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Remember when Biden kept Trumpist Louis DeJoy who helped run USPS into the ground? Anyone who says Biden didn't have that power, the board does, gets blocked for pedantry. He chose board members.

THIS Junk mail should cost MORE than regular mail, not LESS

They are this is exactly what they planned during the 45 administration

I don’t believe it. MAGA GOP wants to get rid of the USPS so we can’t mail our ballots! Plenty of taxpayer dollar$$ for an illegal war so there must be plenty $$$ somewhere else for the US Postal Service! 😡 VOTE BLUE to end this MAGA GOP BS! 👍🏻👏🏻👍🏻💙🇺🇸💙❗️❗️❗️

Really they have decades to fix this. Sad.

The postal service is not supposed to make money. DeJoy ran it like a business and ran it into the ground to pave the way for for-profit mail services. And no one in Washington was against that.

So? Everything's more expensive than it was yesterday, and that will be true tomorrow too. Fund America.

(Postage is a tax)

Will cripple mail in voting, BUT THAT'S THE POINT!!!

FedEx and UPS are the USPS biggest customers. They rely on services only the USPS provides like address verification. Once the USPS is gone FedEx and UPS will have to raise their prices. It's not even "will raise them (due to lack of public alternative)", though that's also a possibility.

Millions who are ill, mobility impaired, living in remote locations, & in the military will no longer be able to VOTE. OR it will be MUCH more expensive, with no guarantee the ballot will be delivered, or accepted when it arrives. Please think about someone other than yourself in this matter. /end

When the postal service goes, you will never again be delivered a package that wasn't a foot away from someone peeing in a Gatorade bottle in the back of a hot truck to not to run afoul of the AWS tracking metrics.

That should be a winning campaign message for the GOP with senior voters who receive their meds by mail-especially those living in rural areas with limited access to pharmacies. Those same elderly Republican voters are also reluctant to pay bills online & have their bills delivered by mail. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Time to pass the proposal to allow the USPS to offer banking services. The USPS has to fund all future pensions with money set aside now.

Bullshit.

yet we have money to give to israel and bomb other countries??? 💀

Old what's-his-face that Trump put in to run the USPS did resign. However, "me thinks" there's a rat in the basket. It's making sure the books are written to show that the USPS will go bankrupt. And to remedy this situation, all it would take is one more investigation.

It is a public service. It is not bound to money.

I work for the largest presort in the country. We run mail 24/7 Barely keep up.

It’s a public service, it doesn’t need to be profitable.

despite that they have managed to pass a bunch of legislation through the normal means that political parties do when they don't have complete control but didn't care enough to fight this one, and also they had a bunch of times with complete control in the prior decades to nip this in the bud

SERVICES 👏 DO 👏 NOT 👏 NEED 👏 TO 👏 MAKE 👏 A 👏 PROFIT

THIS

Maybe if USPS management followed the contracts, they wouldn’t be losing money paying out $80 million dollars a year in employee grievances

"Burdensome requirements" yeah it's called a social service??

Just in time for MAIL IN BALLOTS!

Will you run a story about the military industrial complex needing hundreds of billions of dollars every year to stay afloat?

The post office is in the constitution!!!!

He’s trying to PRIVATIZE IT, so you can vote and they can control communication to masses. They are trying to control all forms of communication. He’s going to sell the Postal Service to Foreign Investors!

Maybe the US Postal Service could explore expanding on its original mission to account for changing technology. And continue as a well run not for profit organization. Well, it's a thought anyway.

Last but not least, I'd like an example of any "major roadblock" where someone is pointing fingers at "those damn Dems". Anyone saying that either has no idea how Congress works, or needs exposure to fact-based sources of news, or both.

And just to be clear: There is no way "we can fund without them". I won't explain the Congressional funding process, but I hope you already know that Rcons control what comes up for a vote in the House & the Senate. EVERYTHING we don't have in terms of funding is THEIR FAULT. #BlameRepublicons

Rcons are 100% responsible for the continuation of this horror show. Rcons could end his presidency TODAY. But there is NOTHING Dems can do to stop him without Republican cooperation. Not one single thing. That's not "pointing fingers at the other side". That's facing facts. #BlameRepublicons

Because of purposeful mismanagement. We have all seen this coming for years. It’s in the damn project book! Anyway, the post office isn’t a for-profit business, it’s a mandated government service.

The postal service isn’t a business. They don’t need to make money. Increase the money from the government.

202 224 3121 Congressional Switchboard resist.bot/petitions/PL... @resist.bot #USPS #PostalWorkers #bluecrew

There are few institutions left that Rs haven't fully destroyed. The Post Office is one of them. For now...

I just wish it was global. The way we treat even the poorest person with dignity and respect is something all branches of government should aspire to.

Well, I still love you guys. Thank you for all your hard work, rain, sleet, or shine. You guys rock!

No postal service, no mail in voting…

Everything T touches dies.

This is unacceptable

It is a government SERVICE. It is not a corporation that needs to turn a profit. Let it die and you complete the job of the destruction of our democratic republic.

What a shame ,post office makes enough money . The change to funding the pensions , and the mismanagement. could be corrected.

I feel like this is going to end up screwing over the union workers at the post office even harder.

It would cost less if they sent items the 15 miles from sender to addressee instead of - for no particular reason- 6 states away and back. This just happened to me and I couldn’t help but wonder if it was intentional: sabotage from those at the top who want to be broken.

Get rid of the requirement to have the pension funded for 75 years and you might find some money

It's a social service, let's fund it instead of bombing kids

Oops, I meant to say we may have to stop delivery before midterm elections!

Working on removing one more Universal service for all people. Costs Of postal service within the reach of all people. No wonder it's a target of the creature.

The Constitution says it must be funded.

There's a billion a day to bomb school girls but No money for delivering gramma's medicines.

It will shut down just in time for all the mail in ballots to fail

Every day we hear about another government service lost to us, and meanwhile Trump and billionaires are getting richer. It's clear to see what's going on here.

Every single person ever appointed by Trump to any agency was sent there with the sole purpose of destroying it. Start with Russell Vought. His job is to throw widows into the street. RFK Jr. is well on his way to killing us all. Kristy Noem made ICE into the Waffen-SS. The USPS will be destroyed.

FUCK

And no one saw this coming? As they say a slippery slide into 2026/2028- fee.org/articles/pos...

Just about election time.

how much mail can we get delivered with this?

The notion that the Postal Service should "make money" or be "self-funding" is anathema to its mission, which is to make mail/parcel delivery available to everyone at an affordable price. It's like claiming FEMA, or the National Weather Service should be making money. News orgs should note this.

a Direct attack on mail in voting..!

Last year I created a downloadable/customizable “USPS Teach-In Workshop & Toolkit” that folks can use *anytime* to organize an action-oriented event in their community. I’ll be updating slides in light of current events for anyone who wants to help fight for the post office 💌 usps-teach-in.carrd.co

The USPS isn’t there to make money. It never was.

#GodSavetheUSA #VoteCodeBlue Resuscitate U.S. Now Out of this nightmare! #voteBlue

Dread the demise of the Post Office❓ Well, thank the Republicans. They have been trying to kill it for decades! And the money they save can be spent on Argentina, frills at the Pentagon or just more golf trips for FOTUS😡

And how do mail-in ballots work then?

We know the actual problem. Do you?

Money isn't real. Capitalism destroys everything

It's a Constitutionally required component of our government. The GOP is showing their contempt for the USA by making it flounder.

The leader of the USPS is there to destroy the USPS.

The new postmaster general had a key role on board of FedEx for more than 12 years. Something tells me he doesn't give a good got damn whether the USPS survives.

And it makes no sense as those for-profit businesses rely on the USPS for maintaining addresses, last-mile deliveries, and a host of other services that it basically does at-cost so that they can sweep in and take the bulk of the money-making postage services.

here's the thing: it WOULD be profitable if not for the burdensome 75-year pension funding requirement. they literally have to fund the retirements of employees that haven't even been born yet! in australia, AusPost is profitable. not by heaps, but it also doesn't need to be.

To be entirely fair, given civil asset forfeiture and other forms of police corruption, I bet there are police departments that make a profit, not that it'll show up in the accounting books.

Are those requirements burdensome? Is there any way for @npr.org to figure that out? Not without bothering Republicans.

And I'd just like to say that the staff at my local Edmond, Oklahoma, office is great: friendly, informative, helpful, full of humor. maps.app.goo.gl/H7Bu3uHBFZQX...

12 million on lobster, 15.1 million on ribeyes, 225 million on furniture. The Pentagon spent 93 billion dollars in one month, yet somehow a cheap, public service that benefits everyone costs too much.

Trumpublicans have been working to bankrupt USPS for years in their effort to privatize everything. It's a service for citizens not just another source of profit. It's the longest-running government agency going back to Ben Franklin and is part of out country's fabric. It should be preserved.

This is absolute bullshit

My daughter mailed the Chinese New Year's Card's on February 10. The first thank you arrived on March 7. She paid over $1.00 per card to mail them. Is there any question about declining mail volume?

Which Party controls the Executive AND Both Houses 🤔

This administration may not be aware of the constitution

You may not have noticed that his administration ignores the Constitution whenever it wants to, while the R-controlled Congress and Supreme Court just look the other way

They should take ICE funding and use it for the USPS. After all, the USPS is in the constitution. ICE is not.

Not sure the USPS is going to make it that long. But if they kill it we can bring it back.

The Republicans have been working on this for years. All in attempt to stop Vote by Mail disenfranchising military living abroad, the elderly and disabled and many more citizens! It must be stopped!

Maybe if the US wasn't spending billions everyday bombing a country without consent of Congress, we could afford a Postal Service - which is actually in the CONSTITUTION. Maybe if Noem hadn't spent billions on her concentration camps we could afford a Postal Service.

I don't need junk mail delivered everyday. I'd be okay if they cut back on some of the services to save money and maybe deliver junk mail Tuesdays and Thursdays instead?

That tracks. DeJoy was also tied to private mail services.

"Service" is right there in the name. I pay for and expect it to continue. It's not a business that needs to break even or be profitable. It's a service we fund and get. It's up to the gov to continue to toss my money into the hole that keeps it running. Shutting it down shouldn't be an option

Ya know, it's crazy how little the postal service is brought up during arguments for free speech, because what frees up speech more than being able to ship it across the country for a low price?

Man tasked with running social service into the ground reports he is succeeding.