What is REALLY behind the destruction of the Postal Service? I decided to research it ...

by Terry 22 Replies latest jw friends

  • Terry

    I don't know about you - but I never know when I'm being lied to or told the truth any longer. Partisans are tribes warring on truth. I decided to see what I could find out historically and this is what I've come up with. My points of reference are at the bottom. I would appreciate if you point out any errors I've made inadvertently. GOING POSTAL on the POSTAL SERVICE - “What really happened?”

    1. Back in 1967 Democrat President Lydon Johnson CHANGED the Postal Service from a Cabinet-level Agency of the Federal Government into a Public-Owned CORPORATION.
    It prevented the Workers Union from striking for better working conditions. Johnson outlawed strikes and forced binding Arbitration instead.
    2. Fast forward to 1980. By the 1980s, the USPS was cut off from all federal funding, forcing it to rely solely on revenue from its own products and services.
    THE WORST was yet to come.

    3. A crippling blow struck with a Senate Bill : H.R.6407 - Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act in 12/20/2006. It’s ulterior purpose was to dry up any access to money.

    Who sponsored this bill?
    One Republican and Two Democrats.
    Who passed the bill?
    It was passed almost unanimously in the House of Representatives with 201 Democrats voting Yes and one abstaining. Bernie Sanders voted “Yes.”

    -----LET’S PAUSE right here__

    The Postal Service’s budget crisis started in 2006, with the landmark Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act passed by the George W. Bush administration with almost UNANIMOUS consent by the Democrats.

    How did this “Accountability and Enhancement” cripple the Postal Service???

    First, know this: NO OTHER existing entity has ever been required by law to LOSE $5.6 Billion dollars of operating funds thus forcing cutbacks, loss of employees creating a chokehold under the pretense of future funding for retirement.

    What is going on here?

    The POSTAL SERVICE WAS REQUIRED TO PRE-FUND for 80 years ahead it’s retirement benefits. That’s right, all the money available had to get locked away and inaccessible.

    The act required the pre-funding of the health benefits of retirees, a requirement no other entity, public or private, has to make.


    Put a cat in a bag, tie off the opening, throw the bag in the river. The cat will drown - right?
    Well this cat has been holding its breath for over a decade!

    4. As if this was not deadly enough - Democratic President Barack Obama continued and accelerated the assault on USPS workers. In 2011, under the pretext of reducing the federal budget deficit, the Obama administration outlined a plan to restructure the Retiree Health Benefit Fund and “refund” $6.8 Billion from the fund to the federal government.

    Obama nominated a Republican board of governors, and the management pushed through severe restructuring. During his term, over 3,700 post offices were shut down and over 150,000 career employee positions were cut.

    Now get this:


    Corruption? Cronyism?

    Notice carefully the clever wording of this official pronouncement:
    On July 27, newly appointed Postmaster General Louis DeJoy declared: “The Postal Service is in a financially unsustainable position, stemming from substantial declines in mail volume, and a broken business model.”


    Did you catch the wording: “We are currently unable to balance our costs with available funding sources…”??

    Now you know why the funding sources are UNavailable.

    The current outrage against the USPS is only brought to light as SOLELY the work of the Trump Administration.
    Everything Trump is trying to do has ...wait for it ...wait for it...BIPARTISAN SUPPORT.
    The so-called opposition is smoke and mirrors.
    The USPS Board of Directors has been PACKED with --ready? UPS cronies! (United Parcel Service). This took place by appointments by the President APPROVED by the Senate.

    Big Donors showering the Republican Party with lavish cash donations resulted in these appointments. No doubt about it.
    MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT: USPS is headed by former Wall Street and corporate executives, whose collective millions are derived from decades of corporate raiding and financial speculation, ramping up corporate profits at the expense of the working class.

    Every single one of these predatory Banker Vampires and all of the current members received overwhelming BIPARTISAN support in the Senate which demonstrates that regardless of their pretensions, BOTH Democrats and Republicans are united in their assault against postal workers and the social rights of the working class.


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  • Terry

    Finding a "neutral" point of view on Democrat and Republican corruption isn't all that easy to find.
    The Socialist website has its own ax to grind, of course, but sticking with the flow of legislation and getting the head count of ACTUAL support for laws and changes gutting our Postal Service was available there all alone.

    To understand something you have to know not just the truth, but the whole truth and nothing but. Please correct any wrongly stated facts.

  • Terry
  • minimus

    Thanks for your informative expose

  • SadElder

    It seems everyone in government is only out for what they can get and the public be damned. Pork barrel politics, back door deals and downright fraud. This postal thing is just a tip of the mess. Thanks for assembling all the details.

  • Terry

    Folks older than I am (not many of those around!) have always told me it's been like this from the beginning. I suppose corruption is corruption. But is it just me who never noticed before?
    As an ExJW my interest in keeping up with things political at arm's length is conditioned. We were always instructed to see things a a set-pattern, like water running down hill, fulfilling prophecy.
    Instead, it's human nature.
    The Governing Body is a separate set of corrupt people who (possibly) believe they are instruments of greatness.
    Self-delusion or simple dishonesty? The results are the same - aren't they?

  • TheWonderofYou

    And JW are overloading the postal workers with letters with propaganda in times of crisis. "Gods kingdom will sonn solve all problems after all" and give us more postal workers too. So one could say the postal workers are the real evangelisers of today in the USA, they are distributing JW letters by snail mail though, yet they deserve a better loan from the watchtower and a better fate in general.

  • road to nowhere
    road to nowhere

    At least my letters carry the full 55c postage.

    Mail is actually an area where the government should step in. It is even in the constitution

    Bet pelosi franks all her mail.

  • Terry

    I've never understood how any citizen could complain about postage being too high.
    It's always seemed a terrific bargain to me when you consider exactly what is involved in taking something from your location to another location and hand delivering it.

  • TheWonderofYou

    Why are they not coming up with a new org stamp?

    Watchtower Radio Station WBBR Stamp

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