Obama admin silent as USPS lays off 35,000 workers...with more layoffs to come

[girl gone mad]

110. Obama has the power to stop postal closures

http://bdtonline.com/letters/x741509739/Obama-has-the-power-to-stop-postal-closures

Why isn’t President Obama using his power of executive order to stop Post Master General Patrick Donahoe from destroying the infrastructure of the largest and most efficient postal service in the world? If the number of mail processing centers is cut in half and rural post offices are closed, the ability for rapid delivery and overnight service to all communities will be impossible and executive order 13527 is useless.

The president could, with the stroke of his pen put a stop to these closings, which the Postal Regulatory Commission said was based on flawed information. Then Congress could use its investigative and oversight powers to get to the facts of why flawed information is being used to dismantle our vital and necessary postal service. These closings will hurt the economy of not only rural communities, but, also the nation.

The delivery of mail and medicine to out of the way areas will stop and those citizens will have to find a way to the nearest post office, because a lot of the elderly don’t or can’t drive. The loss of jobs will be in the thousands at a time when our country has a shortage of jobs, and based on executive order 13527 the life of our citizens will be in jeopardy.

If these aren’t good enough reasons for our elected officials to use their constitutionally given powers to protect the health, economy, and jobs of the American people and their communities, what is? How can Congress investigate private enterprises for wrongdoings and at the same time allow the appointed official of a government agency to destroy the infrastructure of a constitutionally provided service using faulty numbers? Don’t forget, the postal service is a service and not a business. It was intended to provide cheap and rapid delivery to all citizens even at a loss. Unlike phones and emails, which can be tapped and hacked into, letter mail has to be physically opened to read. If our elected officials in Washington would have us believe that they with their constitutionally given powers (oversight hearings, investigative hearings, executive order, etc…) can’t stop one appointed government official from destroying our postal service, I thank it’s time to get new elected officials. Don’t you?