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Thu Mar 20, 2014, 11:33 PM

Mar 2014

A Manufactured ‘Crisis’: Congress Can Let The Post Office Save Itself Without Mass Layoffs Or Service Reductions

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/28/330524/postal-non-crisis-post-office-save-itself/

Sen. Elizabeth Warren Proposes Replacing Payday Lenders With the Post Office

http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/04/sen-elizabeth-warren-proposes-replacing-payday-lenders-with-the-post-office/

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U.S. Postal Service to reduce workforce by 10,000 in 2015 [View all] Redfairen Mar 2014 OP

POS Congress fucked over the USPS and so once again fucked over Americans. nt valerief Mar 2014 #1

If the PO were a country... dixiegrrrrl Mar 2014 #8

This Christmas the USPS showed, once again, dotymed Mar 2014 #39

Yep, that GOP House is really a jobs creation machine. 10,000 to lose good jobs sinkingfeeling Mar 2014 #43

Except when they're raising the pension requirements on union jobs like USPS. nt valerief Mar 2014 #44

All due to Republicans screwing it over sakabatou Mar 2014 #2

^^ This. AzDar Mar 2014 #10

It wasn't a republican bill. It was bipartisan. Travis_0004 Mar 2014 #37

Ted Kennedy and Henry Waxman? madville Mar 2014 #23

Can't hang this one on the Repubs, they were ALL in on it. Kilgore Mar 2014 #28

That's going to make things even tougher for Amazon Sherman A1 Mar 2014 #3

Amazon... toddwv Mar 2014 #41

That's a lot of unemployed people. dreamstst Mar 2014 #4

Sure is and those folks are represented. lonestarnot Mar 2014 #31

Are they? dreamstst Mar 2014 #46

I know.. :( Cha Mar 2014 #53

Wonder what rural mail carriers will do newfie11 Mar 2014 #5

That's right. dreamstst Mar 2014 #47

Sure that won't effect the economy at all abelenkpe Mar 2014 #6

Through retirements and attrition yeoman6987 Mar 2014 #13

Nah, why save good union jobs. Who needs those? lonestarnot Mar 2014 #32

Why they don't permit POs to do credit union style simple banking transactions is beyond me. MADem Mar 2014 #7

That's easy. toddwv Mar 2014 #42

I am familiar with overpriced mail service, and it really does suck. MADem Mar 2014 #49

The GD'd Koch Sociopaths Are Behind the Financial "Struggle" BodieTown Mar 2014 #9

Looks bipartisan to me, the question is why....... Kilgore Mar 2014 #33

Somebody At DU Explained It Last Year BodieTown Mar 2014 #45

Koch whores and Dems are not mutually exclusive by any stretch Doctor_J Mar 2014 #50

I thought Republicans were against the government picking winners and losers ? Trust Buster Mar 2014 #11

It was a bipartisan bill madville Mar 2014 #26

I wonder how much this has to do ballyhoo Mar 2014 #12

I went on the USPS website for stats OnlinePoker Mar 2014 #14

God, I had no idea....... ballyhoo Mar 2014 #19

We must protect the horse carriage industry. Psephos Mar 2014 #15

Would you mind detailing some of the aspects of the outmoded business model? kristopher Mar 2014 #16

Sure. :) Psephos Mar 2014 #51

and yet they out-performed Fedex over Christmas Skittles Mar 2014 #52

That's perhaps the most argument-free response I've ever gotten here. n/t Psephos Mar 2014 #54

Congress has REFUSED to allow the USPS to change its business model BodieTown Mar 2014 #17

So Sherman A1 Mar 2014 #18

My brother was just telling me of the scandal in his town. Hassin Bin Sober Mar 2014 #22

Here: pa28 Mar 2014 #29

CONgress' anti-USPS finally paying its dividends. CONgress must be SO HAPPY. CONgress = job killers blkmusclmachine Mar 2014 #20

Not what we employees just heard PATRICK Mar 2014 #21

Dude lordsummerisle Mar 2014 #25

'They', congress? made them pre-fund billions in some 'retirement' account and screwed their books. Sunlei Mar 2014 #24

Most of what you are proposing has been done. Travis_0004 Mar 2014 #27

Another Internet Expert who has no clue what the hell he is talking about brentspeak Mar 2014 #48

Poison pill bill passed during * admin was designed to destroy the USPS Triana Mar 2014 #30

So why was it a bipartisan bill??? Kilgore Mar 2014 #34

Upthred, I said dotymed Mar 2014 #40

Because the lines at the post office aren't long enough. nt Deep13 Mar 2014 #35

Fuck the government SamKnause Mar 2014 #36

+1 newfie11 Mar 2014 #38