Don’t let ‘em ruin postal service

It seems quite apparent that the United States Postal Service’s upper management is in league with the philosophy of the Republican Party — misguided.

Why? Unbelievable, when one believes the Postmaster General and executive management is trying to destroy our USPS.

During the 2006 lame duck session when Republicans were in control of Congress, they wanted to privatize it. A bill was passed to prepay retiree health insurance ahead for 75 years (fishy) to be compacted into 10 years equaling $5.5 billion annual payments out of postal revenue. This is exactly the amount of the past fiscal year deficit.

A second why. In a recent quarterly report the USPS had a profit of $238 billion and our postal service is No. 1 in every category in the world.

Every employee union is in collective bargaining sessions now. Through disinformation and plain lies these executives and CEO corporate infused USPS governing council members of people on like ilk want to destroy the postal service in unison like their corporate-conscious Republican benefactors.

Privatization has been in other countries and it has been a dismal, disastrous failure. Extremely how salaries and virtually no benefits create massive employee turnover and numerous delivery mistakes. Middle class incomes that our friendly and efficient mail carriers and window clerks is what the Republicans do not care about. They want to appease their corporate campaign giving masters for years.

Middle class incomes for the past 30 years are stagnant while the rich have gotten obscenely richer. The upper 1 percent own more than 50 percent of the wealth of our country and are intent to go back to the robber baron days of the 1900s.

Darn middle class destroyers.

So when you see their postal executives present fictitious scenarios to Congress, chalk it up to the lying inherited consistence of Congress. Shame!

M. Barry Birchfield

Elgin