Opinion: Congress has created Postal Service crisis

Thanks to The Oregonian for again engaging the debate about the future of the U.S. Postal Service. While Congress is certainly key to a long-term solution to USPS woes, the current postal management is using a phony financial crisis to dismantle the largest, most efficient, reliable and affordable communications and delivery system in the world….

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Postal arrestees’ charges dropped, Activists vow to escalate pressure on the postal service

August 13, 2014 – For Immediate Release “I suspect the authorities dropped the charges because their persecution just emboldened us to further spotlight waste, fraud, and abuse at the people’s postal service,” said Rev. John Schwiebert. Schwiebert was one of the “postal protector” arrestees who were charged with “impeding a mail delivery vehicle” and “blocking a…

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Deride and Conquer: Dismantling the USPS

The historical cost of building our postal network, its unique characteristics and efficiency, the nefarious efforts to privatize and cripple it, and the economic and personal costs of losing it are considered. An army prefers to fight on familiar terrain. Absent such serendipitous circumstances, a good general will try to move the conflict to more…

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