Posted on 04/11/2020 2:31:53 AM PDT by Libloather
The U.S. Postal Service will run out of operational funds by the end of September unless Congress intervenes, Postmaster General Megan Brennan told members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in a Thursday video conference.
Mail volume has dramatically slowed during the coronavirus crisis due to widespread business closures, and the USPS is bracing for a steep drop in revenue. But its postal workers remain on the front lines of the crisis, handling prescription drug shipments, lab test materials and medical supplies that are crucial to efforts to contain the virus. Mail-in voting has also allowed the democratic process to survive in the era of social distancing.
The Postal Service, which employs 650,000 people, is asking for $75 billion in aid from the government, and, according to The New York Times, another $14 billion to pay off debt related to a retirement benefits program - a whopping $89 billion total.
Yet because the Postal Service technically operates under the executive branch, and President Donald Trump has displayed a bizarre hostility to it since taking office, it seems likely that the agency will receive some pushback.
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The footprint in our families hometown is all but gone now with just a sister and her husband remaining there..... married at 18, no children, they built their own house and never moved, both in their 70’s now and still in the house they built although they’ve remodeled a few times.
Maybe that might be a solution in the future for me. An account just for bills and just enough $$$ in it to cover them.
I took a tour of a Postal sorting facility...there were letters that fell under the machine that had been there at least a decade. Fraud and waste abound among those deadbeats I witnessed.
Thank you.
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