It has now come to light that the US postal service is underfinanced and that the Republican Party under D. Trump planned do weaken it still further.
Do you still think that the US postal service is the best in the world - like all US things are always the best things in the world?
It has not come to light that the USPS is underfinanced. They have enough money to last to the end of 2021.
see article from the NY Times below. If it's in the Times, then is must be true, right?
This is article is especially for those rabid Trump-haters who want to bash Trump for crippling or blocking voters from being able to mail in their ballots in time for the November 3rd election.
I am convinced it is the naive, ignorant, and gullible voter who thinks Trump has something to do with slowing down the mail.
This is article is from the NY Times and, at the end, it makes sure it permits a diversity of messages to be published. I am surprised the NY TImes published an opinion piece that flies in the face of an important meme and talking point of the Democrats.
The article goes against what anti-Trump political pundits and generally dumb people are saying about the so-called "postal crisis". When the Dems get fixated on a phony "scandal" they just won't let go. Like my dog with a bone.
I Was a Postal Service Regulator for 18 Years. Don’t Panic.
Goldway, Ruth Y. New York Times (Online), New York: New York Times Company. Aug 18, 2020.
The service is perfectly capable of handling election mail.
President Trump has threatened to withhold funds from the United States Postal Service. The new postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, has embarked on cost-cutting measures to eliminate overtime and remove sorting machines. These actions have created worries that Americans, reluctant to walk into voting booths because of Covid-19, will be unable to vote by mail this year.
I served as a regulator of the Postal Service for nearly 18 years under three presidents and I urge everyone to be calm. Don’t fall prey to the alarmists on both sides of this debate. The Postal Service is not incapacitated. It is still fully capable of delivering the mail. The focus of our collective concerns should be on how the Postal Service can improve the speed of delivery for election mail.
First, the president is wrong about the Postal Service’s finances. While the agency indeed has financial problems, as a result of a huge increase in packages being sent through the system and
a credit line through the CARES Act, it has access to about $25 billion in cash. Its own forecasts predict that it will have enough money to operate into 2021.
The Postal Service’s shaky financial situation has to do in large part with the drop in first-class mail (typically used for letters), about 30 percent less than a decade ago. But the service's expensive, overbuilt infrastructure can absorb the addition of more mail in 2020 — including election mail that is mailed to and sent back by every voter in every state.
The new postmaster general’s management team still includes many knowledgeable and seasoned executives. And the Postal Service has over 500,000 employees who are remarkably honest, dedicated and used to working through emergencies: hurricanes, snow storms, social unrest and pandemics.