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No you are not. The PO handles over four hundred million pieces of mail PER day. The amount, even if every voter used the mail and every voter mailed it on the

No you are not. The PO handles over four hundred million pieces of mail PER day. The amount, even if every voter used the mail and every voter mailed it on the same day, would not overload their system. Heck it won't even reach sorting facilities all at the same time and some will lag over three days All you have to remember about this story is, Democrats have promised to bail out the pension system of the Post Office and so the union representing them has thrown their support behind all DNC candidates. You do realize that the big unspoken promise with an all Democrat Washington is they are to shore up ALL public employee pension systems which would make the debt that even Trump and the pandemic ran up look like pocket change. America is on its way to be fleeced and the irrationals are lining up because they stopped thinking long ago when hate took over

mindslight 6y ago
Explicitly funding defined-benefit pension obligations is more like the reckoning from fleecing that took place long ago. If you philosophically agree with the 2006 mandate that USPS prefund its pension, then you should accept that USPS needs increased funding to implement it. With regards to fleecing in general, both parties are in on the game (see: all that newly printed money propping up the stock market, for a less partisan example). But at least one of these parties isn't trying to actively undermine the stability of the country by helping a pandemic spread unchecked or fueling race riots. Like it or not, the Democratic Party has become the conservative option.
- missedthecue 6y ago
  The prefunding period ended in 2016. It is not too blame for current money losing word.
  - mindslight 6y ago
    I don't know how that goal has actually progressed - governmental deadlines are often pushed and there are plenty of ways to technically meet the deadline by taking on other debt. The comment I was responding to was talking about increasing funding as "bailing out" the pensions, so they at least think the pension is still a problem. As far as the USPS costing money to run in current world conditions. First it is a public service, of course it costs money. Second, since its rates are set by congress, congress could easily fix the problem by changing the rates.

mindslight 6y ago

Explicitly funding defined-benefit pension obligations is more like the reckoning from fleecing that took place long ago. If you philosophically agree with the 2006 mandate that USPS prefund its pension, then you should accept that USPS needs increased funding to implement it. With regards to fleecing in general, both parties are in on the game (see: all that newly printed money propping up the stock market, for a less partisan example). But at least one of these parties isn't trying to actively undermine the stability of the country by helping a pandemic spread unchecked or fueling race riots. Like it or not, the Democratic Party has become the conservative option.

missedthecue 6y ago
The prefunding period ended in 2016. It is not too blame for current money losing word.
- mindslight 6y ago
  I don't know how that goal has actually progressed - governmental deadlines are often pushed and there are plenty of ways to technically meet the deadline by taking on other debt. The comment I was responding to was talking about increasing funding as "bailing out" the pensions, so they at least think the pension is still a problem. As far as the USPS costing money to run in current world conditions. First it is a public service, of course it costs money. Second, since its rates are set by congress, congress could easily fix the problem by changing the rates.