The US Postal Service receives ZERO tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. Please #buystamps and help save USPS from trump and the GOP.
The twitter campaign #buystamps started in April to help save the US Postal Service. Let’s give it a boost –- here and on other social media platforms.
Go to this link store.usps.com/... and click the catalog of 84 awesome stamp designs OR use this direct link to the catalog: store.usps.com/...
Or, Buy Postcards and Postcard Stamps!
You can then send the postcards to the White House letting them know what you think about the Occupant’s efforts to destroy USPS and our voting rights: store.usps.com/...
Or, Buy Gift Items!
Over 100 cool gift items — from mail carrier costumes for you doggie and framed commemorative stamp art, to backpacks, stamp puzzles and toy USPS trucks for the kids. There’s also a Flash Sale on select items through today (Aug 16). Go to: store.usps.com/…
Please let us know in the comments if you purchased stamps and/or items to help save USPS.
USPS Facts:
The Postal Service employs more than 97,000 military veterans and is one of the largest employers of veterans in the country.
The Postal Service is at the core of the $1.6 trillion U.S. mailing industry that employs more than 7.3 million people.
The Postal Service processes and delivers 48 percent of the world's mail and is constantly innovating to make customer experiences better.
The Postal Service both competes and collaborates with the private sector. UPS and FedEx pay the Postal Service to deliver hundreds of millions of their ground packages, and USPS pays UPS and FedEx for air transportation.
The Postal Service is the only organization in the country that has the resources, network infrastructure and logistical capability to regularly deliver to every residential and business address in the nation.
The US Postal Service deliverED 1.2-billion prescription drugs In 2019 —including close to 100% of the prescriptions from the VA, according to the American Postal Workers Union.
If Jack Bainbridge couldn’t get his prescriptions through the mail, the 70-year-old Army veteran would have to make a 90-mile round trip to the VA Medical Center in Kansas City.
Instead, the retired union laborer who lives outside of Odessa, Mo., can walk outside his door, cross the road to his mailbox and be sure that the mail carrier he’s known for years will have already dropped off his blood thinners and other medication.
The U.S. Postal Service, which traces its origins to Benjamin Franklin, remains a lifeline for millions who count on getting medication and other necessities through the mail.
But the independent agency, which depends on postage for its revenue, is facing an unprecedented crisis caused by a combination of forces: a global pandemic that has drastically reduced revenues, a 2006 law that required the USPS to prepay billions for retiree health benefits and a president hostile to bailing it out. www.courier-tribune.com/...