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Showing Original Post only (View all)Congress is being bribed to kill the Postal Service. Even though they do better than FedEx or UPS. [View all]
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/12/27/congress-is-being-bribed-to-kill-the-postal-service-even-though-they-do-a-better-job-than-fedex-or-ups/"You may have heard about UPS and FedEx f***ing up during the Christmas rush. You may not have heard that the Postal Service did better than either of their competitors. You probably did not hear that they covered for UPS and FedEx, delivering thousands upon thousands of packages that the much-ballyhooed overnight delivery companies couldnt handle. And the USPS accomplished this feat in spite of being put at a massive competitive disadvantage by Congress, back in 2006.
That disadvantage?They imposed a regulation so burdensome as to to destroy the agency: a 55-billion-dollar-a-year pension pre-payment requirement on the USPS that NONE of their competitors have to pay. Hell, no other agency or company in the USA has to pay it. And the Congress imposed this ridiculous tax upon the USPS after being bribed to do so by the likes of UPS. Bribed? Yes, bribed. Calling them campaign contributions is a nice fiction, but we are calling spades by their rightful names here.
For example: co-sponsor Susan Collins got $22,160.00 from UPS, just in 2006. Joe Lieberman is an even cheaper lay: $5,000.00 from FedEx in 2006. And then they passed the post-office-killing bill by a voice vote, which allows legislators to avoid going on the official record. Not just whores, but cowardly whores.
Of course, the House is on the take, too: lets look at just one of the sponsors:
From 2001 through 2010 Shuster received $29,500 from Fed-Ex, $6,000 from Koch Industries PAC, and $36,500 from UPS. In the 2011-2012 election cycle, according to OpenSecrets.org, Fed-Ex has given Shuster $7,500. UPS has given $ 5,000.
All of these mutts want to privatize the postal service. And who would take over after privatization? Why, shucky darn, what a coinkeedink, it would be UPS and FedEx. We would pay more and get less, as our elected representatives laugh all the way to their Swiss bank accounts.
Realize this: UPS and FedEx suck so hard, they have to use the Postal Service to deliver a huge number of items every day. They pay a pittance for this service, and pocket the profits. And act like they deserve credit for the deliveries. Bull-f***ing-s***. The Post Office deserves credit for bailing out their incompetent and inefficient private competitors.
Bitching about the USPS is a time-honored tradition, and this writer does his share. But the private-sector alternatives cost more and stink worse. And the foulest stench of all comes from Capitol Hill, where those greedy motherf***ers are lining their pockets and trying to screw us even worse than we already have been."
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Congress is being bribed to kill the Postal Service. Even though they do better than FedEx or UPS. [View all]
riqster
Dec 2013
OP
I don't hear any reports about the postal service scrambling to deliver late Christmas packages
liberal N proud
Dec 2013
#1
Good one to use. I just don't hear many complaints in my area. It's mostly wingnuts who say it here.
freshwest
Dec 2013
#32
Unfortunately they could. They already got the ruling back in 1969 or 1970.
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2013
#71
The USPS got all my xmas packages there a day before they said they would this year.
cags
Dec 2013
#25
If only one of these three services survives I prefer it be the US Postal Service.
GoneFishin
Dec 2013
#43
Seems fair to me. But then, UPS isn't giving me tens of thousands of dollars in bribes.
riqster
Dec 2013
#54
These same "bribes" are what is ruining this country by taking away any semblance of Representative
Dustlawyer
Dec 2013
#50
USPS Flat Rate Priority shipping. Free franking. Best things ever for personal and small business.
haele
Dec 2013
#52
K&R. USPS regularly delivers for UPS/FedEx in areas that the others deem "unprofitable".
El_Johns
Dec 2013
#86
USPS should offer encrypted privacy rights protected email, as well as mobile internet/phone service
grahamhgreen
Dec 2013
#90