Above is a route of The Pony Express. Recently, the United States Postal Service came under attack by the Tea Party stating it should be privatized. They lied about the relationship between private carriers and the USPS. I remind, the FedEx boxes went outside the US Post Offices during Bush #43. There is nothing less patriotic than believing disbanding any US Post Office is okay. It isn't. There was a record number of Post Offices CLOSED during Bush/Cheney and supposedly there was no economic slow down to require such a thing. We all know the US Economy was buoyed during the Bush/Cheney years by federal spending and increase in the national debt, but, the US Postal Service is self-sustaining.
The FexEx drop off boxes should be removed from the grounds of the USPS. It is disrespect to the people that work for the US Post Offices all over this country. A slap in the face, if you will. I don't like them on government property.
It was also during the Bush / Cheney years the "Forever Stamp" was first issues. I am confident the largest purchaser of ‘cheap postage’ was corporations. If the USPS is facing financial short falls the "Forever Stamp" should be disbanded and never again produced. It has delivered exactly what was intended, cheap postage for corporations and short falls to the US Postal Service for supplying faithful service in spite of rising prices of that service.
President Obama needs to speak to the United Postal Workers and find out the best way to preserve jobs while improving any service they provide and enhance their bottom line. He should be doing this now and not in 2012. The US Postal Workers need their President and they need him now.
Additionally, the US Postal Service also brings UPS and FedEx to distant addresses. I know because I spent the summer of 2010 on Eastern Lake Ontario where there was ONLY letter and package delivery. I frequently was sent documents in the mail. If they needed to be expedited, the only way to do that was to send it US Overnight or Express Mail. Why? Because it was less expensive than sending it FedEx and UPS Ground because the US Postal Service would deliver it anyway. There were no FedEx or UPS Ground trucks with routes where I was, but, there were US Postal Trucks. There were no FedEx or UPS Ground offices where I was, there was however a local post office with Saturday hours and a 'drop slot' open with extended hours even though the window might be closed.
Don't tell me about MY Post Office. I know about MY Post Office because that is ALL I USE no matter where I am and have shipping to conduct. Everything goes USPS or it doesn't go.
President Obama has a real opportunity to work with the United Postal Workers to SAVE JOBS and keep the mail delivery going even if by Pony Express. He needs to speak to his plans for returning jobs to the USA. He needs to speak to the fact he needs a House and Senate ready to act in returning jobs and how that is best accomplished. He needs to actively push for jobs at every turn in his current administration while his cabinet does the same. "Be out there and be heard." Let the citizens of the USA be reassured about the kind of nation they can expect and how the national debt is going to be paid down with increased REVENUES from a 'lean and mean' federal system that taxes those best to pay while enjoying the benefits of the great democracy. For without the USA, the wealthy would never be where they are today.
The US Postal Service survived an anthrax attack after September 11, 2001 only to be destroyed by Plutocrats?
President Obama is more than capable of saving jobs by stopping the draconian practices imposed on the US Postal Service by past administrations. He needs to now.
U.S. Postal Service faces financial crisis, seeks to back out of union contracts (click title to entry - thank you)
Published: Saturday, August 13, 2011, 8:00 AM
By Ursula Zerilli
The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS — Postal workers may face serious job challenges nationwide as the U.S. Postal Service seeks congressional action to allow it to withdraw from federal heath and retirement plans and cut its workforce by 20 percent to avoid financial doom within weeks.The USPS troubles have already affected local post offices — which employ about 20,000 people in Michigan — this summer.
Residents in Jamestown Township are making a case to save their local office as 60 Michigan offices — among 3,700 nationwide — are on a “review list” to be closed depending on traffic and space utilization….
