Rahm: “Didn’t Get Your Medicine, Your Social Security Check?” It's Trump's fault!
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"You haven't gotten your medicine in the mail? Donald Trump, that's the problem. You haven't gotten your Social Security check and you're going to miss your mortgage payment? Donals Trump's the problem."
(at about 28:00)
Umm....Rahm....where have you been?
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Are new and replacement “Direct Express debit cards” mailed via the USPS or delivered using private courier services?
What about applications and supporting documents to get the benefits or to get new or replacement “Direct Express debut cards” that are mailed?
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@Axtremus said in Rahm: “Didn’t Get Your Medicine, Your Social Security Check?” It's Trump's fault!:
Are new and replacement “Direct Express debit cards” mailed via the USPS or delivered using private
No idea on either. But Rahm's implication was obvious. You're not going to get your check because OrangeManBad(
).Fear-mongering at its worst - almost as bad as pushing grandma, in her wheelchair, over a cliff.
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Actually, it's part of the new consolidated Dem Mantra on the Post Office.
Trump's new Postmaster is not well liked by many. I think he's a mixed bag...Some things he is trying to do will not work, maybe some will. Regardless, it is very hard to effect change in that organization.
The second bone of contention is the USPS and mail-in ballots. Trump doesn't want to give them extra money to deliver ballots, and the Dems don't like that. Pelosi will be calling a special session to address the issue.
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The idea that the Postal Service will not be able to handle the volume of mail in the election, or not be able to handle it within normal Postal Service time guidelines, does not make much sense. According to its most recent annual report, last year, in fiscal year 2019, the Postal Service handled 142.5 billion pieces of mail. "On a typical day, our 633,000 employees physically process and deliver 471 million mailpieces to nearly 160 million delivery points," the report says. This year, that number is higher, given the Postal Service's delivery of census forms and stimulus checks. Those alone added about 450 million additional pieces of mail.
In 2016, about 136 million Americans voted in the presidential election. The number will probably be a bit higher this year. If officials sent ballots to every single American registered to vote -- about 158 million people -- and then 140 million people returned ballots, the roughly 298 million pieces of mail handled over the course of several weeks would be well within the Postal Service's ability to handle. Of course, officials will not send a ballot to every American registered to vote, and not every voter will vote by mail. Whatever the final number is, the ballots that are cast by mail will not cripple a system that delivers 471 million pieces of mail every day.
The House HEROES Act would give $25 billion to the Postal Service in what is essentially a bailout. The bill mentions nothing about helping the Postal Service handle the upcoming election or any other election. Indeed, the only stipulation at all placed on the $25 billion is that the Postal Service, "during the coronavirus emergency, shall prioritize the purchase of, and make available to all Postal Service employees and facilities, personal protective equipment, including gloves, masks, and sanitizers, and shall conduct additional cleaning and sanitizing of Postal Service facilities and delivery vehicles." If the House Democrats who wrote and passed the bill intended the money to be spent specifically for elections, they did not say so in the text of the legislation.
In addition, there have been reports of the Postal Service removing collection boxes and sorting machines. While some Democrats and journalists have portrayed that as another effort toward voter suppression, the fact is the number of letters the Postal Service handles each year has declined for 20 years since the arrival of email. In those last two decades, the Postal Service has downsized its capabilities as the number of letters handled has decreased. Here is how the Washington Post described the situation, specifically concerning sorting machines: "Purchased when letters not packages made up a greater share of postal work, the bulky and aging machines can be expensive to maintain and take up floor space postal leaders say would be better devoted to boxes. Removing underused machines would make the overall system more efficient, postal leaders say. The Postal Service has cut back on mail-sorting equipment for years since mail volume began to decline in the 2000s."
One more note about delivery times. A few days ago the Washington Post published a story headlined "Postal Service warns 46 states their voters could be disenfranchised by delayed mail-in ballots." The paper obtained letters from Postal Service leadership to various states informing them that some of their election deadlines are "incongruous with the Postal Service's delivery standards." The resulting "mismatch," the Postal Service said, "creates a risk that ballots requested near the deadline under state law will not be returned by mail in time to be counted under your laws as we understand them." In other words, several states are not giving the Postal Service long enough to deliver a ballot to a voter and then deliver the filled-in ballot to the state election board. For example, if a state's law allows a voter to request a ballot seven days before the general election but also requires that votes must be received by election day to be counted -- that would be a recipe for a lot of votes not being counted. It was an entirely reasonable concern on the part of the Postal Service, and it is a problem more for the states than the Postal Service. Yet media discussion of the story suggested it was just another chapter in what one source in the Post account called "the weaponization of the U.S. Postal Service for the president's electoral purposes."
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The democrats know Biden is going to lose. So they are creating this controversy to set the stage for 4 more years of "the resistance". It will allow them to claim the election wasn't legitimate, and give them new reasons for conducting constant impeachment attempts.
For the survival of our nation, the democrat party must be destroyed.
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The Post Office collection boxes the USPS are removing, are those that do not pass audit. The USPS will audit a box for 7 days, and if it does not receive an average of 25 pieces of mail per day, it is removed.
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Overtime has been cut tremendously or completely at almost all post offices. It is an effort to cut costs...
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The Post Office collection boxes the USPS are removing, are those that do not pass audit. The USPS will audit a box for 7 days, and if it does not receive an average of 25 pieces of mail per day, it is removed.
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Overtime has been cut tremendously or completely at almost all post offices. It is an effort to cut costs...
@Jolly said in Rahm: “Didn’t Get Your Medicine, Your Social Security Check?” It's Trump's fault!:
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The Post Office collection boxes the USPS are removing, are those that do not pass audit. The USPS will audit a box for 7 days, and if it does not receive an average of 25 pieces of mail per day, it is removed.
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Overtime has been cut tremendously or completely at almost all post offices. It is an effort to cut costs...
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That's a stupid way to do audit. The USPS collection box that receives 24 pieces of mail per day on average between Feb.1 and Feb.7 may receive 50 pieces of mail per day on average between Aug.21 and Aug.27. You want to do a proper audit, you look at year-round trends.
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Cut costs -- for a delivery service in the middle of a pandemic where most people need to minimize in-person meetings and minimize travel. The stupidity of this timing is enormous.
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It's much harder to do an audit during the dark phase of the moon, when Aquarius is rising. And that wouldn't satisfy some people,
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USPS is bleeding money. What else would you like them to do?
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It's much harder to do an audit during the dark phase of the moon, when Aquarius is rising. And that wouldn't satisfy some people,
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USPS is bleeding money. What else would you like them to do?
@Jolly said in Rahm: “Didn’t Get Your Medicine, Your Social Security Check?” It's Trump's fault!:
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It's much harder to do an audit during the dark phase of the moon, when Aquarius is rising. And that wouldn't satisfy some people,
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USPS is bleeding money. What else would you like them to do?
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Now you resort to strawman. I said to look at year-round trends to determine which collection boxes are under utilized. This is not a hard concept to understand or put into operation.
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Give them money. It's an essential service that's even more essential in the middle of a pandemic. The USPS's financial issues have been there a long time. Trump put up with for the last three and a half years, the GOP controlled House put up with it for two, the GOP controlled Senate put up with it for three and a half. Choosing to squeeze the USPS in the middle of the pandemic, when the general public is rely on delivery services more than ever, is moronic and asinine. The right to do is to tie them over with additional public funds as the people cope with the pandemic, then get back to cost controls after the pandemic is over.
I will address @Larry's post next.
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The USPS - a government agency losing money hand over fist all while UPS and FEDEX are turning a profit....
And they want you to let them handle your health care.....
@Larry said in Rahm: “Didn’t Get Your Medicine, Your Social Security Check?” It's Trump's fault!:
The USPS - a government agency losing money hand over fist all while UPS and FEDEX are turning a profit....
Stupid comparisons to UPS and FedEx. The private courier services can choose to serve only the profitable markets and the profitable routes. The USPS has no such luxury, not should the USPS be given such luxury. There are people, you can even say "good people", living in very remote, very rural areas where the private courier forsake as insufficiently profitable to serve. But the USPS is there for them. That's public service, that's essential service.
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@Axtremus I don't think taxpayers have an obligation to fund a letter/parcel delivery service to everybody no matter where they choose to live. But just so we're aware of this population the USPS is primarily there to serve, can you give some examples of places no other delivery service serves, and can you ball park the number of such addresses in the US? Personally I've been hoping for the USPS to go away for decades now. It is more trouble than it is worth.
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UPS and FEDEX go everywhere they have something to deliver. Are you so stupid that you think people out in the rural areas don't get packages? I guarantee you that if you turned the postal system over to UPS they do just as good a job, deliver ever letter, and show a profit.
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I kind of agree with Ax. From my read, the US Post Office has a lot of restrictions that a private company do not have to deal with.
I agree that the US Post Office can do with some changes, but it is not as simple as saying - "see what these private companies can do."
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I resent the post office for the efficiencies it has allowed for that are used to waste my time and attention picking up, sorting, opening, and throwing away advertisements I would prefer never to receive. That is why I think the private sector should take the industry over.
Actually I shouldn’t say the usps has allowed for efficiencies, I think the reason it’s cheap for advertisers to spam you is because of tax dollar support.
Education is extremely important.
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I kind of agree with Ax. From my read, the US Post Office has a lot of restrictions that a private company do not have to deal with.
I agree that the US Post Office can do with some changes, but it is not as simple as saying - "see what these private companies can do."
@taiwan_girl said in Rahm: “Didn’t Get Your Medicine, Your Social Security Check?” It's Trump's fault!:
I kind of agree with Ax. From my read, the US Post Office has a lot of restrictions that a private company do not have to deal with.
I agree that the US Post Office can do with some changes, but it is not as simple as saying - "see what these private companies can do."
So... the inefficiencies of the postal service are due to them being restricted... By what exactly? Rules? Who put the rules in place? The government? So a government agency can't compete because of restrictions put on it by government? What is it exactly that a private company can do that the post office can't do? Since its a government agency, couldnt the government remove these restrictions so the post office can compete?
And if our healthcare system was turned into another government agency, wouldn't it stand to reason that the same poor leadership that restricted the post office to the point that it loses money because it can't compete with for profit companies also restrict the agency in charge of health care to the point that it couldnt provide healthcare as efficiently as for profit healthcare?
I pretty well know how you'll answer, so I'll go ahead and give you the correct answers. If there are restrictions on the postal service that causes it to be unable to compete with private, for profit companies, it's the government to put them there, and you've just proven that the best, most efficient way to run things is through private, for profit business. You have given us the very reason that government cannot run a cat fight, much less a postal service, or more importantly, healthcare.
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I resent the post office for the efficiencies it has allowed for that are used to waste my time and attention picking up, sorting, opening, and throwing away advertisements I would prefer never to receive. That is why I think the private sector should take the industry over.
Actually I shouldn’t say the usps has allowed for efficiencies, I think the reason it’s cheap for advertisers to spam you is because of tax dollar support.
@Horace said in Rahm: “Didn’t Get Your Medicine, Your Social Security Check?” It's Trump's fault!:
I resent the post office for the efficiencies it has allowed for that are used to waste my time and attention picking up, sorting, opening, and throwing away advertisements I would prefer never to receive. That is why I think the private sector should take the industry over.
Actually I shouldn’t say the usps has allowed for efficiencies, I think the reason it’s cheap for advertisers to spam you is because of tax dollar support.
Yes indeed. At least 90% of the mail we get is unsolicited junk mail. I re=sent tax dollars being spent to advertise private companies.
Incidentally, our junk mail has risen even higher than that since I became eligible for Medicare.
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@Jolly said in Rahm: “Didn’t Get Your Medicine, Your Social Security Check?” It's Trump's fault!:
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It's much harder to do an audit during the dark phase of the moon, when Aquarius is rising. And that wouldn't satisfy some people,
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USPS is bleeding money. What else would you like them to do?
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Now you resort to strawman. I said to look at year-round trends to determine which collection boxes are under utilized. This is not a hard concept to understand or put into operation.
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Give them money. It's an essential service that's even more essential in the middle of a pandemic. The USPS's financial issues have been there a long time. Trump put up with for the last three and a half years, the GOP controlled House put up with it for two, the GOP controlled Senate put up with it for three and a half. Choosing to squeeze the USPS in the middle of the pandemic, when the general public is rely on delivery services more than ever, is moronic and asinine. The right to do is to tie them over with additional public funds as the people cope with the pandemic, then get back to cost controls after the pandemic is over.
I will address @Larry's post next.
@Axtremus said in Rahm: “Didn’t Get Your Medicine, Your Social Security Check?” It's Trump's fault!:
@Jolly said in Rahm: “Didn’t Get Your Medicine, Your Social Security Check?” It's Trump's fault!:
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It's much harder to do an audit during the dark phase of the moon, when Aquarius is rising. And that wouldn't satisfy some people,
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USPS is bleeding money. What else would you like them to do?
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Now you resort to strawman. I said to look at year-round trends to determine which collection boxes are under utilized. This is not a hard concept to understand or put into operation.
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Give them money. It's an essential service that's even more essential in the middle of a pandemic. The USPS's financial issues have been there a long time. Trump put up with for the last three and a half years, the GOP controlled House put up with it for two, the GOP controlled Senate put up with it for three and a half. Choosing to squeeze the USPS in the middle of the pandemic, when the general public is rely on delivery services more than ever, is moronic and asinine. The right to do is to tie them over with additional public funds as the people cope with the pandemic, then get back to cost controls after the pandemic is over.
I will address @Larry's post next.
No, I wouldn't say that was a straw man argument, rather reductio ad absurdum. Your proposal to monitor a box for a year is so preposterous and resource consuming, it warrants little more than laughter.
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