5/30/2023 0 Comments Usps finances![]() Ideas include everything from making post offices function more like UPS stores to turning the Postal Service into a broadband provider. “So we’re very keen on all sorts of expanded services.” “There needs to be creativity and other things the post office can do, when it’s done its mission of binding the country together,” Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), told Recode. In other words, to grapple with its ongoing existential crisis, the Postal Service needs to rethink its very existence. While it sounds a bit odd at first, an increasingly popular idea to fix the agency’s financial woes is to give it more jobs to do. ![]() In the long term, Congress could decide to privatize the Postal Service, fulfilling one of the Trump administration’s ambitions but likely denying service to millions of Americans. Such a financial crisis would mean laying off workers, limiting service, and worsening delays - and delays are already so bad that holiday cards mailed in early December are still being delivered in late January. Without help from the federal government, the Postal Service could run out of cash later this year. Now, in Washington, DC, a coalition of lawmakers and advocates are trying to pull off a different sort of feat: saving the United States Postal Service. In November, on the day that networks called the election for Joe Biden, cheering crowds stopped mail trucks in the streets of New York City to thank postal workers for delivering more than 135 million mail-in ballots on time during a pandemic.
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