Send one to Palestine, Joe -- and not in the form of a missile, bomb, or WMD.
"Obama vows rescue plan for Postal Service; Retirement bills come due on Sept. 30; Saturday mail may be eliminated" September 07, 2011|By Ed O’Keefe, Washington Post
WASHINGTON - The White House said yesterday it will include a financial rescue plan for the US Postal Service in a broader $1.5 trillion deficit reduction package for the cash-strapped delivery service, whose leader warned again yesterday that it is teetering on the brink of financial collapse and likely to go broke within a year.
“I’m operating right now with a week’s worth of cash,’’ Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe warned senators. The Postal Service’s weekly costs total about $1 billion, he said....
So is the rest of America if they are lucky! Where's their bailout?
Hell, it's their f***ing tax money bailing out everyone else!
The Postal Service is a self-funding entity drawing revenues from the sale of stamps and shipments, but its workers draw benefits from the federal government’s health care, retirement, and workers’ compensation funds.
Office of Personnel Management director John Berry, who oversees the health care and retirement funds, said Congress should carefully study a Postal Service proposal to withdraw from the federal health care and retirement funds to save money.
Postal “employees and retirees are well-served by the existing health benefits program and retirement system,’’ he said.
In addition to structural reforms, Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, suggested that USPS should mount a national advertising campaign promoting the value of printed mail.
Yeah, waste more money! That has to be one of the dumbest ideas I've seen yet.
“You cannot get money by text message,’’ McCaskill said. “I really think that there is a longing out there right now, especially in these uncertain times, for some of the things that have provided stability over the years.’’
I don't even want to get started. These people down there are pathetic.
Donahoe said a campaign is in the works. Aides said it will debut for the holiday shopping season.
Think I'll send it UPS this year.
Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Independent who chaired yesterday’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the issue, voiced his support, suggesting, “We should be writing more passionate letters to those we love.’’
And it better have an aid check in it.
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