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Isoldeblue

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5. Congress needs to reminded of the same

Reply to midnight (Original post)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 12:38 AM

Feb 2013

I'd like to see who in congress has stock or a vested interest in UPS, DPI or Fed-Express.

I wish we could curtail or remove the pensions and benefits from our elected officials, as easily as they can to things like the USPS.

We need to take some of their power away!!

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The Postal Service is a public service for We, the People, not a business. [View all] midnight Feb 2013 OP

K&R nt abelenkpe Feb 2013 #1

Right. Sick elleng Feb 2013 #2

It's a government SERVICE Canuckistanian Feb 2013 #3

Congress members? The Senate? n/t Isoldeblue Feb 2013 #6

They don't take in money Canuckistanian Feb 2013 #7

I think the members take in plenty Isoldeblue Feb 2013 #9

Well, the US Mint takes in more money than it spends Art_from_Ark Feb 2013 #8

... and is vital to such functions of gov't as delivery of tax forms, SS, etc. eppur_se_muova Feb 2013 #10

actually, it is. since 1970. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #14

Richie Rich and his pug friends are stealing us further into blindness. lonestarnot Feb 2013 #4

Congress needs to reminded of the same Isoldeblue Feb 2013 #5

What Is It? gussmith Feb 2013 #11

k+r! TeamPooka Feb 2013 #12

The austerity agenda that would cut services for working Americans in order to maintain tax breaks f midnight Feb 2013 #13

+1. It's frightening what is happening. And more frightening that most people don't seem to HiPointDem Feb 2013 #15

Some interesting facts about the USPS. Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #16

The graph showing employees going down, but mail volume going up is the same old same old... midnight Feb 2013 #18

Exactly. Another interesting bit was that the all time highest volume of mail was in 2006, Egalitarian Thug Feb 2013 #20

Republicans licking their chops in glee at the prospects of the USPS being indepat Feb 2013 #17

What can people who never or rarely use the USPS do to help? Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #19