Going Postal To Save The United States Post Office

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Going-Postal-To-Save-The-U-by-Dennis-Trainor-Jr-Accountability_Accountability_Accountability_Citizens-United-131128-156.html

Going Postal To Save The United States Post Office
OpEdNews Op Eds 11/28/2013 at 12:41:20
By Dennis Trainor, Jr.

If you had a great job that paid really well, but your health insurance benefits from that job had to be paid in full for 75 years into the future, it wouldn't matter how much you got paid because you would always be broke and in debt.

~snip~

The USPS is NOT in trouble. Despite the doom and gloom trumpeted by the corporate media, the post office actually posted $700 million in operation profits in the last four years.

The USPS is certainly in a crisis, but it doesn't have anything to do with the post office's facilities, online commerce or employee salaries. It should come as a surprise to nobody that the USPS's dire financial situation is a direct result of the callousness and shortsightedness of Congress. Luckily, there's a way we can all help the post office generate more revenue while simultaneously bleeding the banks dry one envelope at a time. But I'll get to that in a minute.

The reason the U.S. Postal Service is running at constant losses and having to shutter offices around the country is a direct result of the Postal Reform and Accountability Act (PRAA) of 2006. The bill was passed by the same lame duck Congress that got their asses handed to them in the 2006 mid-term elections, amidst a wave of populist anti-war anger that mobilized millions of voters to throw the war hawks out of Congress.



unhappycamper comment: Don't throw away those pre-paid return envelopes or Christmas catalogs. I've been cutting up catalogs and stuffing them into the return envelopes for a long time now. My best effort to date? $2.41 postage required at the other end.

[mbperrin]

1. Even FedEx and other carriers use the USPS to deliver

to non-main cities.

Yet stupid Congress is doing all it can to bust the PO, an agency written into the Constitution by the framers, if anyone wonders how important it is.

You don't even need an address to get mail at General Delivery, never mind the checks on people on the route every day and many more services that are great and no additional charge.

[Triana]

2. USPS carriers pick up food for the poor and food banks...

...I think the big reason CONgress wants USPS privatized is the postal unions - they HATE unions.

[Doctor_J]

3. another issue on which our so-called leaders have remained awol

The issa-Bush law should have been revoked in 2009

[upi402]

4. They want to kill it all

Make no mistake. They want to own this arena and bust yet another union.