Killing the United States Postal Service (which is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and, until Nixon, the Postmaster General was a cabinet-level position) accomplishes several things for Tump:
• Obstruct any effort towards mail-in voting.
• Payback for not (illegally) raising rates on Amazon as retaliation against Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post who Trump thinks hasn’t been “nice” to him.
• Reward private sector delivery carriers competing with the USPS such as UPS, FedEx, DHL, OnTrac and others who have donated heavily to Trump and Republican candidates
The difference, of course, is that the USPS is non-profit. It works for “we the people,” not “they the corporations. They deliver to every address, which the other services will not do, even if it is at a loss.
The USPS is entirely self-funded and is profitable. The only reason it appears otherwise is the absurd, unique requirement to pre-pay all future pension liabilities, something no other corporation or institution is required to do, and which was imposed by Republicans trying to destroy the U.S. Postal Service.
Killing the United States Postal Service (which is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and, until Nixon, the Postmaster General was a cabinet-level position) accomplishes several things for Tump:
• Obstruct any effort towards mail-in voting.
• Payback for not (illegally) raising rates on Amazon as retaliation against Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post who Trump thinks hasn’t been “nice” to him.
• Reward private sector delivery carriers competing with the USPS such as UPS, FedEx, DHL, OnTrac and others who have donated heavily to Trump and Republican candidates
The difference, of course, is that the USPS is non-profit. It works for “we the people,” not “they the corporations. They deliver to every address, which the other services will not do, even if it is at a loss.
The USPS is entirely self-funded and is profitable. The only reason it appears otherwise is the absurd, unique requirement to pre-pay all future pension liabilities, something no other corporation or institution is required to do, and which was imposed by Republicans trying to destroy the U.S. Postal Service.