OK fellow Kossacks, who died and put these two complete and total SCHMUCKS in charge of the Constitution? The USPS is mandated in our founding documents so wtf.
Don’t they have to enforce the goddam law? Or what? I’m getting mad over here.
Through rain, sleet, hail, and even a pandemic, mail carriers serve every address in the United States, but the coronavirus crisis is shaking the foundation of the U.S. Postal Service in new and dire ways.
The Postal Service’s decades-long financial troubles have worsened dramatically, as the volume of the kind of mail that pays the agency’s bills — first-class and marketing mail — has withered during the pandemic. The USPS needs an infusion of money, and President Trump has blocked potential emergency funding for the agency that employs around 600,000 workers, repeating instead the false claim that higher rates for Internet shipping companies Amazon, FedEx and UPS would right the service’s budget.
Trump threatened to veto the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or Cares Act, if the legislation contained any money directed to bail out the postal agency, according to a senior Trump administration official and a congressional official who, like others in this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity.
People.
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS.
I’m calling my Rep and my Senators. Again.
Ideas?
The Postal Service employs veterans among other things, and minorities, and women, and it provides an absolutely essential service at a very low cost. The people trust it. It’s part of the very fabric of America.
I am finding it difficult not to think bad thoughts about Trump. I’m trying to be positive. But grrrrrrrrr.
www.washingtonpost.com/...
Sunday, Apr 12, 2020 · 3:03:00 AM +00:00
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Colorado Blue
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The Postal Service projects it will lose $2 billion each month through the coronavirus recession while postal workers maintain the nationwide service of delivering essential mail and parcels, such as prescriptions, food and household necessities.
That work often comes at great personal risk. Nearly 500 postal workers have tested positive for the coronavirus and 462 others are presumptive positives, USPS leaders told lawmakers. Nineteen have died; more than 6,000 are in self-quarantine because of exposure.