If you've checked your mail lately, you may have noticed there's not much of it. The volume of mail being sent is way down. And that's bad news for the U.S. Postal Service, advocates say.
"The Postal Service is insolvent," he says."It needs debt forgiveness, not debt extension. And it needs an infusion of capital right now."
Yet during the coronavirus pandemic, its services, which have been deemed essential, are more vital than ever, says Mark Dimondstein, president of the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union. The terms of the loan included in the last funding bill could give control of large parts of the agency to the Treasury Department, and Dimondstein says the Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to eventually privatize the Postal Service."It's in writing," he says."That'sHe says the"small-'d' democratic right to have postal services, no matter who you are and where we live," would disappear or be severely diminished under the plan.
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