"The USPS has the legal authority to request $460 million from Congress annually to cover the costs of rural service. The USPS has not requested those funds since FY 1982. When adjusted for inflation, the USPS has foregone a total of $25 billion."
https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library-files/2020/RISC-WP-20-003.pdf

You don't "save the post office" by closing them, cutting their hours, understaffing them, relocating them, selling historic buildings, slowing the mail, and raising rates. That's how you kill it.

USPS Is Preparing for Peak Season, But Carriers Are Needed

Here's what Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said about how the USPS is preparing for the holiday shipping season

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As a part owner of the US Postal Service, I’d remind the PMG that he works for us, the American people — the Ultimate Stakeholder — and we shouldn’t be told to "fall in line" with a plan we had no part in creating. via @GovExec

As Pressure Ramps Up Against USPS Reforms, DeJoy Asks Stakeholders to Fall in Line

The Postal Service is facing pushback on its plans to raise rates, shrink the workforce and consolidate mail processing.

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NALC's Rolando: "The interest of letter carriers must be the principle concern in the design of any new Sort and Delivery Centers." We must be "involved upfront as partners ... not just informed and tolerated and consulted after key decisions are made.”

Postal unions demand USPS ramp up hiring to address understaffing | Federal News Network

The National Association of Letter Carriers and the American Postal Workers Union say long-term understaffing is taking a toll on employee morale.

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The battle between @USPS and @TheSOC (a coalition of labor unions) over SOC's request to see the contract with Amazon is heating up. SOC makes a good case, but it's very unlikely the @PostalRegulator will grant access. https://www.prc.gov/docs/122/122427/SOCSuppSubmn_MC2021-115_CP2021-117.pdf
https://www.prc.gov/docs/122/122467/USPS%20Response%20to%20SOC%20Supp%20Submn.pdf

Another @PostalRegulator Advisory Opinion begins, this one about the USPS proposal to change the Critical Entry Time for certain categories of periodicals — another element of DeJoy's Delivering for America plan.
https://www.prc.gov/docs/122/122464/N2022-2%20Pre-Filing%20Conference%20Notice.pdf

Letter Carriers’ Rolando spells out Amazon threat to postal workers

Letter Carriers’ Rolando spells out Amazon threat to postal workers

CHICAGO - Organizing Amazon against its ever-expanding reach and the radical right extremist threat to democracy are ...

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