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Turbineguy

(37,127 posts)
1. It's the repub answer to everything
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 07:31 AM
Jan 2013

fuck up the government run operation and farm is out to their donor-buddies.

dotymed

(5,610 posts)
3. Berkley is fighting this, and they should.
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 09:32 AM
Jan 2013

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.

Dustlawyer

(10,489 posts)
5. And my Postman is a far right nut job who HATES Obama!
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 10:12 AM
Jan 2013

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)
15. Same with my daughter's neighbor
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 12:44 PM
Jan 2013

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)
6. Yes. That was the plan from the get-go. Gut the USPS. GOP chose to do so by...
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 10:13 AM
Jan 2013

...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)
10. Since just about everybody agrees that this was a dumb move that is hurting the USPS
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 10:24 AM
Jan 2013

can't Congress (a more responsible one, anyway) undo this?

coldbeer

(306 posts)
7. what can I do to help the Post Office?
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 10:16 AM
Jan 2013

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)
9. Write some letters. Encourage your friends to write actual letters.
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 10:22 AM
Jan 2013

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)
11. Contact congressperson and Senators
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 10:26 AM
Jan 2013

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

tclambert

(11,077 posts)
12. Japan tried privatizing their Postal Service. They hated it, and the government took it back.
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 10:32 AM
Jan 2013

Plus, first class rates there are almost double what they are here.

 

RC

(25,592 posts)
14. That, most likely, is the plan.
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 11:28 AM
Jan 2013

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.

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