{"id":5821,"date":"2011-09-10T00:11:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T07:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5821"},"modified":"2011-09-10T00:11:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T07:11:13","slug":"republicans-made-them-go-postal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/10\/republicans-made-them-go-postal\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Made Them Go Postal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going postal has been a standing joke about the USPS for years, and few organizations evoke less sympathy.  Currently the Post Office is undergoing severe financial hardship and may well go bankrupt.  Like most, I assumed that was because the Internet had reduces demand for postal service, and was quite surprised to learn that has little to do with it.  USPS is in trouble, because Republicans passed a law in 2006 that sabotaged the USPS.  No wonder they\u2019re going postal over there.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"10usps\"The White House will include a financial rescue plan for the U.S. Postal Service as part of a broader $1.5 trillion deficit reduction package due to Congress in the coming weeks, it said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

In advance of those recommendations, the Obama administration is asking lawmakers to give the Postal Service a 90-day extension to pay billons of dollars in mandatory annual retirement payments that are due at the end of its fiscal year Sept. 30<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If approved, a delay would buy time for Congress, the White House and postal officials to draft a package of reforms for the cash-strapped delivery service, whose leader warned again Tuesday that it is teetering on the brink of financial collapse and likely to go broke by fall 2012.<\/p>\n

"I’m operating right now with a week’s worth of cash," Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe warned senators Tuesday. The Postal Service’s weekly costs total about $1 billion, he said\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <CBS<\/a>><\/p>\n

Of course, CBS did not include the cause of the problem.  <\/font>Sam Seder fills in the details how Republicans sabotaged the USPS to force the post office out of business and bust the union with Allison Kilkenny on Countdown<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n