Hello,

Here's some of the latest in USPS news:

Earlier this week, DeJoy announced that he was halting some planned changes to the USPS until after the election, following public outcry. But he will not reverse steps that he has already taken.

“Will you be bringing back any mail sorting machines that have been removed?” Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) asked DeJoy during a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee.

“There is no intention to do that,” DeJoy testified. “They are not needed.”

USPS plants were ordered to remove 671 mail sorting machines that can efficiently process thousands of pieces of mail by the end of September. More than 90 percent of the machines have already been removed—and won’t be replaced.  -Mother Jones

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USPS email tells managers not to reconnect sorting machines -CNN

‘The Postman’ star Kevin Costner reacts to Trump’s USPS controversy: ‘Criminal’ -FOX News

The surprising mission of the Postal Service police who arrested Stephen Bannon  - Washington Post 

‘Like Armageddon’: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks -LA Times

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Denies Political Pressure To Slow Election Mail Delivery -International Business Times

U.S. Mail Delays Slow Delivery of Medicines -New York Times

Small businesses say they're suffering mail delivery delays -Washington Examiner 

Incredible Old Photos Show How Hard Mail Delivery Really Is -BuzzFeed

DeJoy won't replace mail sorting machines, collection boxes already removed -The Detroit News

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I watched DeJoy get questioned today and kept hearing about how the USPS is losing money.

I’d like to point out that it’s called the US Postal Service and fundamental to our way of life.

In my view, the entire functioning of our country as we’ve known it for the past two centuries is the profit it turns.

Second, the funding issue is largely related to HR 6407: 

In 2006, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act was passed, which mandated an extraordinary burden for USPS. Rather than pay for retiree healthcare costs when incurred (aka what practically every company and other government agency does), USPS was given ten years to prefund healthcare benefits for all its future retirees and account for costs for projected retirees, even those who had yet to be employed, 75 years into the future. No other organization faces this requirement, and it cost USPS $5.5 billion a year in the following decade. -Bloomberg

 From 2003 through 2006, USPS recorded a total $9.3 billion profit.  -Business Insider

There’s also a hearing on Monday where Dejoy will testify before Congress.

WAYS TO HELP

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Will you make a phone call to help save the USPS? -via Change.org 

Save the Post Office Saturday" Day of Action

Text USPS to 50409

Contact your representative to support HR2382, HR8015 and HR6800.

HR2382 repeals the requirement that the U.S. Postal Service annually prepay future retirement health benefits.

HR6800 - The Heroes Act includes 25 billion allocated to the USPS

HR8015 - This bill prohibits the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from making changes to operations or levels of service from those that were in effect on January 1, 2020.

Protect USPS: Pass the Delivering for America Act - via Action Network

A rally at the Colorado State Capitol to Save the USPS is taking place on Saturday August 29th

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