#USPS Board of Governors

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By Annie Norman

The public learned last fall of one particularly controversial element of United States Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year plan for the U.S. Postal Service that would be rolling out soon. Essentially, the function of sorting and delivering mail would be consolidated into regional centers, leaving empty former sorting space in the back of post offices. No layoffs were announced.

At first glance, this sounds innocuous, but seasoned postal observers suspect that with less activity happening at smaller or rural post offices, they become vulnerable to a reduction in hours or closure. This leads to the kind of job losses that initially present as don’t worry, we’ll relocate you to the regional center but are experienced by postal workers as if I don’t commute two hours there and back each day or more, I lose my job.

In response, The Save the Post Office Coalition, which I coordinate, wrote to the Secretary of the USPS Board of Governors to ensure the board was made aware of emails from 160,000 postal customers across the country urging them to stop the disastrous elements of DeJoy’s plan before it’s too late.

Among the several thousands of personalized messages, we highlighted a handful in our note:

“The USPS provides a service to the public. It was never intended to be a profit-making business. I’m disappointed & ashamed at where politics seem to be taking us.”

— David B. (veteran) Seattle, Washington.

“As a former United States Postal Service employee and as someone who regularly uses the [USPS], I ask you to do something about DeJoy, who continues to degrade everything about the postal service — especially the service part of it.”

— Kristin F. in Cottonwood, Indiana.

“It is important for seniors like me to be able to count on a dependable means of getting medications without having a further drain on our resources.”

— Peter L. in Los Angeles, California.

“I believe that a well supported and functioning post office is a hallmark of a healthy, advanced nation. Stop DeJoy’s undemocratic plan now before it’s too late.”

— Janet M. in Downers Grove, Illinois.

“We senior citizens depend on USPS. Please help keep it viable.”

—Joanne L. in Akron, Ohio.

“Our postal service should be about serving us rather than serving businesses that give it money.”

— Douglas L. in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.

We have yet to hear a response or acknowledgement that the messages from the public were received, and DeJoy continues to make it clear that he doesn’t want anyone asking questions about his 10-year plan.

On the same day that USPS leadership received our coalition’s messages, the Postal Regulatory Commission issued a public inquiry order to DeJoy asking that USPS provide details on the sorting and delivery changes under his plan. In the order, the Commission said it “notes that stakeholders have expressed concerns regarding a lack of a forum to explore the impacts of these proposed changes.”

DeJoy responded with an objection to the Commission’s inquiry. On May 17, DeJoy delivered congressional testimony for the first time in nearly two years at a hearing of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations. Rep. Summer Lee asked him why USPS is objecting. In his response, DeJoy was openly hostile toward the postal regulator, accusing them of actively participating “in the destruction of [USPS].”

Just last month, DeJoy sat down with the press for a 90-minute interview where he once again doubled down with an adversarial attitude toward postal regulators who seek details for the public on his 10-year plan, calling the Commission’s inquiry “nonsense,” saying, “We don’t need to be babysat.”

On May 22, DeJoy delivered the keynote address at the 2023 National Postal Forum where he spoke at length touting his efforts to implement “dramatic changes” and increase the pace of his 10-year plan. The postmaster general told the audience that “dramatic changes must be done at a pace, and with a tenacity that is rarely seen.” However, these changes are a mystery to many, and for a public institution, this mystery is dangerous.

If the past is any guide, the effects of potential post office closings and reduced hours will be devastating, particularly to rural and Indigenous communities. The Save the Post Office Coalition organized a petition to the Postal Regulatory Commission and the USPS Office of Inspector General urging them to stop DeJoy’s “dramatic changes” and demand public input, and so far has received over 131,000 signatures from the public who regularly use the postal service.

The bottom line is that the public has a right to more transparency and input in the decision-making process at a public institution. This requires engagement with said public — which DeJoy is actively resisting. When you put a rich, white, private-sector executive who isn’t used to public accountability and cooperation in charge of a treasured public institution, such a clash might be inevitable. It’s plain DeJoy doesn’t have the temperament for public service.

Communities across the nation want dramatic change at the post office too, but that dramatic change is not to be secretive or a surprise; it must be a shift toward protecting and expanding the public footprint and services available at the post office to meet new needs and change with the times. The People’s Postal Agenda outlines a framework for an expanded USPS that includes things like postal banking, expanded nonbank financial services like bill payment and ATMs, WiFi in parking lots, and public electric vehicle charging.

We still remember former President Donald Trump’s plan to privatize the post office, right before he put his thumb on the scale to have his donor DeJoy appointed as postmaster general. We also remember DeJoy’s role in sowing public fear and uncertainty in the vote-by-mail process by slowing down the mail and then sending out mailers to voters that meeting their state’s deadline would not ensure their vote would arrive in time to be counted, causing him to be sued by the NAACP and Public Citizen, as well as secretaries of state.

There is nothing to suggest that DeJoy has abandoned the privatization vision of the people who got him the job. So it’s our job as citizens to make absolutely sure any upcoming “dramatic changes” to the post office don’t shrink and privatize the institution but protect and expand it for generations to come.

#us politics #news #truthout #2023 #republicans #donald trump #conservatives #louis dejoy #Annie Norman #op eds #united states postal service #Save the Post Office Coalition #USPS Board of Governors #Postal Regulatory Commission #House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations #us house of representatives #Rep. Summer Lee #2023 National Postal Forum #People’s Postal Agenda #vote by mail #mail in ballots #mail in voting

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A noticeable slowdown in mail delivery by the US Postal Service (USPS) is becoming a significant concern for democracy advocates, as millions of Americans will be voting by mail this year. There's growing worry about whether mail ballots will be counted in time — particularly in swing states like Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

NBC News reported that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy — a GOP donor who has been in his position since a Republican-controlled USPS Board of Governors put him there in 2020 — is being blamed for mail delays due to his 10-year restructuring of the USPS.

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More democrats than republicans vote by mail.

ATLANTA — More USPS Customers reached out to Channel 2 Action News about the ongoing mail issues.Customers claim there are issues at the new Atlanta Georgia Regional Processing and Distribution in Palmetto.

#USPS #Gop

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By Vishal Shankar, Revolving Door Project

Common Dreams

Nov. 18, 2023

President Biden has utterly failed to hold DeJoy to account for his internal attack on the US Postal Service.

In a time of historic distrust in government, the United States Postal Service has accomplished something extraordinary: it remains a universally beloved federal agency. Second only to the Parks Service in public favorability (a jaw-dropping 77% approval rating, per Gallup), USPS is arguably also the most frequently-interacted-with component of the federal government: packages and letters are delivered to Americans’ mailboxes six days per week. But these warm feelings – already under threat by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s continued destructive leadership – could quickly chill if the Postal Board of Governors has its way.

At least four times per year, the Board (the governing body that votes on DeJoy’s agenda and has the sole power to fire him) holds an open session meeting, its sole formal contact with the public. In recent years, these meetings have concluded with a well-attended public comment period, where in-person and virtual attendees have excoriated DeJoy for embracing a privatization-friendly agenda. Just this year alone, public commenters at Board meetings have decried the mail slow downs and price hikes, demanded changes to DeJoy’s gas-guzzling and union-busting fleet plan, raised serious concerns about transparency of DeJoy’s facility consolidation plans, and pushed DeJoy to expand community services offered at the post office.

The future of the people’s most treasured public institution depends on public participation and feedback

But when the Postal Board of Governors met this week for their final open session of the year, there was one major difference from its previous quarterly meetings: virtual and remote public comments were, without explanation, banned. This abrupt new barrier to public accessibility led the number of public commenters – which in recent meetings has been a double-digit tally – to drop to 4. The decline in attendance was also likely compounded by an unexplained shift in the meeting time: whereas past meetings have been held at 4:00pm ET, Tuesday’s session was held at noon – the middle of the workday.

The Board’s decision to not allow virtual comments at the November 14th meeting follows another alarming recent attempt to suppress public input. At the August 2023 meeting, each public commenter was allotted only 25 seconds to speak, in sharp contrast to the typical 3 minute time limit. And past meetings were not beacons of accountability, either. The Postal Governors never responded to any comments raised by the public, and the comment period itself was always excluded from the official publicly available USPS recording of the formal session.

But next year, the Postal Board’s accountability problem will get even worse. During Tuesday’s meeting, Postal Board Deputy Secretary Lucy Trout explained, starting next year, the Postal Board will only hear public comments once per year in November. In other words, though the next three Postal Board meetings (February, May, and August 2024) are ostensibly “public sessions,” members of the public will have no opportunity to inform the Postal Board about their concerns until a year from now.

And it’s not as if postal workers, customers, and public advocates don’t have anything pressing to alert the Board about. On the contrary, DeJoy has continued to advance a destructive agenda that includes:

Five successive postage rate increases, which have risked driving away business and failed to improve USPS financial standing, despite DeJoy’s promises.

A 10-year stealth privatization plan that is being advanced with zero opportunities for public input and would increase delivery times, slash 50,000 jobs through attrition, and cut operations at more than 200 post offices and sorting facilities, which could devastate rural and Indigenous communities.

A next-gen postal fleet contract with Oshkosh Defense that is nearly 40% gas-guzzler and 100% built with non-union scab labor. UAW workers from Oshkosh have regularly attended postal board meetings (including Tuesday’s) to call for an investigation into the company’s union avoidance scheme and for the Board to rebid a new, union-built contract.

Failure to protect USPS staff from a dangerous summer heatwave that killed one postal worker, even after members of Congress urged improvements to the USPS heat safety protection plan and letter carriers alleged their managers were routinely falsifying safety documents.

Refusal to support alternative revenue sources that could strengthen USPS, such as postal banking, grocery delivery, or electric vehicle charging stations.

President Biden has utterly failed to hold DeJoy to account for any of this, instead inviting him to White House stamp ceremonies and staying silent as the Postmaster General laughably reinvents himself as a “Biden ally” to credulous reporters. This is particularly egregious given the President’s power to nominate members of the Postal Board of Governors:

Biden has inexplicably failed to name replacements for two Trump-appointed Governors – including DeJoy-supporting Democrat Lee Moak – whose terms expired last December. This has allowed Moak and his Republican colleague William Zollars to stay on the board for nearly a full year (their holdover terms will expire on December 8, 2023) and continue occupying seats that Biden has been statutorily allowed to fill.

The Save The Post Office coalition has endorsed former Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence and postal expert Sarah Anderson – two strong critics of DeJoy’s leadership with decades of actual postal experience and policy expertise – for these positions. Biden has yet to indicate he will nominate anyone to these vacancies.

Though Biden has already nominated five of the Board’s nine governors (on paper, enough to fire DeJoy), at least two of his picks have been DeJoy backers: Democratic ex-GSA head Dan Tangherlini (who approved Trump’s lease of D.C.’s Old Post Office Building) and Republican Derek Kan (a former Mitch McConnell/Elaine Chao advisor). As I’ve written before, Biden’s choice to nominate Tangherlini and Kan (instead of two anti-Dejoy reformers) squandered a key opportunity to finally give the Board a pro-reform, anti-DeJoy majority.

The Postal Board’s restrictions on public comment are unacceptable. They must reverse course by allowing both in-person AND virtual public comments at ALL open sessions next year, and take further steps to improve accountability by responding to public comments and posting recorded comment sessions to the USPS website. Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration must publicly call out this shameful barrier to transparent government and fast-track filling the Moak and Zollars Postal Board seats with anti-DeJoy, pro-accountability reformers.

The future of the people’s most treasured public institution depends on public participation and feedback–that’s how public service works.

#usps #joe biden #louis dejoy #u.s. postal board

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The one year term extension of Trump appointees Donald Moak and William Zollars came to an end on December 8th. It’s essential that President Biden appoint strong, diverse, and reform-oriented candidates to replace them.

The Save the Post Office Coalition has called on President Biden to nominate former Representative Brenda Lawrence and policy expert Sarah Anderson to the USPS Board of Governors. These are two public servants who will bring critical perspectives and expertise to the USPS Board of Governors –- exactly when the postal service needs it the most.

Rep. Brenda Lawrence worked as a USPS employee for 30 years before she served in Congress, representing southeast Michigan, including parts of Detroit. As a member of Congress, she valiantly defended the postal service against privatization attempts, and was the only member of Congress who was a member of the American Postal Workers Union and the National Association of Letter Carriers. Sarah Anderson is a policy expert who has written extensively on USPS and economic and financial issues, comes from a family of letter carriers.

We deserve a strong, diverse, and reform-oriented Board of Governors to hold the Postmaster General to the true mission and public service goals of the USPS.

We also need leadership with enthusiasm towards building the Postal Service of the future, who will think creatively about opportunities to expand services that will bring in new revenue like postal banking and other products, instead of narrowly focusing on service cuts and price hikes.

Tell Biden to nominate Rep. Brenda Lawrence and Sarah Anderson to the USPS Board of Governors today by adding your name now.

GET RID OF LOUIS DEJOY!!!! HE'S DESTROYING THE USPS!!!

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This day in history

Monday (October 2), I'll be in Boise to host an event with VE Schwab. On October 7–8, I'm in Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest.

#10yrsago Asteroid named after Randall “XKCD” Munroe https://blog.xkcd.com/2013/09/30/asteroid-4942-munroe/

#10yrsago HOWTO make $200,000 off of the above-inflation USPS postage hike https://qz.com/128329/a-step-by-step-guide-to-profiting-off-the-3-cent-hike-on-us-postage-stamps

#10yrsago Talking about Ron Howard’s Haunted Mansion album with the Comedy on Vinyl podcast https://stolendress.com/comedyonvinyl/podcast_episodes/COV_278.mp3

#10yrsago The Big Lie: how polygraph companies convinced the US government to use pseudoscience on job applicants https://www.wired.com/story/inside-polygraph-job-screening-black-mirror/

#5yrsago California bans all-male corporate boards https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/30/business/california-requires-women-board-of-directors/index.html

#5yrsago The history of a Zorklike programming interpreter is a tale of language, art, code and literature http://www.emshort.com/ifmu/inform.html

#5yrsago Brazilian electoral upset possible as fascist loses ground to surging leftist https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/30/huge-protests-in-brazil-as-far-right-presidential-hopeful-jair-bolsonaro-returns-home

#5yrsago Chinese students, made to study Communism, are rising up for workers’ rights https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/world/asia/china-maoists-xi-protests.html

#5yrsago “Like Lord of the Flies”: working at the TSA really sucks https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2018/09/report-blasts-tsa-leadership-for-toxic-culture-blames-it-for-high-attrition-poor-morale/

#5yrsago Large scale psych study identifies “homo economicus” as the source of all evil in the world https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Frev0000111

#5yrsago Justin Trudeau’s NAFTA concessions include 20 year copyright extension https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2018/10/from-copyright-term-to-super-bowl-commercials-breaking-down-the-digital-nafta-deal/

#5yrsago All levels of UK government have been paralysed by Brexit https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-19/brexit-has-brought-britain-to-a-standstill#xj4y7vzkg

#5yrsago California’s Net Neutrality bill is now law https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/california-governor-signs-net-neutrality-rules-into-law/

#1yrago How Palantir will steal the NHS https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/01/the-palantir-will-see-you-now/#public-private-partnership

#pluralistic

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USPS Proposes Raising The Prices of First Class Stamps To 73 Cents

"I don’t know how I’m going to afford 73 cents for one stamp," a customer said.

— By Bill Hutchinson | April 10, 2024

If the U.S. Postal Service gets its way, the price of a first-class stamp will go up for the fourth time in less than two years.

The USPS is proposing hiking the cost of a first-class stamp to 73 cents, or roughly 7% on all forms of postage.

If approved, the plan, which was announced on Tuesday, will raise the price of metered 1-ounce letters to 69 cents, international ounce-size letters and postcards to $1.65 and domestic postcards to 56 cents.

The proposal has been sent to the independent Postal Regulatory Commission for final approval. If the commission signs off, the new prices will take effect in July.

Proposed Increases in Stamps! ABC News

The price-hike proposal comes after the USPS raised the cost of a first-class stamp to 68 cents from 66 cents on Jan. 21. Stamp prices rose twice in 2023.

In the past 20 years, the price of a first-class stamp has climbed about 84%.

"It's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous," New Yorker Jacqueline Pollen told ABC News as she exited a post office on the upper West Side of Manhattan. "I’m a senior on a fixed income. I cannot really afford stamps that much. I do have a lot of Forever stamps that I bought years ago and I’m using them up, but I don’t know how I’m going to afford 73 cents for one stamp."

Like millions of Americans, Pollen said she has cut back on mailing letters, even Christmas cards, saying, "I use E-cards and email. That's what I use now to save money."

But Manhattan resident Albert Quiles, who was going into the post office to purchase stamps, said he's resigned to paying the higher postal prices.

"I've got to deal with it. What else can you do? You've got to go with the flow, man. Times change," Quiles told ABC News. "There's nothing you can do. The government says this is what you've got to do. It's not like it's just me -- it's everybody. I don't feel bad about that."

Price of postage stamps may go up by 5 cents! If the plan is approved, the price hike would be the highest stamp increase ever. A USPS mail delivery vehicle is seen outside a post office, July 3, 2022, in Louisville, Ky. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The postage price jump is part of a 10-year "Delivering for America" plan launched in March 2021 to transform the USPS from a money-strapped organization to one that is self-sustaining and high-performing.

The USPS reported a $6.5 billion net loss in 2023 as revenue fell 0.4% to $78.2 billion and the use of first-class mail dropped to its lowest level since 1968, postal officials said.

In 2022, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy issued a warning for customers to expect "uncomfortable" increases in postage until the USPS gets on track to be self-sustaining.

"While our pricing decisions are ultimately made under the authority of the Board of Governors, in the near term, I will most likely be advocating for these increases," DeJoy said during a meeting with the USPS Board of Governors in 2022. "I believe we have been severely damaged by at least 10 years of a defective pricing model, which cannot be satisfied by one or two annual price increases, especially in this inflationary environment."

Despite the price hike in postage, a USPS survey done in 2023 showed the prices of stamps in the United States are still lower compared to 31 other countries it analyzed.

"The 2023 price of a standard domestic letter in the U.S. was nearly half the average price in our 31 sampled countries," according to the USPS Office of Inspector General report released in March.

#United States 🇺🇸 Postal Service (USPS) #Postal Service #Stamps’ Price Raising #United States 🇺🇸

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Only the USPS Board of Governors can stop Louis DeJoy

Peter , We are two years into Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10 year plan to privatize the United States Postal Service (USPS) and things are going about as terribly as you would expect. Recent reports show that the agency will have a net loss of $6.5 billion for this year, postal employees at the new sorting and delivery centers are being forced to use port-a-potties indefinitely, and on…

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Louis DeJoy is a disaster. The orange garbage fire that spent four years squatting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue put him in that job for one express purpose: to destroy the USPS, and we desperately need him OUT. I don't know why Biden is stalling on appointing people to the postal board of governors, but it's really fucking disappointing, to put it mildly.

#save the usps #louis dejoy is trash #what the fuck joe biden

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They're so hard to get rid of.

October 23, 2023

There are some life lessons that are always important to remember. One is if you leave food on the floor, cockroaches can infest your kitchen. But another is if you don't vote in elections, fascists can infest your government. And, once established, both kinds of destructive pests can be tough to eradicate.

The Poles are certainly trying. For eight years, the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) Party has ruled their nation. During which PiS steadily pushed Poland towards authoritarianism. But last week's parliamentary election, which saw the highest voter participation in over a hundred years (nearly 74%), turned PiS out of power in a bid to return the country to the liberal democracy it used to be.

But can Poland's new government reform a system where public broadcasting, the constitutional court, the judiciary in general, the central bank, the national prosecutor’s office and other state agencies have been packed with PiS loyalists? Says Wojciech Przybylski, head of Warsaw's Res Publica Foundation, “This is the really important question: How to unwind an illiberal democracy?”

It's also a problem here at home. In only four short years as president, Donald Trump managed to stuff the federal government full of MAGAfied, fascism-friendly appointees. And many are proving difficult to dislodge.

Charles Rettig, Trump’s head of the Internal Revenue Service, used tax audits to terrorize low-income earners, while shielding his corporate allies from paying their fair share. President Biden couldn't dump him until his term expired in November 2022.

Then there's Joseph Cuffari, who's still inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security. A report by the Democrats on the House Subcommittee on National Security charged Cuffari with:

a failure to report rampant sexual misconduct and harassment at DHS, and a failure to investigate and disclose to Congress missing Secret Service text messages from the January 6th insurrection.

Also, FBI Director Chris Wray, who engaged in hyper-surveilling Black Lives Matter, but ignored the mountain of evidence warning of a far-right attack on the Capitol in 2021.

And Louis DeJoy, head the US Postal Service, who's been actively sabotaging the agency's functionality. By law Biden can't remove him, and the USPS Board of Governors (for some reason) won't.

Add in the 234 radical-right federal judges (including three Supreme Court justices) with lifetime appointments Trump foisted on our legal system. Plus, the hundreds of extremist MAGAs more or less permanently entrenched in Congress. And we're sadly learning the hard lesson that once fascist vermin infiltrate government, there's practically no getting them out.

#fascisim #right wing extremism #trump appointees #polish elections

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The Inflation Reduction Act, which President Biden signed into law this week, includes a windfall for the United States Postal Service: $1.29 billion for the purchase of zero-emission delivery trucks, plus $1.71 billion for accompanying infrastructure, like charging ports, to support those vehicles.

Now, the question becomes: Will the USPS move forward with already announced plans to buy a fleet of gas-guzzling trucks?

Earlier this year, USPS announced that it would buy 165,000 trucks from the manufacturer Oshkosh Defense, and that 90% of those would be gas powered. Environmental activists and Democratic politicians were outraged. Sixteen states and two environmental groups filed lawsuits.

The agency has since recalibrated, announcing last month that it would bump the proportion of electric mail trucks up to 40% of the new fleet. But with the passage of the IRA, the USPS is running out of reasons to move forward with purchasing any gas-powered vehicles at all.

In 2021, the USPS conducted an environmental impact review that found that it would cost $2.3 billion more to purchase 100 percent electric vehicles than it would to purchase a fleet with just 10 percent electric vehicles. But the Environmental Protection Agency found that analysis to be flawed. As Adrian Martinez, senior attorney on Earthjustice’s Right to Zero campaign, told me last week, “That analysis was so garbled and unsubstantiated, that actually they could have worked out 100 percent [electric] even with existing amounts [of funding].” Still, he said, if we take the USPS’ review at face value, the $3 billion outlined in the IRA should be enough to bridge the gap.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy did not mention the new funding during his remarks at the USPS Board of Governors meeting last week, but he did say that the agency would “capitalize on any EV opportunities…as our operating strategy continues to evolve.”

Until the USPS formalizes a new contract with Oshkosh Defense, the manufacturer of the new trucks, the lawsuits filed by states and environmental groups will go on. “Until they vacate that decision, we’re gonna proceed with the litigation,” Martinez said. “We need greater assurances than via press release about what their intentions are.”

Kim Frum, senior public relations representative at USPS, said to me in an email, “We have been monitoring the interest of Congress in funding electrification and should funding be enacted we will assess the impact on our plans.”

No matter what happens, the IRA’s provision for the electrification of the postal fleet is a promising sign. “This funding further confirms that their kind of heavy bend towards gas guzzling trucks is just wrong,” Martinez said, “and there’s a net support for them going electric.”

#us politics #news #biden administration #president joe biden #inflation reduction act #usps #united states postal service #louis dejoy #fire dejoy #2022 #mother jones #Oshkosh Defense #environmental protection agency #Adrian Martinez #electric vehicles

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/us/politics/biden-usps-board-members.html

https://link.usps.com/2021/07/20/new-governors/

This is WHO the postal service employees that choose to punish the people with no delivery will serve, THEMSELVES instead of being Christ like by serving OTHERS.

Seems like a well thought out plan right down to the "dirty work" of carrying out "punishment" to the people as a whole.

As the GLOBALIST LEGION SWINE they knew the hand they were dealt and play it close to the vest as it were, thinking none is clever enough to know how to stack the deck much less able to count the cards in thier heads as they are dealt to each "party" member [pun INTENDED] player AND never figuring the "reflection" caught each of thier hands in motion while their "poker face" smugly held the cards?

Yesterday we mourned, today we "fight" fully armored of God with actions of being the VERY REFLECTION they did not account for, the STANDARD of CHRIST like CONDUCT.

Of course it hurts, and will hurt more with what OPEC just did but remember well that RESOURCEFULNESS is a WELL that NEVER runs dry and "if obedient will eat well" (paraphrased, 19) >>> Isaiah 1 >>> GIVEN the Lord Yeshua RENEWS  His MERCIES each day as well.

***CHOOSE THIS DAY WHOM YOU SHALL SERVE***

#christianity #bible #religion #faithoverfear #faithbased #endtimes #faith in jesus

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United States Postal Service

United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; otherwise called the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an autonomous organization of the presidential part of the United States central government liable for offering postal support in the United States, including its separate regions and related states. It is one of only a handful few government offices expressly approved by the United States Constitution.

The USPS follows its underlying foundations to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, when Benjamin Franklin was designated the principal postmaster general, he likewise served a comparable situation for the provinces of the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Post Office Department was made in 1792 with the section of the Postal Service Act. It was raised to a bureau level division in 1872, and was changed by the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 into the United States Postal Service as an autonomous agency. Since the mid 1980s, many direct expense endowments to the USPS (except for appropriations for costs related with impaired and abroad citizens) have been decreased or disposed of.

Current activities

The USPS works one of the biggest regular citizen vehicle armadas on the planet, with an expected 227,896 vehicles, most of which are the handily distinguished Chevrolet/Grumman LLV (long-life vehicle), and the fresher Ford/Utilimaster FFV (flex-fuel vehicle), initially likewise alluded to as the CRV (transporter course vehicle). Produced using 1987 to 1994 and with no cooling, no airbags, no electronically monitored slowing mechanisms, and lacking space for the enormous current volume of online business bundles, the Grumman armada finished its normal life expectancy in financial year 2017. The substitution cycle started in 2015, and models have been created by different bidders, yet because of deferrals as of May 2020, a last agreement for substitution trucks has not been awarded.

It is by topography and volume the globe's biggest postal framework, conveying 47% of the world's mail. For each penny expansion in the public normal cost of gas, the USPS spends an extra US$8 million every year to fuel its armada.

The Department of Defense and the USPS mutually work a postal framework to convey mail for the military; this is known as the Army Post Office (for Army and Air Force postal offices) and the Fleet Post Office (for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard postal offices).

Administration and association

The Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service sets strategy, methodology, and postal rates for administrations delivered. It has a comparable job to a corporate governing body. Of the eleven individuals from the Board, nine are named by the president and affirmed by the United States Senate. The nine designated individuals at that point select the United States postmaster general, who fills in as the board's 10th part, and who regulates the everyday exercises of the help as CEO. The ten-part board at that point assigns an appointee postmaster general, who goes about as head working official, to the 11th and final open seat.

The autonomous Postal Regulatory Commission (earlier the Postal Rate Commission) is likewise constrained by nominees of the president affirmed by the Senate. It supervises postal rates and related concerns, having the power to affirm or dismiss USPS recommendations.

As an administration organization, it has numerous extraordinary advantages, including sovereign resistance, famous area powers, forces to arrange postal settlements with outside countries, and a selective lawful option to convey top of the line and second rate class mail. Surely, in 2004, the U.S. High Court administered in a consistent choice "The Postal Service isn't dependent upon antitrust responsibility. In both structure and capacity, it's anything but a different antitrust individual from the United States yet is important for the Government, as isn't constrained by the antitrust laws, for example, the Sherman Antitrust Act. Unlike a state-possessed venture, the USPS comes up short on a straightforward proprietorship structure and isn't dependent upon standard guidelines and standards that apply to business substances. The USPS likewise needs business tact and control.

The U.S. High Court has additionally maintained the USPS's legal restraining infrastructure on admittance to letter boxes against a First Amendment the right to speak freely of discourse challenge; it in this manner stays unlawful in the U.S. for anybody, other than the workers and specialists of the USPS, to convey mailpieces to letter boxes stamped "U.S. Mail".

The Postal Service additionally has a Mailers' Technical Advisory Committee and nearby Postal Customer Councils, which are warning and basically include business clients.

USPS Email Service

There are different thoughts, for example, for USPS to make an email administration to serve general society and to carry it into the computerized age. The proposition is to help USPS return back to benefit, to save people in general from online wrongdoing and to help secure the climate by diminishing paper utilization.

Law implementation offices

Under the Mail Cover Program USPS photos the front and back of each piece of U.S. mail as a feature of the arranging cycle, empowering law authorization to get address data and pictures of the exterior of mail as a component of an examination without the requirement for a warrant.

Postal Inspection Service:

The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) is one of the most established law requirement organizations in the U.S. Established by Benjamin Franklin on August 7, 1775, its main goal is to secure the Postal Service, its representatives, and its clients from wrongdoing and shield the country's mail framework from criminal misuse.

Postal Inspectors authorize more than 200 government laws accommodating the security of mail in examinations of violations that may antagonistically influence or deceitfully utilize the U.S. Mail, the postal framework or postal representatives.

The USPIS has the ability to uphold the USPS restraining infrastructure by leading inquiry and seizure attacks on elements they suspect of sending non-critical mail through for the time being conveyance contenders. As per the American Enterprise Institute, a private traditionalist research organization, the USPIS struck Equifax workplaces in 1993 to find out if the mail they were sending through Federal Express was really "very earnest". It was tracked down that the mail was not, and Equifax was fined $30,000.

The PIS regulates the exercises of the Postal Police Force who watch and secure major postal offices in the United States.

Office of Inspector General:

The United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) was approved by law in 1996. Preceding the 1996 enactment, the Postal Inspection Service played out the obligations of the OIG. The controller general, who is autonomous of postal administration, is designated by and reports straightforwardly to the nine officially selected, Senate–affirmed individuals from the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service.

The basic role of the OIG is to forestall, recognize and report extortion, waste and program misuse, and advance effectiveness in the activities of the Postal Service. The OIG has "oversight" obligation regarding all exercises of the Postal Inspection Service.

Monetary administrations

Postal cash orders give a protected option in contrast to sending cash through the mail, and are accessible in any sum up to $1,000. Like a bank check, cash orders are cashable simply by the beneficiary. Not at all like an individual bank check, they are paid ahead of time and thusly can't be returned on account of lacking funds. Money orders are a declining business for the USPS, as organizations like PayPal, Venmo and others are offering electronic substitutions.

From 1911 to 1967, the Postal Service likewise worked the United States Postal Savings System, much the same as a reserve funds and credit relationship with the measure of the store restricted.

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Mail prices have gone up under DeJoy, and delivery has slowed down. DeJoy has cut postal worker staffing by over 30 million hours just this year, and dramatically reduced wages for two-thirds of rural mail carriers. Overworked, underpaid carriers are currently working through record-breaking heat waves, often in trucks that lack air conditioning. Multiple USPS workers have died in the past two years from heat related illness, including one in Texas this summer.

Local newspapers are hurting under DeJoy’s new policies. The USPS recently raised the costs of delivery for publications by one-third. The cost increases pose an existential threat to much of the local press. When government agencies have criticized such changes, DeJoy aggressively moved to shut down all criticism and oversight.

In order to save the USPS and retain access to our mail service, DeJoy must go!

To oust DeJoy, we must have a USPS Board of Governors who is willing to do just that and work towards saving one of our most beloved institutions. Only the USPS Board can fire DeJoy, and that’s exactly what they should do after his numerous failings, conflicts of interest, and destructive leadership.

As of December 8, 2022, there have been two members of the Postal Board of Governors, and DeJoy allies, on “holdover” years after their term expired, which means President Biden can nominate replacements. President Biden can appoint governors who will stand up to DeJoy’s destructive leadership and advocate strongly for expanding USPS services.

President Biden must make sure the next two nominations to the Postal Board of Governors are up to the task of firing the Postmaster General and understand that the USPS has always been, and should remain, a cherished public service.

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The recent evidence shows an attempt by the USPS to interrupt the people's right to vote. Let's discuss United States Election 2020 and USPS sabotage efforts. Introduction Postmaster-General Louis DeJoy As the election comes closer, and the decision has been made to proceed with the election despite the pandemic, people of America are now relying on voting by mail more than ever before. But the main concern for many relies on the United States Election 2020 and several sabotage efforts by USPS. The voters of the United States can vote from home if they wish to do so, given the proper reasons. For that, the election agency sends out ballot papers to the voter's address upon request. The USPS is a nationwide postal service that delivers ballot papers to all the registered voters. USPS is the most reliable mailing service across the United States, and it was also very affordable, enabling people of all socio-economic classes to utilize their service. On May 7th, it was announced that Louis DeJoy would be appointed as the Postmaster General. The USPS Board of Governors made this decision. Louis DeJoy is a businessman and long-term fundraiser for the Republicans. Which takes us to the next point. President Trump has been criticizing the voting by mail method, along with the decision to fund $25 million to the postal service and spend $3.5 billion to fund the election. Backed by the belief that in-person voting will earn him a higher number of votes, he is constantly pushing against the USPS and making obvious attempts to sabotage the election. Although the data shows that only twelve cases of fraud were found among millions of mailed votes, President Trump has been accusing the USPS of voter fraud. Most recently, last Thursday, he claimed to Fox Business interviewer Maria Bartiromo that the mailed-in ballots were a vehicle for fraud After Louis DeJoy was appointed as the Postmaster-General, he made some changes to USPS. And evidently, these changes were not exactly to serve the public interest but help the corporations. What changes were made in the USPS? USPS Sorting Machines Removed USPS has been running on a deficit for a long time, and last year's deficit alone was a surmounting amount of $8.8 billion. As of April, USPS reported a loss of $13 billion. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was struggling financially even despite working efficiently. The USPS processes about 450 million letters every day. This proves Trump’s accusation wrong that USPS will not be able to handle additional millions of registered voters who will request for the mail-in-ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic. So in an attempt to mitigate the financial deficit, Louis DeJoy the newly appointed postmaster-general made the following changes in the USPS. All high-speed sorting machines were removed due to being obsolete. The postal staff was no longer allowed to work over-time, they were instructed to leave the mails behind in the post office if the delivery trucks were delayed. Additionally, a lot of workers were laid off due to some reasons. The delivery cost was also increased temporarily.   How it hampers the election? Long before DeJoy took over the office, the USPS had already begun reaching out to the election administration agencies and regional mail coordinators, consulting with them to send out the ballots. By the looks of their preparation, this year's election will break all the records for handling mails. But, due to the recent changes that DeJoy made in the USPS, the effect was not calculated at all. Complaints were coming from all over the country for late delivery. Such a delay in delivery could be catastrophic for the upcoming election in November. As we all know, the votes will not be counted if they do not reach the vote counting centers within the allocated t

ime. Why are the changes hampering? USPS Inspector General Office Inserted Unusual Power The changes that were made to the USPS were an attempt to reduce the financial stress and deficits to allow continued operation. But what it did instead was inserting unusual power into a public service sector in the time of the election. Louis DeJoyis a major fundraiser for Trump's victory election campaign who raised $1.2 million. He is a close supporter of President Trump. This raises doubt about President Trump's influence over the election through the USPS. The opposition party Democrats are calling for emergency funds to help the USPS be fully equipped for the election period. And President Trump was precisely criticizing this fund that was initially allocated for the postal service. According to him, the financial incompetency of the USPS strips them from the right to receive this additional fund of $25 billion. Besides the direct effect on the USPS and voting process of the presidential election, the newly set changes and rules massively suppress millions of Americans' voting rights. Upon seeing the effects of the changes, two lawsuits were filed last Tuesday. One was led by Washington state. The lawsuit was joined by other states like Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Another lawsuit was brought up in Pennsylvania federal court. It was accompanied by California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Delaware, Maine, and North Carolina. After facing a massive backlash for making sudden changes right before the election, the changes were halted until the end of the election 2020. After facing the threat of multiple lawsuits, DeJoy announced on the same day that the changes would be halted until after the presidential election in the coming November. All the complaints and the lawmaker's letters have been taken into consideration, and the Office of the Inspector General -USPS is running an investigation to ensure no fraudulent activity takes place during the time of the election, and also the feasibility of DeJoy as the postmaster general. Despite the sudden tension around the mail-in-vote fiasco sparked by President Trump, Democrats have been requesting voters to vote by mail for months. It would be wise to stay at home and vote by mail during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Although the Republicans' opinion completely differs from this, and they are worried that voting by mail will bring in fraudulent votes into the ballot box, and that they are less likely to win if more people vote. But, we have to keep in mind that the number of affected people is increasing every day, and the United States is the country with the highest number of affected people, and every lawful citizen deserves to practice their right to vote. Votes by mail will ensure the voters' rights amidst this pandemic, so it is highly encouraged that the voters of America practice their rights as lawful citizens of the country. The selection of a president is an extremely important decision for a country and the people of the country. Each and every citizen participates in the decision through voting. Conclusion So far, we have been discussing United States Election 2020 and the Sabotage efforts by USPS. However, this largely depends on the voters whether the USPS will sabotage the election or not. As the citizens are currently facing the mismanagement and array of wrong decisions that the current president is taking, it is only through voting that the citizens can influence and impact the significant decision of selecting the president of the country. To continue to read series 2, You can click here- US Election 2020: Cracking the Sabotage efforts (TRUMP) - Part 2.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; otherwise called the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an autonomous organization of the presidential part of the United States central government liable for offering postal support in the United States, including its separate regions and related states. It is one of only a handful few government offices expressly approved by the United States Constitution.

The USPS follows its underlying foundations to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, when Benjamin Franklin was designated the principal postmaster general, he likewise served a comparable situation for the provinces of the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Post Office Department was made in 1792 with the section of the Postal Service Act. It was raised to a bureau level division in 1872, and was changed by the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 into the United States Postal Service as an autonomous agency. Since the mid 1980s, many direct expense endowments to the USPS (except for appropriations for costs related with impaired and abroad citizens) have been decreased or disposed of.

Current activities

The USPS works one of the biggest regular citizen vehicle armadas on the planet, with an expected 227,896 vehicles, most of which are the handily distinguished Chevrolet/Grumman LLV (long-life vehicle), and the fresher Ford/Utilimaster FFV (flex-fuel vehicle), initially likewise alluded to as the CRV (transporter course vehicle). Produced using 1987 to 1994 and with no cooling, no airbags, no electronically monitored slowing mechanisms, and lacking space for the enormous current volume of online business bundles, the Grumman armada finished its normal life expectancy in financial year 2017. The substitution cycle started in 2015, and models have been created by different bidders, yet because of deferrals as of May 2020, a last agreement for substitution trucks has not been awarded.

It is by topography and volume the globe's biggest postal framework, conveying 47% of the world's mail. For each penny expansion in the public normal cost of gas, the USPS spends an extra US$8 million every year to fuel its armada.

The Department of Defense and the USPS mutually work a postal framework to convey mail for the military; this is known as the Army Post Office (for Army and Air Force postal offices) and the Fleet Post Office (for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard postal offices).

Administration and association

The Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service sets strategy, methodology, and postal rates for administrations delivered. It has a comparable job to a corporate governing body. Of the eleven individuals from the Board, nine are named by the president and affirmed by the United States Senate. The nine designated individuals at that point select the United States postmaster general, who fills in as the board's 10th part, and who regulates the everyday exercises of the help as CEO. The ten-part board at that point assigns an appointee postmaster general, who goes about as head working official, to the 11th and final open seat.

The autonomous Postal Regulatory Commission (earlier the Postal Rate Commission) is likewise constrained by nominees of the president affirmed by the Senate. It supervises postal rates and related concerns, having the power to affirm or dismiss USPS recommendations.

As an administration organization, it has numerous extraordinary advantages, including sovereign resistance, famous area powers, forces to arrange postal settlements with outside countries, and a selective lawful option to convey top of the line and second rate class mail. Surely, in 2004, the U.S. High Court administered in a consistent choice "The Postal Service isn't dependent upon antitrust responsibility. In both structure and capacity, it's anything but a different antitrust individual from the United States yet is important for the Government, as isn't constrained by the antitrust laws, for example, the Sherman Antitrust Act. Unlike a state-possessed venture, the USPS comes up short on a straightforward proprietorship structure and isn't dependent upon standard guidelines and standards that apply to business substances. The USPS likewise needs business tact and control.

The U.S. High Court has additionally maintained the USPS's legal restraining infrastructure on admittance to letter boxes against a First Amendment the right to speak freely of discourse challenge; it in this manner stays unlawful in the U.S. for anybody, other than the workers and specialists of the USPS, to convey mailpieces to letter boxes stamped "U.S. Mail".

The Postal Service additionally has a Mailers' Technical Advisory Committee and nearby Postal Customer Councils, which are warning and basically include business clients.

USPS Email Service

There are different thoughts, for example, for USPS to make an email administration to serve general society and to carry it into the computerized age. The proposition is to help USPS return back to benefit, to save people in general from online wrongdoing and to help secure the climate by diminishing paper utilization.

Law implementation offices

Under the Mail Cover Program USPS photos the front and back of each piece of U.S. mail as a feature of the arranging cycle, empowering law authorization to get address data and pictures of the exterior of mail as a component of an examination without the requirement for a warrant.

Postal Inspection Service:

The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) is one of the most established law requirement organizations in the U.S. Established by Benjamin Franklin on August 7, 1775, its main goal is to secure the Postal Service, its representatives, and its clients from wrongdoing and shield the country's mail framework from criminal misuse.

Postal Inspectors authorize more than 200 government laws accommodating the security of mail in examinations of violations that may antagonistically influence or deceitfully utilize the U.S. Mail, the postal framework or postal representatives.

The USPIS has the ability to uphold the USPS restraining infrastructure by leading inquiry and seizure attacks on elements they suspect of sending non-critical mail through for the time being conveyance contenders. As per the American Enterprise Institute, a private traditionalist research organization, the USPIS struck Equifax workplaces in 1993 to find out if the mail they were sending through Federal Express was really "very earnest". It was tracked down that the mail was not, and Equifax was fined $30,000.

The PIS regulates the exercises of the Postal Police Force who watch and secure major postal offices in the United States.

Office of Inspector General:

The United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) was approved by law in 1996. Preceding the 1996 enactment, the Postal Inspection Service played out the obligations of the OIG. The controller general, who is autonomous of postal administration, is designated by and reports straightforwardly to the nine officially selected, Senate–affirmed individuals from the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service.

The basic role of the OIG is to forestall, recognize and report extortion, waste and program misuse, and advance effectiveness in the activities of the Postal Service. The OIG has "oversight" obligation regarding all exercises of the Postal Inspection Service.

Monetary administrations

Postal cash orders give a protected option in contrast to sending cash through the mail, and are accessible in any sum up to $1,000. Like a bank check, cash orders are cashable simply by the beneficiary. Not at all like an individual bank check, they are paid ahead of time and thusly can't be returned on account of lacking funds. Money orders are a declining business for the USPS, as organizations like PayPal, Venmo and others are offering electronic substitutions.

From 1911 to 1967, the Postal Service likewise worked the United States Postal Savings System, much the same as a reserve funds and credit relationship with the measure of the store restricted.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; otherwise called the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an autonomous organization of the presidential part of the United States central government liable for offering postal support in the United States, including its separate regions and related states. It is one of only a handful few government offices expressly approved by the United States Constitution.

The USPS follows its underlying foundations to 1775 during the Second Continental Congress, when Benjamin Franklin was designated the principal postmaster general, he likewise served a comparable situation for the provinces of the Kingdom of Great Britain. The Post Office Department was made in 1792 with the section of the Postal Service Act. It was raised to a bureau level division in 1872, and was changed by the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 into the United States Postal Service as an autonomous agency. Since the mid 1980s, many direct expense endowments to the USPS (except for appropriations for costs related with impaired and abroad citizens) have been decreased or disposed of.

Current activities

The USPS works one of the biggest regular citizen vehicle armadas on the planet, with an expected 227,896 vehicles, most of which are the handily distinguished Chevrolet/Grumman LLV (long-life vehicle), and the fresher Ford/Utilimaster FFV (flex-fuel vehicle), initially likewise alluded to as the CRV (transporter course vehicle). Produced using 1987 to 1994 and with no cooling, no airbags, no electronically monitored slowing mechanisms, and lacking space for the enormous current volume of online business bundles, the Grumman armada finished its normal life expectancy in financial year 2017. The substitution cycle started in 2015, and models have been created by different bidders, yet because of deferrals as of May 2020, a last agreement for substitution trucks has not been awarded.

It is by topography and volume the globe's biggest postal framework, conveying 47% of the world's mail. For each penny expansion in the public normal cost of gas, the USPS spends an extra US$8 million every year to fuel its armada.

The Department of Defense and the USPS mutually work a postal framework to convey mail for the military; this is known as the Army Post Office (for Army and Air Force postal offices) and the Fleet Post Office (for Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard postal offices).

Administration and association

The Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service sets strategy, methodology, and postal rates for administrations delivered. It has a comparable job to a corporate governing body. Of the eleven individuals from the Board, nine are named by the president and affirmed by the United States Senate. The nine designated individuals at that point select the United States postmaster general, who fills in as the board's 10th part, and who regulates the everyday exercises of the help as CEO. The ten-part board at that point assigns an appointee postmaster general, who goes about as head working official, to the 11th and final open seat.

The autonomous Postal Regulatory Commission (earlier the Postal Rate Commission) is likewise constrained by nominees of the president affirmed by the Senate. It supervises postal rates and related concerns, having the power to affirm or dismiss USPS recommendations.

As an administration organization, it has numerous extraordinary advantages, including sovereign resistance, famous area powers, forces to arrange postal settlements with outside countries, and a selective lawful option to convey top of the line and second rate class mail. Surely, in 2004, the U.S. High Court administered in a consistent choice "The Postal Service isn't dependent upon antitrust responsibility. In both structure and capacity, it's anything but a different antitrust individual from the United States yet is important for the Government, as isn't constrained by the antitrust laws, for example, the Sherman Antitrust Act. Unlike a state-possessed venture, the USPS comes up short on a straightforward proprietorship structure and isn't dependent upon standard guidelines and standards that apply to business substances. The USPS likewise needs business tact and control.

The U.S. High Court has additionally maintained the USPS's legal restraining infrastructure on admittance to letter boxes against a First Amendment the right to speak freely of discourse challenge; it in this manner stays unlawful in the U.S. for anybody, other than the workers and specialists of the USPS, to convey mailpieces to letter boxes stamped "U.S. Mail".

The Postal Service additionally has a Mailers' Technical Advisory Committee and nearby Postal Customer Councils, which are warning and basically include business clients.

USPS Email Service

There are different thoughts, for example, for USPS to make an email administration to serve general society and to carry it into the computerized age. The proposition is to help USPS return back to benefit, to save people in general from online wrongdoing and to help secure the climate by diminishing paper utilization.

Law implementation offices

Under the Mail Cover Program USPS photos the front and back of each piece of U.S. mail as a feature of the arranging cycle, empowering law authorization to get address data and pictures of the exterior of mail as a component of an examination without the requirement for a warrant.

Postal Inspection Service:

The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) is one of the most established law requirement organizations in the U.S. Established by Benjamin Franklin on August 7, 1775, its main goal is to secure the Postal Service, its representatives, and its clients from wrongdoing and shield the country's mail framework from criminal misuse.

Postal Inspectors authorize more than 200 government laws accommodating the security of mail in examinations of violations that may antagonistically influence or deceitfully utilize the U.S. Mail, the postal framework or postal representatives.

The USPIS has the ability to uphold the USPS restraining infrastructure by leading inquiry and seizure attacks on elements they suspect of sending non-critical mail through for the time being conveyance contenders. As per the American Enterprise Institute, a private traditionalist research organization, the USPIS struck Equifax workplaces in 1993 to find out if the mail they were sending through Federal Express was really "very earnest". It was tracked down that the mail was not, and Equifax was fined $30,000.

The PIS regulates the exercises of the Postal Police Force who watch and secure major postal offices in the United States.

Office of Inspector General:

The United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) was approved by law in 1996. Preceding the 1996 enactment, the Postal Inspection Service played out the obligations of the OIG. The controller general, who is autonomous of postal administration, is designated by and reports straightforwardly to the nine officially selected, Senate–affirmed individuals from the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service.

The basic role of the OIG is to forestall, recognize and report extortion, waste and program misuse, and advance effectiveness in the activities of the Postal Service. The OIG has "oversight" obligation regarding all exercises of the Postal Inspection Service.

Monetary administrations

Postal cash orders give a protected option in contrast to sending cash through the mail, and are accessible in any sum up to $1,000. Like a bank check, cash orders are cashable simply by the beneficiary. Not at all like an individual bank check, they are paid ahead of time and thusly can't be returned on account of lacking funds. Money orders are a declining business for the USPS, as organizations like PayPal, Venmo and others are offering electronic substitutions.

From 1911 to 1967, the Postal Service likewise worked the United States Postal Savings System, much the same as a reserve funds and credit relationship with the measure of the store restricted.