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Showing Original Post only (View all)Return to Sender: US Post Office actually has an operating PROFIT [View all]
http://www.nationofchange.org/return-sender-1363527234Rooted in the Constitution and older than the country itself, the U.S. Postal Service supports 7.5 million private-sector jobs in the mailing industry. The Postal Service is essential to the fast-growing Internet sales industry. And the USPS is navigating this struggling economy relatively well, even making an operating profit in the most recent quarter.
Yes, making a profit. When you count how much money the Postal Service earned on postage, and subtract how much it spent delivering the mail and paying related bills, the Postal Service earned a $100 million profit in the last three months of 2012. And remember, the USPS uses no taxpayer money.
So why all this talk about the Postal Service losing money? And why is Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe planning to end Saturday mail delivery?
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"The $5 aspirin is to pay for all of the aspirins they give to uninsured deadbeats...
MannyGoldstein
Mar 2013
#43
This whole "privatization" crap re: the post office REALLY makes me mad as hell.
loudsue
Mar 2013
#4
Don't throw 'em away. "no postage necessary..."gets mailed back to sender if it's from a hated corp.
canoeist52
Mar 2013
#14
I'd like to again point out that you can get removed from their mailing lists
They_Live
Mar 2013
#21
The Democrats thought they were helping the union. The Republicans knew they were stangling govt. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2013
#27
Just a ploy to have a Private Equity Firm seize the USPS and plunder the pension fund. nt
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2013
#30
Even thought that's contrary to your Birther mentality, it's not surprising.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2013
#34
Not to 'plunder', no sane person would telegraph that. But a PE privatization, definitely.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2013
#38
they may be stupid (though i think that's doubtful). the people who fund them are not. and
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#45
Here is the appropriate section from the House Bill as it was introduced on 7 Dec 2006
hack89
Mar 2013
#63
K&R Just another scheme to enhance corporate welfare at taxpayer expense. USPS gets no taxpayer
Egalitarian Thug
Mar 2013
#28
What HiPointDem said. I am consistently amazed at how many far right-wing distortions and
Egalitarian Thug
Mar 2013
#46
Just as I suspected, there is no point. You don't understand and don't want to understand.
Egalitarian Thug
Mar 2013
#50
the link shows how the 'loss' was created by congress. but you'd have to read the article to
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#49
There are no gov't agencies or private co's which prepay for unhired future retiree health benefits
brentspeak
Mar 2013
#75
There was an accounting rule change in 1990 which caused companies to pre fund retiree benefits.
former9thward
Mar 2013
#76
The pre-funded payments maybe the bulk, but according to Donohoe they still would have lost $3B
tammywammy
Mar 2013
#66