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The administration absolutely wants to privatize the USPS, see page 68: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Government-Reform-and-Reorg-Plan.p
by eightysixfour 7y ago
The administration absolutely wants to privatize the USPS, see page 68: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Government-Reform-and-Reorg-Plan.pdf https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Govern...
Part of the plan includes a transition to a model "that delivers mail fewer days per week and to more central locations (not door delivery) [which] would operate
at substantially lower costs."
The plan notes "USPS already has over $100 billion in unfunded liabilities, a substantial
capital investment backlog, has posted losses for over a decade, and has no clear path to profitability
without reform."
Except the primary reason the USPS has posted losses for over a decade is that, in 2006, Congress passed a law requiring the USPS to pre-fund retiree health benefits (supported by both sides of the aisle I should add) unlike any other Government agency or private industry competitor.
It really isn't hard to understand, the USPS is not playing by a fair set of rules and is losing as a result.
- cm523 7y agoSidebar to this, it seems interesting the Whitehouse uses Wordpress. Shouldn't it use something more secure like Plone?