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Thursday, January 3rd, 2019

The Wholesale Destruction of Our Postal Service Is Already Underway

Author:     Jim Hightower
Source:     truthdig
Publication Date:     JAN 02, 2019
 Link: The Wholesale Destruction of Our Postal Service Is Already Underway
Stephan:   When the founders wrote the Constitution in 1787 the two federal agencies they thought to be so important that they wrote them into the Constitution were the Navy and the Post Office, and almost every American down to the present day would agree with that. Significantly, the U.S. Postal Service is, almost uniquely for American government agencies considered the best in the world, according to Foreign Policy Journal. But from the perspective of the Republicans, the Post Office is a profit machine to be privatized. Here’s the story.

Credit: Thomas Hawk

Last spring, President Trump created an inter-agency federal task force to propose structural reforms in the U.S. Postal Service.

In only two months, the task force (comprised entirely of top Trump officials) zapped out a down-and-dirty report with this key recommendation: “Prepare [USPS] for future conversion from a government agency into a privately-held corporation.”

Privatization! Are they not aware that our public postal agency is enormously popular and important to… well, to the public?

A February Pew Research poll finds that an astonishing 88 percent of Americans give the Postal Service a thumbs up. Even the president’s executive order setting up the task force conceded that the post office “is regularly cited as the Federal agency with the highest public approval rating.”

The 640,000 middle-class postal workers and letter carriers merit such kudos because they literally deliver for us. Working from 31,585 local offices, they trundle 150 billion pieces of mail a year, 4 million miles a day, to 157 million addresses across the land — from inner-city neighborhoods to back roads —  delivering all […]

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