Snow96
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Scroll back. I posted a link to the bill and the language.
House passed bill has 10 billion for general use, and 15 billion for the post office inspector general.
What does the inspector general do? Investigate. They don’t deliver the mail.
Snow96
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How many employee’s designated to the post office inspector general is boots on the ground moving mail around? Or are they more an investigative arm of the post office?
When did they start delivering packages for a loss?
They don’t receive tax dollars, they depend on stamp sales.
LucyLou
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Why the hell make this thread within minutes of hearing it on TV with the infantile demand of libs explaining it to you.
Take those few minutes and look up the bill and see what’s in it yourself, for Pete’s sake.
Then, come here and debate the merits or otherwise of the bill.
C’mon, man.
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Snow96
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It’s the way the postal commission works. They raise stamp prices creating a “profit” that is put in the bank, knowing that eventually costs to deliver will exceed the price charged and the “proffit” in the bank will be used up by the next time a postal rate increase is made.
It looks like Biden did stuff up his teleprompter reading after all. He said, " We will choose facts over fiction."
He was supposed to say, “We choose our facts from fiction.”
DougBH
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I thought they chose truth over facts.
It has been an issue for at least 20 years. Creating a crusade against mail-in ballots 2 months before an election during a highly contagious pandemic smells of desperation.
Postal Service Net Income/Loss By Year
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2019 - $8.8 billion loss
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2018 - $3.9 billion loss
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2017 - $2.7 billion loss
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2016 - $5.6 billion loss
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2015 - $5.1 billion loss
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2014 - $5.5 billion loss
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2013 - $5 billion loss
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2012 - $15.9 billion loss
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2011 - $5.1 billion loss
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2010 - $8.5 billion loss
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2009 - $3.8 billion loss
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2008 - $2.8 billion loss
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2007 - $5.1 billion loss
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2006 - $900 million surplus
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2005 - $1.4 billion surplus
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2004 - $3.1 billion surplus
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2003 - $3.9 billion surplus
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2002 - $676 million loss
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2001 - $1.7 billion loss
They didn’t even spend that much investigating Trump for impeachment
Snow96
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Yet the bill as passed by the house designates 15 billion to the investigative arm of the post office and only 10 billion to help deliver the mail. Something wrong with that.
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Guilds
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The losses were mostly due to this:
Under the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006, the USPS is required to pay $5.4 billion to $5.8 billion annually, through 2016, to pay for future retiree health benefits.
“We must pay today for benefits that will not be paid out until some future date,” the Postal Service said. “Other federal agencies and most private sector companies use a ‘pay-as-you-go’ system, by which the entity pays premiums as they are billed … The funding requirement, as it currently stands, contributes significantly to postal losses.”
Remove that requirement (that no other org or company does) and teir balance sheet looks quote good.
Considering, the Post Office is not a for profit org, that is actually quite good, considering the services it provides.
conan
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I don’t think you’re in position to tell him.
conan
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It was libs old Queen that said postal service need 26 billion dollars with a B to make sure ballots gets delivered in timely fashion.
DougBH
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Nope. It was the Democrats who started encouraging people to en masse use mail in ballots two months before an election. You know, go to work, then to the grocery store, and then hide in your room because you’re afraid to cast a vote in person.
You don’t make this sort of change right before the election.
And if you do, and it requires extra costs, the states that are doing it need to come up with the money.
The method of voting is a state issue and responsibility.
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Wrong. It is the deaths of 180,000 Americans that is now encouraging the GOP to send out mail-in ballot instructions to people who don’t want to die for their vote.
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DougBH
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Absentee ballots are fine and not what has changed at all. Indeed, since the average age of corona virus deaths is now around 78, this would not even be a new issue in Texas since you can use a mail in at age 65 or greater.
If nothing has changed, then Dems need to stop complaining.
Guilds
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I know you are not in a position to tell me what I can post.
conan
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Ether way you’re in no position to tell OT whether he understands voter suppression…nor was there a need for that insult.
Guilds
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And you are in a position to tell me how to post?
Also, I had no idea what post you were referring to…since you rarely use the quote function. Had to go back and look…the post you referred to was a dozen or so posts above…and FTR, I did not tell him he did not understand, I said I do not think he understands. It was my opinion, not an insult. Good lord man…
Here is an idea…just ignore my posts, since you do not like or approve of them.
