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Dark Night of the Soul for the Post Office!

Postal Union Members Rally Against 'Death Spiral of Cuts and Closures' | Common Dreams

Postal Union Members Rally Against 'Death Spiral of Cuts and Closures' | Common Dreams
"With Congress weeks away from deciding the fate of Saturday Postal Service delivery, some postal union members are saying the fight must be not only about saving six-day delivery but about stopping the multi-pronged assault on the postal system including privatization efforts."

The USPS Media #FAIL

The USPS Media #FAIL
"Since then, our news media has completely botched the story, and given cover to a Republican Party and its corporate donors. For years they've been trying to destroy the United States Post Office - the largest employer of unionized workers in the nation – and now they're making it happen. But almost nobody is reporting on that aspect of it."

Fox' Bolling Blames Union Contracts for the U.S. Postal Service's Financial Woes

Fox' Bolling Blames Union Contracts for the U.S. Postal Service's Financial Woes
"Leave it to Fox to do the bidding of the House Republicans and their allies, who are doing their best to try to destroy the U.S. Postal Service. Never mind the damage that would be done to the elderly who rely on the mail to receive their prescriptions, small businesses and Americans who live in rural areas with shoddy Internet service and the thousands of Americans who earn a decent middle class living from being employed there."

Why We Must Rescue the U.S. Postal Service From the Brink of Death | Alternet

Why We Must Rescue the U.S. Postal Service From the Brink of Death | Alternet
"For three years Congress debated what to do. Finally, in 2006 it passed a law that requires the Postal Service to pre-pay its health insurance fund by depositing an additional $5 billion a year for the next 10 years into the insurance fund to offset for the phantom accounting deficit under the unified budget. No other public or private agency is required to do anything remotely comparable."

Republicans Applaud The Slow Death Of The US Postal Service

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Condemning the U.S. Postal Service’s Move to End Saturday Delivery | Common Dreams

Condemning the U.S. Postal Service’s Move to End Saturday Delivery | Common Dreams
"The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) today continued its tradition, under the leadership of Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, of shooting itself in the foot. The only question that remains is: When will the madness end? By ending Saturday letter delivery in August 2013, as the USPS has proposed, millions of customers who take advantage of its services will be harmed, mail service will be slowed, and the USPS’s current death spiral will deepen."

Postal Cuts Are Austerity on Steroids | Common Dreams

Postal Cuts Are Austerity on Steroids | Common Dreams
"Ryan and his fellow proponents of austerity manufactured the current crisis in USPS funding, when they enacted the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 (PAEA). The PAEA forced the Postal Service to prefund its future healthcare benefit payments to retirees for the next seventy-five years. That’s something no major corporation could or would do, as it required the service to divert more than $5 billion annually to pre-pay the health benefits of retirees who have not yet been hired."

Thanks To Congressional Incompetence, Saturday Mail Delivery Is History

Thanks To Congressional Incompetence, Saturday Mail Delivery Is History: The U.S. Postal Service announced on Wednesday that it will discontinue first class Saturday mail delivery, marking another milestone in the decline of the once-ubiquitous government service. But it isn’t a switch to online mail that’s causing the postal demise — it’s Congress. Under the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, Congress has for years forced [...]/p

Congress Fiddles While the Post Office Burns | Common Dreams

Congress Fiddles While the Post Office Burns | Common Dreams
"Americans have heard a lot in recent days about the “default” by the United States Postal Service. And the way that much of the media covered the story would lead those who have not followed the wrangling over the USPS’s future to imagine there’s a problem with the post office."

You've Got Mail -- Or Not: Why a Job-Killing Congressional Attack May Close Your Local Post Office | Alternet

You've Got Mail -- Or Not: Why a Job-Killing Congressional Attack May Close Your Local Post Office | Alternet
"The U.S. Postal Service is a 200-year-old institution that directly provides jobs for half a million people and many times that number in industries that depend upon it. The Postal Service receives not a penny of taxpayer money, and even made a  tidy profit  in the first quarter of this year. Yet this trusted federal agency is under siege from a phony "fiscal crisis" created by Congress in an unjustified attack on workers and much-need services. It's no surprise that those seeking to further privatize universal public services and weaken labor unions are  leading the charge .

It's time to set the record straight."