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My @USPS explainer thread:
Handles 47% world’s mail
Ships ~150 billion 
/yr
Delivers more in 16 days than UPS+FedEx ship combined in a yr
500,000 career employees
31,000 locations
You can send a from Key West 
Utqiagvik AK for less than the cost of a candy bar
Handles 47% world’s mailShips ~150 billion /yrDelivers more in 16 days than UPS+FedEx ship combined in a yr500,000 career employees31,000 locationsYou can send a
from Key West Utqiagvik AK for less than the cost of a candy bar
No surprise then that Americans rank the post office maybe the most popular arm of government. A 2018 Pew poll found 88% of Americans have a positive view of @USPS.
Try to find something else in our government 88% of Americans support.
Try to find something else in our government 88% of Americans support.
The post office birthed a 2nd American revolution. USPS precipitated road building & allowed people to fan out across the land. Postal contracts sustained transcontinental 
. It was the post that got the govt to invest in aviation & birth commercial 
.
https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library-files/2015/rarc-wp-12-012_0.pdf
. It was the post that got the govt to invest in aviation & birth commercial .https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library-files/2015/rarc-wp-12-012_0.pdf
The post has been an agent of upward social mobility. When the US bureaucracy finally desegregated, African Americans joined USPS & by the 1920s made up 15-30% of postal employees. @USPS has been one of the foremost incubators of the black middle class.
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/research-articles/the-history-and-experience-of-african-americans-in-america%E2%80%99s-postal-service
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/research-articles/the-history-and-experience-of-african-americans-in-america%E2%80%99s-postal-service
Most Americans don’t know that @USPS receives effectively *no* support from the federal budget.
Forcing USPS to prefund its health care benefits at least *50 years in advance* accounts for almost all its losses since 2006. That's why USPS is in the red. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-postal-service-is-operating-at-a-profit/2018/04/26/1300cfa6-48b2-11e8-8082-105a446d19b8_story.html
Forcing USPS to prefund its health care benefits at least *50 years in advance* accounts for almost all its losses since 2006. That's why USPS is in the red. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-postal-service-is-operating-at-a-profit/2018/04/26/1300cfa6-48b2-11e8-8082-105a446d19b8_story.html
The gop has been sabotaging USPS for decades. The 2006 law was designed to! The House voted 309-106 to repeal but Mcconnell is blocking it.
@USPS will die wo/ immediate help & ending prefunding.
This thread is from my @monthly essay which you should read!
#SaveThePostOffice https://twitter.com/billpascrell/status/1115319444413276167
@USPS will die wo/ immediate help & ending prefunding.
This thread is from my @monthly essay which you should read!
#SaveThePostOffice https://twitter.com/billpascrell/status/1115319444413276167
