gillibrand, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are working on legislation to bring back limited banking services to the USPS.

The Postal Service already cashes Treasury checks and issues money orders. Adding other banking services would help poor folks, immigrants, the elderly and low wage workers get away from the payday lenders that rip them off.