THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE..

[homegirl]

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Source: U.S. Senate record

...The Senate just passed House legislation that will completely overhaul the United States Postal Service and put it on a secure footing for years to come.

After Trump-appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy released plans representing the largest consumer rollback of USPS services in the agency’s history, Congress responded with a vigorous pushback that will protect the Postal Service for generations.

DeJoy will no longer be able to carry out his internal sabotage campaign and will be prohibited from cutting service days. Our legislation will mandate delivery 6 days a week. And no longer will the Post Office have to pre-fund retirement benefits for its employees, a unique Bush-era requirement only applied to that agency, that opponents (including DeJoy) have used to falsely claim the Post Office was losing money and on the verge of bankruptcy.

There is just one step remaining — President Biden signing this legislation into law.

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[PoliticAverse]

1. DeJoy was a major proponent of this bill. n/t

[Hoyt]

3. It's amazing how many people totally ignore such facts.

[ymetca]

4. So he can siphon off the money

to his pals and cronies, and companies he's invested in.

He's part of the privatize-all-government-services-for-profit sector of the GOP. They'd privatize breathable air at this point. Everything is just an "opportunity" in their so-called "free market" scheme, which is basically just sticking their snouts into the public trough and sucking out the marrow of democracy.

[brush]

7. Doesn't this plan as described in the OP, roll back...

much of DeJoy's plans to cut services? And it also appears to get rid of the onerous requirement, pushed through by republicans, that the Post Office fund retirement for employees decades into the future?

[PoliticAverse]

13. DeJoy wanted to get rid of the health care prepayment requirement as doing so

results in a major savings to the USPS. DeJoy is a businessman not a political ideologue and likely knows the necessity to negotiate and compromise to get things done. He clearly understands that Democrats control Congress and his only chance to get any significant legislation concerning the USPS means he had to give up the idea he could get his full wish list. This is bi-partisan legislation and thus represents some compromise on both sides.

[brush]

17. That makes sense. What about DeJoy's tenure?

Dems still want to get rid of him.

[Metaphorical]

8. Writing on the wall

DeJoy knows full well that his campaign to destroy the post office has failed, and that only his GOP supporters in the Senate are keeping him from being canned and jailed. It does him no good to try to continue sabotaging the post office at this point, given that. What I think this signals is that Biden doesn't want to have to deal with DeJoy and will continue looking for ways to remove him, but he's not going to put a lot of political capital into the effort.

[Akoto]

2. This has been ages past due. Glad to see it finally happen. nt

[Rebl2]

9. About 15 years past due

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Yes and do you know the cost of sending a 4 ounce package at a retail window coast to coast?

$5.00. Five bucks for four ounces. And a PO Box that was $20 in 2004 is now $100.

[Rebl2]

12. My box

is due this month and is $91 for six months! It’s lousy, but we live on an old rural route in a suburb. The box is across the street on a very busy road. No way were we putting our box on the road and have mail stolen from it-and it has happened to others around us.

[yardwork]

6. Elections have consequences.

[Evolve Dammit]

10. "pre-fund retirement". That was huge. Anyone know who introduced that?

[bsiebs]

14. Rep Tom Davis (R-VA)... but it had Democrats supporting it as well (including Henry Waxman!)

The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) is a United States federal statute enacted by the 109th United States Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 20, 2006.
The bill was introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Tom Davis, a Republican from Virginia, and cosponsored by Republican John M. McHugh of New York and Democrats Henry Waxman of California and Danny K. Davis of Illinois. As the chair of the Senate Oversight committee, Senator Susan Collins of Maine shepherded the bill's passage through the Senate. The bill was approved during the lame duck session of the 109th Congress, and approved without objection via voice vote.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Accountability_and_Enhancement_Act

[csziggy]

16. Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] and in the House, John McHugh

https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/380

Rep. John McHugh - Sponsor. Representative for New York's 23rd congressional district. Republican.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/108/hr735

[SergeStorms]

11. Wonderful.

One of the things our government does well - if politicians leave it alone - will now have politicians leaving it alone.

[USALiberal]

15. Link????

[Yonnie3]

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