Blame Trump for USPS problems?

The Federal General Accounting Office, (GAO) has been reporting problems with the USPS almost ten years. The link below lists the reports the GAO has issued since 2009.

For those who are interested in the post office's chronically bad performance and "unsustainable" situation, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has produced a long list of studies on where the problems come from and how they might be addressed. The short version is that Congress has blocked all sorts of serious reforms to an operation that has seen a 33 percent decline in mail volume since 2006.

https://www.gao.gov/key_issues/us_postal_service_financial_viability/issue_summary#t=1 

Gene363 wrote:

When - I ask you WHEN - will people stop being SO mean to Trump?

Brewha wrote:

Looks like the dems tried to rectify that in 2013....
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr2690 

But it didn't get a vote .... in the Republican controlled Congress.

victor809 wrote:

And rightly so. That was the bill where Dems wanted the USPS to be a small bank and offer "non-postal" financial services such as credit, loans, savings account, check cashing, etc.

Sounds like a good idea. /sarcasm

It was also a counter-bill to the one the Repubs proposed, so it's not R's were sitting around doing nothing.

Stogie1020 wrote:

Love the lefties ignoring the 50/50 split board that signs off on all these decisions......ignoring the mismanagement of USPS and the problem of its retirement system. Gotta love government benefited people deciding contracts with union members.

ZRX1200 wrote:

"Don't mind the facts" should have been the slogan for the DNC...

Victor, I was referring to the Issa plan. The Dems rubbed out "innovate" in a masturbatory rush to get something out in front of Issa because they wanted to show action and generate public awareness of their desired bill inclusions (labor issues, Saturday delivery, etc.). As usual, it was reckless and overly broad. Sounds familiar.

It failed because both sides could not reach a consensus before the end of the legislative term, so the action expired.

Stogie1020 wrote:

That would imply that the plan before that, the Cummings 2013 plan, was the one you say offered "lending" services.
I looked it up. It would have allowed the Post office to provide check cashing services, but no "credit, loans, savings account"

I'm not sure check cashing is a terrible thing for the post office to offer. That used to be something people could get done at grocery stores when buying their groceries. I would have agreed with you if the bill had provided for any lending or credit type services, but check cashing? In an environment where it's more and more difficult for people who don't have bank accounts, that seems like a good service.

victor809 wrote:

Check cashing was but one of the supposed additional services. ATMs, Internet service, etc. were all others. I am sure the federal government would be great at those things.

Having said that, Your argument appears to have migrated from "Republicans are the reasons the USPS is failing" to "Maybe the USPS should cash your checks"...

Stogie1020 wrote:

And rightly so. That was the bill where Dems wanted the USPS to be a small bank and offer "non-postal" financial services such as credit, loans, savings account, check cashing, etc.

It was also a counter-bill to the one the Repubs proposed, so it's not R's were sitting around doing nothing.

Selective history is just that, Victor. BOTH parties have introduced bills to try to reform the USPS and BOTH parties have prevented such bills form moving forward. It's disingenuous to suggest one party has been the hold up when you know both parties are equally responsible.

Stogie1020 wrote:

Additionally, a review of the literature surrounding the legislation clearly indicates motivation toward services other than simply "check cashing"

https://naps.org/files/galleries/NAPS_Review_of_Cummings_Postal_Reform_Legislation-0002.pdf 


https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44603.pdf 

https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/cummings-praises-ig-proposal-for-post-offices-to-expand-financial-services 

(4) For purposes of this title, the term nonpostal services means services and products other than postal services as defined in section 102(5), including—
(A) check-cashing services;
(B) new technology and media services;
(C) warehousing and logistics;
(D) facility leasing; and
(E) public internet access services.

If the Post is really a 'Service ' instead of a 'business' why do we have to buy stamps and stuff..?? :-k

DrafterX wrote:

everybody craps on the USPS, but it is an essential government service specified in the Constitution, which gives Congress the power to set the parameters of the operation and build the roads needed...

guess who UPS, FedEx, and other for-profit courier services hand stuff over to, for the last leg if a delivery is too costly to complete for their "profit" models? who will step up and take mail/packages the last mile out to the boonies if anti-USPSers have their way and defund the USPS?

lotsa cons like to live in the deep rural areas, away from the unwashed masses of poor people...the USPS is their lifeline...

even CBid BOTL "endorse" the USPS since we, as a group, have chosen the USPS Tracking # as our confirmation standard bomb delivery service...

delta1 wrote: