To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Keep Our Postal Service Great
Senate bill 1789 is no good for the future of the U. S. Postal Service. It calls for the end of 6 day and door to door delivery. It does nothing to rectify the overpayments and prefunding, which are the cause of the current problems. It aims to close post offices and eliminates thousands of jobs. Shut this bill down now, once and for all. S. 1853 and H.R. 3591 are bills that ARE the solution the the Postal Service's financial crisis and only these 2 bills should be considered.
Why is this important?
The last couple of years have had a great number of buzzards circling the Postal Service, trying to pick it apart and completely obliterate it. They are doing this for one reason and one reason only. That is so they can claim it for themselves and rip off the American public. Congress, under the Bush administration caused the Postal Service great problems by enacting a law requiring it to prefund future retiree health benefits through the year 2075 and doing it all within a 10 year period. That means that the Postal Service has to put 5.5 Billion dollars into the Treasury on Sept. 1 every year. It starts its fiscal year $5-1/2billion in the red or $55Billion by 2916, That is absurd and no other company or agency in America is mandated to do anything even close to that. The Postal Service has also overpaid into the Civil Service and Federal Employee Health funds over the past 49+ years due to an accounting error to the tune of around $75billion. This has absolutely been documented by the GAO and the OIG. Congress can fix the Postal Service by suspending the future payments and returning at least a portion of the money it is owed. Nothing else needs to be done, except maybe to get rid of about 60% of the management staff which is way overbloated with friends and relatives of higher ups. Congress needs to know America wants the same, only better, Postal Service it has come to expect for the last thousand years. SAVE AMERICA'S POSTAL SERVICE. Thank you.