However,
“It was the White House that intervened in March, nixing a bipartisan plan to provide $13 billion to the Postal Service. And administration officials have made it clear that they will not sign off on any financial support — either in the form of a loan or direct funding — unless the Postal Service agrees to rate increases, labor concessions and other changes that would shrink the agency’s footprint, potentially saving money and benefiting private competitors like FedEx and UPS.”
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Now, the fight over the future of the Postal Service has spilled onto the campaign trail, increasingly freighted by deeply held disagreements about labor rights, the role of government versus private enterprise in providing basic services, and voting access.”
Now, being used against voting.
Always been a battle, but never so malicious, mean spirited and frankly in American.
So, there was time, and now we have what was, in my opinion, always part of the plan....upset the election....have reasons, etc.
This from the spring
David Williams, a member of the USPS Board of Governors, told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee last March that he could “think of no way” that the task force’s central recommendation — rolling back the ability of postal unions to collectively bargain for compensation — would address the agency’s financial problems.
White House dusts off USPS reform plan to save $97B in 11 years | Federal News Network
“The administration released that proposal in June 2018 as part of a larger government reorganization plan, but received bipartisan pushback from Congress less than a week later.”