Who The "F" is Trump to decide the fate of Ben Frankilin's Post Office?

[Cinnabar]

I hope he drops dead first.

Donald Trump just gave away his real reason for trying to squeeze the Post Office – and it’s not about the election

Because Donald Trump has been trying to put the financial squeeze on the Post Office, alarmists have interpreted this as a sign that Trump is somehow magically going to be able to get rid of the Post Office before the election, so no one can vote by mail. Trump isn’t within a million miles of having the political muscle to kill the Post Office – but today he did give away his actual motivation.

If you’re a Palmer Report regular reader, you already know why Donald Trump is trying to squeeze the Post Office. It’s the same reason the Republican Party has been trying to squeeze the Post Office for years on end now. UPS and FedEx hate that the Post Office is able to offer Priority Mail shipping at a fairly low price. So they donate to Trump and the GOP, with the expectation that they’ll force the Post Office to raise Priority Mail pricing.'

When Trump called the Post Office a “joke” today, he insisted that “the Post Office should raise the price of a package by approximately four times.” In other words, the increasingly loose lipped Trump just gave away precisely what his marching orders from UPS and FedEx are. They don’t want the Post Office gone. They don’t want the responsibility of delivering letters. They just want the Post Office to be in such a dire financial situation, it has to make up for it by charging as much for Priority Mail as UPS and FedEx charge for package shipping.

Unlike most government agencies, the Post Office has a significant revenue stream. It pays for itself, so it can’t be shut down simply by having its “funding” taken away. Trump and the GOP have been placing bizarre pension requirements on the Post Office so it’ll struggle financially – but even these restrictions won’t magically put the Post Office out of business. Trump knows this. This isn’t about somehow magically making the election go away. It’s about doing his wealthy donors’ corrupt bidding, as usual.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analys...ng-to-squeeze-the-post-office-election/27918/

 

[Teflon Don]

He’s the President. Post Office is outdated

 

[Arks&sparka]

The post office is an expense and there are free market organizations that run circles around it.

 

[Taichiliberal]

I hope he drops dead first.

there's also the fact that the USPS is largely union, and they vote mostly democrat. It's a two prong attack by corporatist and the right wing GOP.

 

[Taichiliberal]

The post office is an expense and there are free market organizations that run circles around it.

Yeah, right.....good luck with the serious mark up in service prices if the GOP and the corporations have their way.

 

[Cinnabar]

there's also the fact that the USPS is largely union, and they vote mostly democrat. It's a two prong attack by corporatist and the right wing GOP.

We need to rid the USA of these fascist haters of Democracy. Seriously! We need a new party.

 

[Arks&sparka]

Yeah, right.....good luck with the serious mark up in service prices if the GOP and the corporations have their way.

Mark up by users or through taxes I would say six one way half a dozen the other but there isn't government waste involved in private organisations

 

[BattleofHodow]

Who wants to pay for mail delivery to a corporation?

 

[PostmodernProphet]

do you think the Post Office should subsidize Amazon?......

 

[PoliTalker]

The post office takes no money from the Federal government. It completely pays for itself, plus it is under attack by Republicans. The lame duck Congress of 2006 imposed quite an onerous requirement on the USPS, which if the same requirement were forced on FedEx or UPS, they would scream bloody murder and government over reach.

Republicans actually required the USPS to prefund the retirement accounts of all postal workers, and anticipated future workers who are not even born yet, for the next 75 years.

No other for-profit corporation has had such a crushing regulation imposed on their free business.

If the president wanted to cut regulations to help out the economy, this is the most flagrant job-killing regulation out there.

Drain the swamp. Get rid of the president.

 

[Nordberg]

The Post Office has a union, one of America's biggest. That is why Repubs have been gutting it for decades. It is not supposed to be profitable but be a service to Americans. The Repubs see money in killing it. That means cutting low volume routes, cranking up prices and providing bare min. service.

 

[jimmymccready]

The post office is an expense and there are free market organizations that run circles around it.

Not at Priority Mailing.

 

[Arks&sparka]

Not at Priority Mailing.

given the opportunity I'm willing to bet Private industry could run circles around the government far more efficiently.

 

[Teflon Don]

there's also the fact that the USPS is largely union, and they vote mostly democrat. It's a two prong attack by corporatist and the right wing GOP.

So you ar saying it is win win?

Love it

 

[tsuke]

He decides because he is Doctor Lawyer President Trump, first of his name.

 

[Teflon Don]

The Post Office has a union, one of America's biggest. That is why Repubs have been gutting it for decades. It is not supposed to be profitable but be a service to Americans. The Repubs see money in killing it. That means cutting low volume routes, cranking up prices and providing bare min. service.

As if any government agency is “profitable”

Cut it loose. We need to shut down the post office to save lives and the environment

1) think of all the pollution that would be negated by shuttering all of those mail trucks?
2) think of all the airplane travel saved
3) we can’t have the Chinese virus spread from these packages to unsuspecting people while they are being handled by postal workers

It is a matter of life and death and the environment to shut down the post office. If you don’t want to shut down the post office then you want people to die from Wu Flu

 

[PostmodernProphet]

The post office takes no money from the Federal government.

you do realize that this is an issue BECAUSE of a proposal to give federal funds to the post office, right?.......

 

[PostmodernProphet]

That is why Repubs have been gutting it for decades.

what have the Republicans done to "gut" the post office......

 

[floridafan]

As if any government agency is “profitable”

Cut it loose. We need to shut down the post office to save lives and the environment

1) think of all the pollution that would be negated by shuttering all of those mail trucks?
2) think of all the airplane travel saved
3) we can’t have the Chinese virus spread from these packages to unsuspecting people while they are being handled by postal workers

It is a matter of life and death and the environment to shut down the post office. If you don’t want to shut down the post office then you want people to die from Wu Flu

Just think of all the company's that are dependent on the postal service. Think of the millions of people who get their bills by mail. No, honey bunch you just want to have a way to stop mail in voting. It aint gonna work!

 

[floridafan]

what have the Republicans done to "gut" the post office......

So quickly you forget when a republican congress forced the postal service to fund pensions for decades in advance, which led to massive postal losses.