It all began in 2006 during the Bush administration. It was the end of the U.S. Postal Service in this country as we know it. The Republican Congress passed legislation demanding the post office prefund 75 years of its employee benefits package in 10 years. This amounted to $5.5 billion annually.

There is no other corporation in this country that has been subjected to this type of scrutiny. The postal service is not funded by the federal government.

U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, a multimillionaire and chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has outlined the cost of door-slot deliveries, but he hasn’t mentioned what it will cost to build proposed communal stations all over the country when we already have post offices in place. It seems as if this is his attempt to award private, lucrative contracts in order to bust up the unions. We have no control over this destruction. Rep. Issa will make exceptions for the people with disabilities, etc., but if you want door-slot deliveries, it will cost you when it is free now.

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