SIMPLE FACTS
- The US Post office moves 450 million pieces of mail every day. That is over 13 billion pieces of mail each month.
- The total votes cast in a presidential election are 125 million. If every vote in the United States was cast by that would be less than 2% of monthly mail volume. (Ballots are mailed mostly on same day, even though each state may be different, but are returned through several weeks prior to the election.
- Under NO circumstances, will every vote case be sent through the mail. A generous estimate would be 1/2 of all votes cast.
- The US Postal service has run substantial deficits every year for more than ten years and lost over $8 billion in last fiscal year.
- 1st class mail volumes have decreased over 25% in last nine years. Trump appointed an executive to right size the Post Office expenses.
- 14,000 mail boxes were removed since 2009 for reasons explained by President Obama in 2009.
- Current financial shortfalls are not expected to impact operations until next year (after election.)
- Congress has repeatedly blocked efforts to address financial challenges (see below.)
- Democrats lie about everything.
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The Post Office is an independent agency, managed by a board of directors, but subject to congressional control. There is a long history of attempted cost-savings measures, by Post Office executives, which eventually get blocked by lawmakers in Congress. Classic.
Example 1: Whenever the Post Office tries to close rural office locations (an effort with potential cost-savings of $500 million/year), congressmen object. "If you want to watch a Congressman flip out, suggest closing a rural post office in his district," they say.
Example 2: In 2013, the agency tried to save $2 billion by adjusting its delivery schedule, yet Congress continued to mandate six-day service.
Example 3: The Post Office cannot increase prices on letters and junk mail more than the rate of inflation, because of a law passed by Congress. Even the Post Office has complained about this one, saying, "Most of the Postal Service’s business is subject to a rigid price cap unlike anything faced by private companies."
Example 4: In 2006, Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which requires the Post Office to pay billions every year for future retiree health benefits (not pensions), something no other agency does.
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