Someone needs to introduce a bill called "Postal Union Reform Act of 2011" otherwise as known as

[True Blue Democrat]

removing Republican crapzola from the USPS by paying up front. The USPS has already paid $60 billion into the retirement package and the true reason they are constantly in debt because they have to pay up front.

A simple removal of the language requiring that the USPS pay up front for the retirement package needs to be enacted, signed into law.

Presto, USPS is close to the black.

Just insert it in a defense omnibus, and threaten to remove money from the defense unless this is simply corrected.

Republican's experiment and attempts to privatize USPS is over.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. A bill was introduced by a dem

to repeal this, and I cannot remember the number. Problem is... with the Boehner house, it will go nowhere. I intend to call my congress critter AGAIN... on this.

Now that Big Edie brought it out, perhaps it will be less hard to educate people on this

[glowing]

2. Agreed. Bush is still reeking havoc on the working person and the govt.. While we r at it, can we

ferret out the moles that have been buried in the beaurocracies within the govt. They are anti-govt asses who do their damnedest to make the govt look and feel incompetent.

[sethgrogen]

3. so there wouldn't be any guarantee it would be there?

[pinboy3niner]

4. Personally, I kinda like "Removing Republican Crapola from the USPS Act"

But that's just me. :)

[customerserviceguy]

5. How about leaving the USPS workers' pension and health funds alone

and just doubling the cost of sending junk mail? It might get a few mailers that I bought from ONCE several years ago to stop wasting the tiny amount of profit they made from one "on sale" item over and over again on sending me catalogs and other long-distance litter.

[pinboy3niner]

6. The notion that the problem is junk mail...

...or FedEx (a USPS contractor) or the internet is all part of the union-busting, privatization RW propaganda. They want us to believe that USPS simply can't compete in these modern times--despite its record of competing exceedingly well, thanks to the fine work of its UNION employees.

Without the onerous requirements imposed on the USPS in 2006, the USPS would have been in the black for the last four fiscal years.

The time for "leaving USPS workers' pension and health funds alone" was in 2006. That was a GOP set-up to put USPS in crisis and bring us to where we are now. Now is the time to undo the damage wrought.

[spedtr90]

7. Required to pre-fund next 75 years of pension costs - in 10 years.

"The federal government is requiring the Postal Service and its employees to pre-fund 75 years of health benefit obligations in 10 years for all current and future employees/retirees. No other federal agency and no private business are required by law to do this. At the same time, Congress is refusing to allow the Postal Service to access and use monies in two pension funds that are permanently and significantly overfunded to the tune of $81.5 billion."


http://www.nalc.org/PostalFacts/07162011-cook_post-star.html