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."
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
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."
"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."
"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
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