The already-ailing United States Postal Service is being financially crippled by the coronavirus pandemic, its top official says, but the Trump administration has shown no signs it will ask for emergency financial aid as it has for big businesses. https://t.co/9VYgw5CuaF
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) April 13, 2020
White House rejects bailout for U.S. Postal Service battered by coronavirus https://t.co/3OYrP3a36Q
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 11, 2020
The Post Office survived 245 years, a revolution, an empire striking back, a civil war, a world war, a depression, a 2nd world war, a cold war and all the rest. If it dies now, it'll be one more piece of America destroyed by Trump — likely because he's afraid of mail-in voting.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 13, 2020
Just to see how far we’ve fallen: the Post Office Act of 1792 didn’t establish a profit-driven business—it promised government support for the circulation of information (esp. newspapers) and respect for the personal privacy of anyone sending or receiving letters. https://t.co/oUvmz71SdC
— Joyce E. Chaplin (@JoyceChaplin1) April 11, 2020
“The postal service is not a federal agency. It does not cost taxpayers a dollar. It loses money only because Congress mandates that it do so. What it is is a miracle of high technology and human touch. It's what binds us together as a country.”https://t.co/gj9UQnSukk
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 11, 2020
Every story about travails of USPS needs to include this fact:
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) April 11, 2020
That it was *intentionally* lumbered w different-from-all-other-orgs oblig to pre-pay all future pensions. No “normal” company would be profitable this way https://t.co/4Xwnk3Uupx
Need to keep pointing this out https://t.co/HVVOqrCWmM
Your regular reminder that the Postal Service was running a profit and would be running a profit if the Bush admin and Congress hadn’t required it, in 2006, to permanently fund its retirement 50 years in advance, a requirement no other business has ever met.
— Jason Stanley (@jasonintrator) April 11, 2020
Try putting a 55cent stamp on your Fed Ex letter, see where it gets you. The Postal Service is not designed make Billions. It’s a “service” – a public service. Public libraries could also just sell books and make lots of money. The ourpose is not to make tax revenue. https://t.co/22oeBgjrbk
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) April 12, 2020
A story I'v long wanted to write is that the particular hatred for the @USPS, one of our great American institutions & services, an institution mandated by the Constitution, is because its workforce is disproportionately black. I regret not getting it done https://t.co/LW3DYoqv4F
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) April 12, 2020
The problem is thinking that the "USPS" lost money. The President's appointees run the USPS. Congress (& the President) set the law that governs how USPS spends its money. They, on our behalf, created a postal service that isn't revenue neutral AND THAT's OK. https://t.co/zON1bZ2KRr
— GovTrack.🇺🇸 (@govtrack) April 12, 2020
Okay, I've been with USPS for several years now, so here's my big dumb #SaveThePostOffice thread. I don't know how many tweets it's gonna take for me to ramble through my thoughts, so stick with me. Or don't, whatever.
— Dingus J McGee, ESQ*, OBE* (@DingusJMcGee) April 10, 2020
Yes. Fix this unfair and bizarre requirement. https://t.co/0S2ynTayp8
— Annette Gordon-Reed (@agordonreed) April 13, 2020
Sad! 