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1. Eighty-eight of the Postal Service's so-called "losses" are because of a congressional mandate that it self-fund it's pension that no business or other govt entity has to carry.
2. The postal service isn't a business, it's a public good. Libraries don't turn a profit. https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1291958339212107777
2. The postal service isn't a business, it's a public good. Libraries don't turn a profit. https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1291958339212107777
People view the Postal Service favorably because until we got a new Postmaster General the U.S. Postal Service was ranked one of the most efficient postal services in the world.
You knew if you mailed a letter it would get where it was going.
You knew if you mailed a letter it would get where it was going.
The Postal Service became an essential lifeline for many people during stay at home orders. But for lots of people even pre-covid-19 it already was. People get medication through the mail.
There's a REASON why early in the pandemic people rushed out to buy stamps to "save the postal service."
The real question is why isn't the govt giving us the thing we overwhelmingly agree we want? https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/14/834336341/hoping-to-save-the-postal-service-people-rush-to-buy-stamps
The real question is why isn't the govt giving us the thing we overwhelmingly agree we want? https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/14/834336341/hoping-to-save-the-postal-service-people-rush-to-buy-stamps
Was I the only one who stayed awake in civics class when I was told over and over again that government's responsibility is to the will of the people?
PSA: My tweet is a media criticism. This is a bananas frame that fails the supposed tenets of journalism and civil society.
The administration is undermining an efficient, necessary*, & popular service , and the take is "American's still like it even though it's unprofitable?"
The administration is undermining an efficient, necessary*, & popular service , and the take is "American's still like it even though it's unprofitable?"
*necessary because the private mail services are very much on record that they cannot provide the full suite of services USPS provides and definitely not at their pricing. They are not going bring mail out to villages in the Bush for example, or rural areas out West.
dammit Eighty Eight PERCENT, 88 % 
