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In reply to the discussion: Some things about the USPS [View all]Milliesmom
(493 posts)16. Call your friends and family
Call everyone you know, have them do the same. Petition Congress to give the USPS their money back that they stole. Not one private company has ever had to pay ahead 50 years on retirement for employees. How can congress dictate what a private company that takes no tax money from the public has to do. If they can do this to the USPS then they can overtake any private business.
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yet another public institution people are apparently okay with the republicans destroying
liberal_at_heart
Feb 2013
#1
My postman made an off color comment once when he handed me my Time magazine
Dustlawyer
Feb 2013
#19
Indeed. I wonder if the same people who buy $1.00 soda from the vending machine daily
alp227
Feb 2013
#46
In Switzerland, we pay the equivalent of $1.09 for a first-class stamp and it's not a burden.
Heidi
Feb 2013
#49
And UPS and others are allowed to skim the cream off the top of the mail business.
rhett o rick
Feb 2013
#10
If the Postal Service hadn't been forced a Rep Congress to fund 75 years of retirement benefits,
amandabeech
Feb 2013
#36
Imagine: Gov demands in 10 years, pay your retirement, your child's, that child's, 75 years worth.
Festivito
Feb 2013
#13
unfortunately it seems we can be talked into almost anything in the name of saving money. We are
jwirr
Feb 2013
#31
Ed touched on it tonight. The people that will suffer the most from no Saturday delivery
bluestate10
Feb 2013
#44
You should look into how the USPS is forced to subsidize FedEx and UPS by Congress.
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#48
Why would we need to raise rates, if the USPS could get out from under from prefunding the
RC
Feb 2013
#54