Army veteran who worked as a forklift operator at a local warehouse. The Trump administration gets this point, and in the next few months we may well see a deal where the USPS gets an infusion to help it weather the COVID-19 storm and the changes it needs to survive in the digital 21st century.Shabazz was found dead just inside his front door, with four cartridge casings found on the floor nearby. Yes, the Postal Service needs an infusion to help it deal with a massive drop in mail volume due to COVID-19.īut more than that, the agency desperately needs reform. What the Left fails to understand is pretty rudimentary: throwing money at an agency running structural deficits is stupid. The agency reports it has 100,000 of them. Lastly, it also is the case that the USPS hires lots of veterans. Oh, and by the way, the president himself votes by mail. The elderly - and Republicans generally - vote by mail disproportionately. The elderly depend on the USPS to deliver prescription drugs and the paper mail - often preferred over digital communications. Try closing a rural post office, and rural residents will grab their pitchforks.
What do they all have in common beyond their affection for Trump? They like the Postal Service and depend on it. He is especially popular among the elderly, veterans, and residents of rural areas. Then there is the matter of Trump’s base. So why exactly would he kill an agency that is, as the Gallup pollsters note, “America’s favorite federal agency”? The president, as everyone knows, really wants to get reelected, and he cares about his ratings. There is a reason only the USPS delivers paper mail to nearly every home in America along with the Virgin Islands, Guam, and Puerto Rico - it is not lucrative.Īnd the notion that the president wants the Postal Service to cease operations is so absurd that it should not require comment. Mail volume is down more than 30 percent. And demand for USPS’s services have plunged over the past decade. By law the USPS has a heavily unionized workforce who every four years negotiate more expensive compensation contracts. Besides, who exactly would want to buy the Postal Service? It is an agency with $130 billion in unfunded pension and retiree health-care obligations.
His postal reform commission expressly rejected privatization. It is difficult to express just how inane these claims are.įor one, hardly anyone wants to privatize the Postal Service. The outrage has been burning for days, stoked by the usual suspects, like John Dean and the Daily Kos. Trump wants to shut down the Postal Service so that people cannot vote by mail. Trump wants to kill the Postal Service to hurt Jeff Bezos, whose uses USPS to deliver some of its parcels. Trump wants to bankrupt the agency so he can sell it off and privatize it. Three different conspiracies emerged, and all of them slapped evil horns on the president: Thence to social media, and then craziness erupted. But the Washington Post’s story went viral, with other newspapers and media picking it up. Trump and company rejected the bill and told Congress they beleaguered agency could have a $10 billion loan instead.Īll of this should have been old news - Trump signed the law on March 27. House of Representatives Democrats had tried to slip a more than $30 billion bailout into the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). The Twitter-steria stemmed from a report that the Trump administration opposed giving the U.S. And I say that as someone who has spent 17 years studying postal policy. That’s weird, seeing as the Post Office is, well, the Post Office. Over the weekend, #postalservice began trending on Twitter.
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