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[granddi]

from NBC News

The issue stems from a 2006 law that required the Postal Service to create a $72 billion fund that would pay for its employees' retirement health benefits for more than 50 years into the future. This is not required by any other federal agency.

Makes one wonder have our congress people can make such as mess of things. 

[shoekitty]

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@monicakm wrote:

@shoekitty 

Were these QVC orders? That's called taking the scenic route.

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Shoekitty said.  No these weren't.  But my qvc orders take 10-12 days depending. If I need something sooner with QVC I up shipping to 2 day which takes about 5

[Itsjustme4]

@Marp thanks for sharing these little known facts.  Sometimes people find it so easy to criticize or have a snap judgement of the USPS.  An additional little known fact is that the belly of every commercial plane is loaded with mail, which offsets the cost of tickets for every flyer.  Without that, tickets would be unaffordable for most.  

[Itsjustme4]

@Trailrun23   FYI, the USPS receives no tax dollars.   It relies on the revenue it generates from the sale of stamps  and services.  

[granddi]

Can google search but

First, on April 9, President Joe Biden’s administration threw its support behind funneling more tax dollars to fund the agency’s new next generation mail delivery fleet.

Second, the Postal Service acknowledged on April 2 that it has accepted $8.64 billion of taxpayer funds to offset some of its losses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Both steps seem to reflect the reality that the USPS cannot make it on its own without taxpayer support.

In an April 9 request to Congress, Biden sought $600 million for electric vehicles and charging infrastructure for 18 federal agencies.

The request specified that funds would be used by the General Services Administration “for other agencies and for United States Postal Service charging infrastructure.”

In testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Feb. 24, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy conceded that only 10 percent of the initial next generation delivery vehicles the USPS is ordering will be electric powered.

One of the reasons, he said, was the high cost of building charging equipment at postal installations.

Noting that the Biden administration has pledged to move the entire federal vehicle fleet to electric power, some of DeJoy’s congressional critics have complained the USPS is not moving rapidly toward an all-electric mail delivery fleet

[Susan Louise]

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@Squirrels Are Trash wrote:

I wonder why Biden doesn't push the Board of Governors to get DeJoy out. He's destroying USPS by choking the major sort facilities.

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@Squirrels Are Trash 

Sadly, nothing can be done til after the elections. Biden has no control over what happens to DeJoy...it's other areas/branches in the gov that have the control. He should have been removed as soon as he started having automated mailing machines destroyed before the last elections  - 2020 - to intentionally slow the mail.

I have no doubt there will be more attempts to slow the mail further before November.

I don't want to say anymore because it's not a subject to discuss here.

HTH explain some things though