Through Rain, Sleet, and Snow The Mail Must Go Through, So Why Is Congress Trying To Destroy The USP

[NHLabor]

NH NALC Member Bill Brickley talks about the harsh NH winter and the problems facing the USPS.


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As Letter Carriers put their health and safety at risk each day in this especially brutal winter we can take solace in the fact we have enabled the Postal Service to continue its financial turnaround. 2015 Fiscal Year Quarter 1 reports released Friday confirmed what all Letter Carriers know our business is booming . All types of letter mail continue to grow and parcel delivery is skyrocketing allowing the USPS to make a $1.1 Billion operating profit just this quarter. This will be the third consecutive year with a sizeable operational profit.

As Letter Carriers walk house to house in blustery winds on treacherous snow and ice to deliver America its mail many in Congress sit in their warm offices saying they have to reform or dismantle the worlds best Postal Service. They don’t consider Clerks and Mail Handlers driving in snowstorms through the middle of the night to move the mail. Their anti government ideology blinds them as they ignore the facts. Those people could not do a Letter Carriers job for a day especially in this hell of a winter. As a news commentator stated this week ” the only vehicles on the road were Plows, Police and Postal Trucks”

They want to sell off the USPS as there is profit to be made by the wealthy in their climate controlled boardrooms. Anti government zealots use Fed Ex and UPS as examples of what the USPS should become. They fail to mention both Fed Ex and UPS have increased prices 5-10% this year and still charge fuel surcharges even though gasoline prices have plummeted.

While politicians are cashing their campaign contributions from Fed Ex and UPS they also seem to disregard the fact that the Postal Service delivers to every address in America every day. Those private companies often drop off their unprofitable and difficult deliveries at the nearby post office to have a USPS Letter Carrier deliver the last mile.

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. I am amazed that this is getting NO attention in Congress. And I've written them.

[liberal N proud]

2. "They want to sell off the USPS as there is profit to be made by the wealthy..."

This is the underlying reason they are destroying the Postal Service.

Privatize to profit is the goal of the conservatives.

[fredamae]

3. Money-That

humungous amount of "Retirement Funding" Requirement that IS causing them to go bankrupt-that the GOP slipped into a bill-at the last minute-before MOST of the lawmakers even Knew About Before they cast their vote in 2006

There have been many, many calls for congress to repeal that stipulation...and no matter Which party Has been in the majority...they ignore our calls. It doesn't help that the guy heading the USPS wants the demise of this service also.
It is one of-if not the Largest Unions still left.

But I suspect "trickling Up" the Billions amassed since the law was passed almost 9 years ago...is the real goal. Wall Street Wants That POT O'Gold real, Real bad.
As I understand, anyway.