The politics of the postal
service is heating up. Something has to be done to make the service profitable
again. Since 2010 there hasn’t even been any real leadership in the United
States Board of Governors in the Postal Service. The Board is hugely important
because it sets rates and signs off on personnel decisions. All of a sudden the
Postal Service is getting a lot of attention because the President has been
tweeting about it. On March 31, 2018 Dumb Donald tweeted that Amazon is robbing
the Postal Service blind. Meanwhile his tweets was really an attack on the
owner of Amazon who also owns The Washington Post that reveals on a regular
basis all that is wrong with this Administration. Trump loves to take swipes at
all who are critical of him being the Master of Self-Promotion that he is.
His tweets have opened some
serious discussions about the Postal Service that has been ignored for a very
long time. Senator Bernie Sanders has some ideas as to how we can save this
unique service that all Americans have and should be saved since things to help
us are going away rapidly in society. He wants to offer wrapping services at
the Post Office to expedite our stuff to go places. During Christmas time lots
of people like to mail gifts. Imagine just leaving our stuff there and they
will box and ship. Sounds like something we all could enjoy. All we need is a
Congressional mandate.
The facts are that the Postal Service
is a huge business. It employs more than 645,000 workers. It has well over 157
million delivery sites. It owns 231,000 vehicles to deliver your stuff
anywhere. So, in this internet smart phone age it has billions of dollars in
revenue shortfalls since it basically delivers only your junk mail these days.
So what are our choices to save the service? Expand its services or take it out
of the government’s hands? President Trump wants to privatize everything. Just
like the Veterans Administration, just like Medicare, just like Public Schools
he wants private companies to take over the business of running things. So
would a private business owning the Post Office deliver mail to someone who
lives out of the way on a dirt road? Hell no, that wouldn’t be profitable
meanwhile people in poor rural areas need their mail.
The Postal Service could instead
of ruining our already established employees and easy to reach locations could
expand going to the Post Office to doing other things we need like banking
services. Post Offices in other countries already offer banking services. Our
Senators need to get going on this issue and do something to save stuff for
Americans instead of closing down established services we all enjoy.
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