Top Democrats say postmaster general acknowledged new policies that workers say are delaying mail

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2. "we will focus immediately on efficiency" -- really?

Mail industry experts said the documents — a slide show and talking points about new mail handling procedures — described a “sea change” in postal policy, re-envisioning an institution older than the nation itself as a for-profit arm of the government. One memo cited U.S. Steel, a onetime industry titan that was slow to adapt to market changes, to illustrate what is at stake.

“This is framing the U.S. Postal Service, a 245-year-old government agency, and comparing it to its competitors that could conceivably go bankrupt,” said Philip Rubio, a professor of history at North Carolina A&T State University and a former postal worker. “Comparing it to U.S. Steel says exactly that ‘We are a business, not service.’ That’s troubling.”

There it is -- a service that is not privatized and is not for profit is being treated as though it is a business that should be producing profit for the government rather than providing the vital services it always has to the citizen. smh