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Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
Sun May 31, 2015, 08:09 AM May 2015

Bernie Sanders Scores A Win As The Postal Service Backs Off Plan To Close Plants

By: Jason Easley
Saturday, May, 30th, 2015

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) won another victory in the battle against privatizing mail delivery as the Postal Service has quietly backed off of a plan to close 82 mail processing plants.

In a statement, Sen. Sanders said:

I am pleased that the Postal Service has decided not to shut down virtually all of the 82 mail-processing plants this year, but much more needs to be done to ensure that Americans throughout the country receive their mail in a timely manner.

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The Postal Service should be speeding up the delivery of mail, not slowing it down. We should be working to strengthen the Postal Service, not sending it into a death spiral.


The Postal Service had planned to close eighty-two more mail processing plants as part of a cost-cutting move. The USPS is being forced to cut costs because a Republican imposed mandate that the Service pre-fund 75 years of retirement benefits within a decade. The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA) plunged the profitable USPS into debt and forced four out of every five dollars taken in to be spent on funding this mandate.

remainder:http://www.politicususa.com/2015/05/30/bernie-sanders-scores-win-postal-service-backs-plan-close-plants.html

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Bernie Sanders Scores A Win As The Postal Service Backs Off Plan To Close Plants (Original Post) Jefferson23 May 2015 OP
YEAH! Panich52 May 2015 #1
Of all of the presssing problems we have... PosterChild May 2015 #2
I beg your pardon? You think this is exclusive to getting your mail on time? Republicans Jefferson23 May 2015 #3

PosterChild

(1,307 posts)
2. Of all of the presssing problems we have...
Sun May 31, 2015, 01:15 PM
May 2015

... ensuring that Americans are receiving their mail in a timely manner isn't one of them. Has this guy ever heard of the internet?

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
3. I beg your pardon? You think this is exclusive to getting your mail on time? Republicans
Sun May 31, 2015, 01:18 PM
May 2015

have been trying to bankrupt the post office for years so there will be no more of them, period.

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