The U.S. Postal Service on Thursday said it needs to shave more costs from its operations to get into better financial shape. To do that, the postal agency wants to overhaul its delivery logistics, resulting in some customers likely seeing a slowdown in their mail delivery.
If DeJoy could just get fired, and Congress could undo the asinine retirement fund the postal service is forced to fund that pays for retirement of people the post office will hire in the future. This wouldn’t be happening. They could expand service. That’s right! Georgie bush Jr and the republicans forced the USPS to pay retirement so far ahead it covers people not old enough to work there yet. Prior to that the post office had money left over and they had a good retirement plan. Plus FedEx an ups said they ain’t gonna fill in for the post office, they are not capable with their infrastructure for the prices charged. Postal service is required and a good service when it’s being run properly, and not being forced to look incompetent by two faced politicians claiming to be business savy.
Bills are almost paperless. They are he only thing we need USPS for is packages, that’s it. Some people get their meds and such through USPS.
No thanks.
Why is DeJoy still in charge of USPS?
Because Biden wants him to be. Biden has made enough appointments to the USPS Board of Governors that they would have a majority to remove DeJoy if they wanted, but Biden appointed DeJoy supporters instead.
Edit: if you downvoters think I’m wrong, reply with an alternative explanation.
USPS does not need to make a profit, this is just bonkers. I live in a rural area and don’t even get mail delivery, and for a time we didn’t even have a local post office. Here’s hoping that doesn’t happen again.
They shouldn’t be required to profit, or break even, but they pretty much are.
We’re self-funding. The Postal Service generally receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.
OTOH, not seeing how that prevents government funding:
The statute that created the Postal Service begins with the following sentence: “The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution, created by an Act of Congress, and supported by the people.” 39 U.S.C. §101(a).
