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(37,127 posts)fuck up the government run operation and farm is out to their donor-buddies.
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)dotymed
(5,610 posts)This has already happened across the midwest. Many of their (USPS) once nice facilities, are now located in trailers and rented spaces. Just another public service that "they" want to privatize to increase "their" wealth. Usually these rented spaces are owned by politicians and they charge huge rent. Ironically (?) the empty, former post offices, usually remain empty and become eye-sores.
Then they can have part-time employees earning minimum wage, no benefits, etc.... while "they" get wealthier..... just like the Wal-Mart business model.
Only WE can change the game.
I guess until everyone is aware of all of the things ruining our nation (thanks MSM) the people remain clueless. Just like "they" want it.
Yes, it is a conspiracy.....not a theory.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,489 posts)This is the same thing they are doing to our Public Schools. They are making them so bad that we will all jump to Charter Schools! I hate these greedy bastards!
Michigan-Arizona
(762 posts)He work's at the postal office downtown Detroit. My daughter is a teacher & he is forever telling her that teacher's make to much, have summer's off, etc., etc.,,,,.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)...requiring that they pre-pay their retirement program 75 years ahead. They're not bankrupt or losing money. This requirement, heretofore unheard of in any public or private business, shackled on the USPS by a GOP-ridden Congress, has destroyed the financial viability of the USPS. Now, the corprat vultures move in for privatization. It was the plan all along.
Another thing, the USPS has UNIONS. GOP *hates* that. And this is another reason they want it privatized - to get rid of postal unions.
There's NO QUESTION about what this is - another GOP-manufactured "crisis" pretentiously formulated to help move public money (and services) into inefficient, expensive, greedy, private, corporate hands.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,338 posts)can't Congress (a more responsible one, anyway) undo this?
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)...maybe question is, will they do it?
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,338 posts)n/t
coldbeer
(306 posts)I don't want to pay more for stamps. I don't mind the cost
right now. Fifty cents a letter is all I want to pay.
However, I would be more than happy to donate if
I knew who to donate to.
tclambert
(11,077 posts)Believe me, loved ones go nuts for the real hand-written love letters. Sending some cookies works wonders, too.
First class mail is where the Postal Service has seen a decline. For a long time now, first class mail has subsidized all that business advertisement. They get cheaper rates for harder to process mail, as a way of encouraging commerce.
reteachinwi
(579 posts)Tell them to undo the 2006 legislation that requires 75 years of funding for postal workers and retired postal workers health care. USPS would be profitable if not for this requirement.
http://www.apwu.org/index2.htm
mckara
(1,708 posts)Our turn, now?
tclambert
(11,077 posts)Plus, first class rates there are almost double what they are here.
TheBlackAdder
(28,028 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)Bankrupt the Postal Service, privatize it and use the pension fund to rebuild fix expand pay massive salaries and bonenus to the CEO and upper management.