How in the world is right-sizing their operations to restore self sufficiency “running it into the ground”? You’re blaming Trump for them being stuck in a hole that was dug a decade ago, while at the same time criticizing them for not eagerly continuing to dig even deeper.
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Public approval of the post office was/is the highest of any federal agency, over 90%. Apparently most of the public finds value in its operation and doesn’t want further cuts in services.
There’s much larger spending areas (like the military industrial complex) that even a miniscule cut would be much more than a few $B.
Those at Fox were just trying to be nice about Biden’s night. We Republicans had some upbringings that most of the loony Lefties don’t understand. What Obama did on his night was a disgrace.
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If you can give $20 billion to farmers after destroying their business with China, you sure can give a few billion to the Post Office to keep it running.
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FBI Probing Bannon on $300 million deal
"Steve Bannon’s fraud indictment linked to fundraising for a U.S.-Mexico border wall isn’t his only legal headache. The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI and SEC are also investigating a $300 million investment offering for a planned media company tied to Bannon and fugitive Chinese businessman Guo Wengui.
Investigators are examining whether GTV Media or associates of Guo violated securities laws, according to the Journal’s sources. Soon after the investment offering, people began demanding refunds, saying they never received documentation verifying their investments, the newspaper reported. JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo have already frozen accounts tied to the money raised in the operation, sources said."
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Funny inter-related factoid: It was the USPS that arrested and took into custody Bannon while he was on his yacht.
Yes, they do more than just deliver mail…
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"President Trump expanded his “birther” conspiracy theories on Thursday to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, telling a crowd in Pennsylvania that Biden “wasn’t born” in the state because he moved to Delaware with his family when he was a child.
“He’d say he was born here,” Trump told listeners in Scranton. “But he left when he was like 8, 9 or 10. So he left 68 years ago, he left — a long time ago. So I view it differently. He wasn’t born here. He abandoned Scranton!”
And public approval for giving out free money is high too, doesn’t mean it’s a good idea or that they want to pay for it. If the services don’t cover their costs, raise the costs or lower the services.
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You don’t reform an agency by crippling it and making it worse. The USPS is a vital agency and, if you can give $20 billion to farmers, many of them corporate or rich people like Chuck Grassley. you can surely support a vital agency and improve it without crippling it.
Well yeah. But the authorization to set up (and fund) postal services dates back to the founding of the country and is enshrined in the constitution. It’s one of the few government services specifically recognized and seen as critically necessary in the constitution. Call it “giving out free money” or call it “not needing to turn a profit every quarter to satisfy short term investors like a private business would, but instead planning to generally break even on-average while providing essential basic services is OK”, if you will. There’s definitely multiple ways to look at it. I personally don’t think it makes sense to shrink basic infrastructure in a downturn. And therefore I see no need for the post office to need to turn a profit every single quarter (or even every year).
What makes sense for private companies that are directly responsible to short term investors is not always what makes sense for the public good.
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So? That’s based on them providing a service at a budget-busting loss. Of course people are happy getting a level of service far beyond what they’re paying for.
Doesnt want cuts in service? Fine, then start paying $2 per first class stamp. Then that high level of service can be maintained. At least until volume evaporates - then it’ll be more like $10 per stamp, but your letter will get very personalized service along it’s trip.
Again, it simply doesnt matter how much is spent on other things. You keep ignoring that additional funding needs to be appropriated before it can be spent. It hasnt been, so that leaves the Post Office with exactly two option - spend less or charge more. No matter what the public wants.
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As noted before, the Post Office (rather, the vague concept of a post office) is mentioned in the Constitution. Once. In one single sentence. And not in any possible way to construe it as being a required service.
You can fail to see the need for the post office to break even fiscally. And in a way I’d agree. But the fact is they have not been given the money to run at a deficit. Until that actually happens, it isnt an available option.
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Well yeah, I said that too… You seem to be agreeing and simultaneously pretending to disagree.
For people the post office matters to, along with a host of other issues, they will vote accordingly.
It’s one small part of why there is currently an historically unprecedented polling lead for a candidate running to unseat a POTUS running for reelection, even though the challenger candidate may be fairly mediocre. And also why there was a weird combined DNC/Republican convention this week while there’ll be a Reality TV show next week.
Someone likes poll updates everyday, so here’s one they may like:
Don’t you know. Vanity Fair… MONEY, MONEY, MONEY…Talk time & who cares if it’s true or not.
Thanks Honkinggoose. Very nice remarks that I appreciate. 
DeJoy Says USPS Won’t Reinstall More Than 600 Removed Mail Sorting Machines
“There’s no intention to do that,” DeJoy testified. “They’re not needed.”
President Trump has admitted that he is refusing to fund the USPS because he doesn’t want mail voting to be expanded."
Leaked USPS email tells postal workers not to reconnect or reinstall sorting machines ‘that have been previously disconnected’
They also are not replacing mailboxes that have not been removed.
This order supersedes local plant managers, who would know more about what is going on in their facility, and have sometimes ordered them reconnected.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/leaked-usps-email-tells-postal-183434321.html
Trump Told Homeland Security To Take Its Orders From Lou Dobbs
" President Donald Trump told officials from the Department of Homeland Security to get their marching orders by listening to Fox Business host Lou Dobbs “every night,” former DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor told Anderson Cooper on Friday.
Dobbs, an effusive supporter of Trump, was basically the “shadow chief of staff” for the department, Taylor said in the CNN interview.
“The president would call us and … he would say, ‘Why the hell didn’t you watch Lou Dobbs last night? You need to listen to Lou. What Lou says is what I want to do,’” Taylor said."
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