“Give No Quarter”

You Knew This Was Coming! Are they playing the Degüello for the Post Office?
 

He did everything he could to kill it? What? The post office. The Republicans want to get their greedy little hand on the mail. I just had a package from Amazon that was shipped by USPS, and it has been delayed. It was supposed to have been delivered Friday and now it is Tuesday, it was shipped the same day that they got the order so it is not the vendor who delayed it.

Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses
Trump feuded with the mail agency in his first term. Privatizing it could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains.
The Washington Post
By Jacob Bogage, Jacqueline Alemany and Jeff Stein
December 14, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains and push hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of the government.

Trump has discussed his desire to overhaul the Postal Service at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary and the co-chair of his presidential transition, the people said. Earlier this month, Trump also convened a group of transition officials to ask for their views on privatizing the agency, one of the people said.

The Republicans hate the post office! Why?

But as congressional Republicans and others in Trump’s orbit have clamored in recent weeks for federal cost-cutting, the Postal Service has emerged as a prominent target. People who will work on the “Department of Government Efficiency,” a nongovernmental panel led by tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, have also held preliminary conversations about major changes to the Postal Service, said two other people familiar with the matter, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to reflect private talks.

To put it all in perspective…  "This is all poppycock" You want to know why the Post Office keeps losing money? PolitiFact reports that…

The 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act required the Postal Service to pre-fund future retiree health benefits, not pensions. The law put a financial strain on the service, which has defaulted on some of the statutorily prescribed payments.

And it goes on to say,

The health benefit requirement

The 2006 law also established a fund for Postal Service retiree health benefits. It required prepayment of those benefits according to a 50-year schedule, starting with 10 years of statutorily prescribed payments of roughly $5 billion from 2007 to 2017.

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Regardless, Partenheimer [a spokesman for the Postal Service] told us that "the pre-funding requirement included in the 2006 law is a major reason for our financial situation, along with an outdated business model."

So now they bootstrapped the Post Office and are complaining the losses!

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Then vengeance is mine saith Trump…

Exclusive: Trump may cancel US Postal Service electric mail truck contract, sources say
Reuters
By Jarrett Renshaw and Alexandra Ulmer
December 6, 2024

Donald Trump's transition team is considering canceling the U.S. Postal Service's contracts to electrify its delivery fleet, as part of a broader suite of executive orders targeting electric vehicles, according to three sources familiar with the plans.

The move, which could be unveiled in the early days of Trump’s administration that begins on Jan. 20, is in line with Trump's campaign promises to roll back President Joe Biden’s efforts to decarbonize U.S. transportation to fight climate change – an agenda Trump has said is unnecessary and potentially damaging to the economy.

Reuters has previously reported that Trump is planning to kill a $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric vehicle purchases, and plans to roll back Biden's stricter fuel-efficiency standards.

The sources told Reuters that Trump’s transition team is now reviewing how it can unwind the postal service's multibillion-dollar contracts, including with Oshkosh (OSK.N), opens new tab and Ford (F.N), opens new tab, for tens of thousands of battery-driven delivery trucks and charging stations.

Anything to spike the Democrats even if it destroys the planet.

The Constitution does not mandate a postal service but it does allow Congress to create and regulate a postal system and it gives Congress broad power over postal matters.