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dotymed

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39. This Christmas the USPS showed, once again,
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 08:22 AM
Mar 2014

That it is MUCH more efficient than ANY privatized nation-wide mail/package delivery system.
Sickeningly "our Congress" Keeps pushing it into bankruptcy so it can be privatized. That way all of them and their owners can realize huge profits. Of course this will result in price-fixing and probably a monopolization of delivery services. Even paying their employees shit wages, they cannot compete with the USPS. Of course they are not required "by LAW" to fund their retirement benefits for 75 years in advance. Probably most of them do not have retirement benefits except for their over-paid executives. This is just another plan to rip-off the extremely under-paid average Americans who depend on this still (despite congressional efforts) affordable service.

I am psyched that so far both Senator Sanders and Robert Reich have announced their willingness to seek the office of POTUS in 2016.
I KNOW that POTUS is not the one fucking with the USPS but I also know the power that office and its "bully pulpit" wield.
That power has the potential to completely change the current "all for money" attitude of Americans and their greed driven "leaders."
I desperately hope that if we survive another 2 years, Americans will elect a POTUS, not of the corporate persuasion and change this heinous, current paradigm. Fuck Party, FDR, etc, would not recognize "our" party anyway.

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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
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