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2025-02-24 Government Corruption
Democrats Panic over President Trump's Talk of Reforming USPS
[Breitbart] House Oversight Committee Democrats are panicking over comments President Donald Trump made Friday about reforming the U.S. Postal Service.

While Trump has not established a specific plan, he criticized the Postal Service and talked about how it might be improved upon during the swearing in of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

“We want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money, and we’re thinking about doing that,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “And it will be a form of a merger, but it’ll remain the Postal Service, and I think it’ll operate a lot better than it has been over the years.

“It’s been just a tremendous loser for this country, tremendous amounts of money they’ve lost,” he added. “And we think we can do something that will be very good and keep it a very similar way, but whether it’s a merger or just using some of the very talented people that we have elsewhere so it doesn’t lose so much.”

Following his remarks, Democrat members of the House Oversight Committee sent a letter to Trump urging him to abandon any plans to reform USPS, the Hill reported.

“Your reported efforts to dismantle the Postal Service as an independent agency would directly undermine the affordability and reliability of the U.S. postal system,” ranking member Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and the panel’s other members wrote in the letter. “We urge you to abandon immediately any plans that would either privatize the Postal Service or undermine the independence of the Postal Service.”

The letter also followed reporting from the Washington Post that the 45th and 47th president is weighing firing USPS’s board and absorbing USPS into the Department of Commerce.

Connolly countered in the letter that such a change would require congressional cooperation, “which Congress would not provide.”

While USPS is not funded by Congress and earns revenue from its services, it is mandated to reach every single mailbox in the United States, “something private companies have no obligation to do,” according to the report.

“Congress prescribed a clear and critical mandate for the Postal Service: to deliver efficient, reliable, and universal service to all Americans,” Connolly continued. “Your reported plans for the Postal Service would put at risk the timely, affordable delivery of life-saving medications, mail-in ballots, important financial documents, and letters from loved ones, especially in rural or less profitable areas that the private sector refuses to service.”

Connolly further argued that reforming USPS would not put the independent agency “on a path of fiscal sustainability,” but could instead “subject the Postal Service and the entire mail network to political interference, shifting priorities of Administrations, and skyrocketing prices.”

Trump’s comment and the Democrats’ letter also come after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, who was appointed during Trump’s first administration, announced earlier this week that he is stepping down.

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-24 02:03|| || Front Page|| [11150 views ]  Top

#1 USPS has a Woolworth’s vibe to it.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-24 04:46||   2025-02-24 04:46|| Front Page Top

#2 

Every Wed., when I open my Mailbox and see the stack of Bulk mail.

I also see businesses getting a huge discount to load up my mailbox up with fireplace starter.

As I understand, less than 1 on 100 bulk mail letters result in a customer purchase
Posted by NN2N1 2025-02-24 06:02||   2025-02-24 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 The USPS missed an opportunity to securely manage email through verification and lineage delivery of email to customers. I believe businesses, email providers and customers would have appreciated the end result. I have 5000+ unread emails and about 20 of them that require my attention.
Posted by Airandee 2025-02-24 06:48||   2025-02-24 06:48|| Front Page Top

#4 On a related typical USPS POS for service note:
We just found out a USPS Certified Letter, we send to Atlanta (about 140 miles from here) on Feb.13th.

Still has not arrived.

Where is it?
USPS.com Tracking site data shows it never left the Post Office we registered it and sent it from, 11 days ago.
Posted by NN2N1 2025-02-24 07:04||   2025-02-24 07:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Massive jobs program since about 1970.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-24 07:14||   2025-02-24 07:14|| Front Page Top

#6 
Some data on the USPS .

1 example of the 8+ list,
It has NOT shown a profit since 2006
Posted by NN2N1 2025-02-24 08:03||   2025-02-24 08:03|| Front Page Top

#7 “We want to have a post office that works well and doesn’t lose massive amounts of money, and we’re thinking about doing that,”

Sorry to break everyone's bubble. Art.I, Section 8 of the Constitution, powers of Congress -

To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

It said nothing about profitable. It was and is intended to tie the country together. Whether you send a letter across town or to Barrow AK, its the same price. When they moved the appointment of post masters and higher personnel from your congresscritters you lost your most effective office of appeal in dealing with it. Of course, they were happy to pass it off.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-24 08:18||   2025-02-24 08:18|| Front Page Top

#8 When I request USPS priority overnight for an address 14 miles away, the parcel goes 14 miles to the delivery city hub then 64 miles to Dallas for distribution back to the 14 mile hub and delivery address. Takes two days.

FedEx runs out of the local Dollar General storefront where overnight is tomorrow morning.
Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-24 09:08||   2025-02-24 09:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Payback to the USPS union for their participation in the 2020 mail in ballot fraud.
Posted by EMS Artifact  2025-02-24 09:38||   2025-02-24 09:38|| Front Page Top

#10 P2K as I read it, the power to establish does not mandate an establishment.
Posted by mossomo 2025-02-24 12:52||   2025-02-24 12:52|| Front Page Top

#11 To try and drive Direct TV customers to online payments, AT&T sends out my monthly bill by mail, and when it arrives, the due date is approximately two weeks later. I always put my payment in the mail, at the post office, the next morning. Unfailingly, AT&T sends out a late payment reminder the day before the payment is due, and the bank notes my check is cleared by AT&T 15-20 days after the date I mailed it. Much of that is the USPS sloth!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-02-24 15:20||   2025-02-24 15:20|| Front Page Top

#12 I detest the "on-line" payment effort.
Posted by Besoeker 2025-02-24 15:38||   2025-02-24 15:38|| Front Page Top

#13 @ #2 load up my mailbox up with fireplace starter. Stuff doesn't burn worth a damn.
Posted by KBK 2025-02-24 18:41||   2025-02-24 18:41|| Front Page Top

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