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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><STRONG>This is NOT being done by republicans alone
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Don't forget the corporate democrats including
Obama have been supportive of sabotoging and privatizing the U.S. Postal
Service, just like they are trying to do to Medicare and Social
Security.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>David Johnson</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<A title=jencart13@yahoo.com href="mailto:jencart13@yahoo.com">Jenifer
Cartwright</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 03, 2013 10:55
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Peace-discuss] Fw: Will our US
Postal Service be sold out?</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>For yr attn and action. ColorofChange gets
results!<BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 2/21/13, Rashad Robinson,
ColorOfChange.org <I><<A
href="mailto:info@colorofchange.org">info@colorofchange.org</A>></I></B>
wrote:<BR>
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Rashad Robinson, ColorOfChange.org <<A
href="mailto:info@colorofchange.org">info@colorofchange.org</A>><BR>Subject:
Will our USPS be sold out?<BR>To: "Jenifer Cartwright" <<A
href="mailto:jencart13@yahoo.com">jencart13@yahoo.com</A>><BR>Date:
Thursday, February 21, 2013, 9:52 AM<BR><BR>
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Republicans are trying to bankrupt the post office — so
they can privatize it.</STRONG></SPAN>
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Congress: Stand up for postal workers and the public.
Hands off our Postal Service!</SPAN></STRONG></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">Dear Jenifer,</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">House Republicans are jumping at the chance
to put the U.S. Postal Service — one of America’s most widely-used and
well-trusted civic institutions<SUP>1</SUP> — on the chopping block,
and to throw a half million largely Black and female unionized workers
out of a job.<SUP>2,3</SUP></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px"><STRONG>It's a scandal. By most mainstream
news accounts, the USPS is broke and beyond repair.</STRONG> The media
is now parroting what used to be far-right talking points about
actually selling off, or privatizing, the postal system
outright.<SUP>4</SUP></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">Except the post office isn't broke — and
hasn’t taken a dime of taxpayer money since 1971.<SUP>5</SUP>
<STRONG>Congress created the USPS's financial crisis, and they could
end it today</STRONG>. A Bush-era requirement that the Postal Service
pre-fund its retiree benefits 75 years into the future — a burden
imposed on no other government agency or private employer — has been
digging the otherwise profitable Postal Service deeper and deeper into
the red.<SUP>6,7</SUP> Instead of working to fix the problem,
Republicans in the House are taking advantage of the post office's
financial vulnerability to try to shut it down.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px"><STRONG><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2263?t=3&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>Please join us in urging Congress to enact
postal reform that drops the USPS's unfair 75-year pre-funding burden
and keeps the post office in service to the public.</A></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">Due to its exceptional
efficiency,<SUP>8</SUP> the Postal Service has managed to turn a
profit on postal sales in the worst economy since the Great
Depression. But the massive pre-funding payments required by Congress
have added up, and the <STRONG>USPS’s financial situation is now so
dire that the Postmaster General is threatening to cut Saturday mail
delivery</STRONG>.<SUP>9</SUP> Such a move would immediately slash 18%
of the postal workforce<SUP>10</SUP> and create delays for Veterans'
and Social Security checks, putting people who are already struggling
to make it to the end of the month at even greater
risk.<SUP>11</SUP></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">Because of its obligation and
responsibility to provide affordable, universal service, <STRONG>only
the USPS can be counted on to reach every home in America, rain or
shine</STRONG>. After Superstorm Sandy, which severed public
transportation links and shuttered retail for weeks in the worst-hit
areas, the Postal Service was all many had to rely on for access to
life-saving medicines.<SUP>12</SUP> Live in an urban neighborhood “too
dangerous” for UPS and FedEx, or down a remote rural lane? Without the
USPS you’d receive no service at all.<SUP>13</SUP></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px"><STRONG>The public sector is under
relentless right-wing attack</STRONG><SUP>14</SUP> <STRONG>— and Black
working women are bearing the brunt</STRONG>. Nationwide, 40% of
postal workers are women and 20% are Black, although in cities like
Chicago, Black letter carriers can comprise upwards of 75% of the
local USPS workforce.<SUP>15</SUP> When the country is still
experiencing nearly 8% unemployment — and Black unemployment has
climbed back up to 14%<SUP>16</SUP> — any deliberate effort to put
even more of us out of work is indefensible.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px"><STRONG><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2263?t=4&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>The Postal Service must continue to work
for all of us. Please join us in urging Congress to stop bankrupting
the USPS’s future and adopt real postal reform that respects workers
and our communities.</A></STRONG></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">Claims that mail delivery has been made
obsolete by the advent of email and online bill payment ring hollow
for the <STRONG>46% of Black Americans without access to high-speed
Internet in their homes</STRONG>.<SUP>17</SUP> And making financial
transactions online isn’t an option for the more than 37 million
American households — over 60% of whom are Black or Latino — without a
bank account or access to formal credit,<SUP>18</SUP> for whom
inexpensive post office money orders meet a vitally important
need.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px"><STRONG>Congress will make a decision on
ending Saturday delivery as early as next Friday</STRONG>, setting the
stage for a showdown on the larger question of retiree benefits in
March. To that end, Congress is now working on competing proposals for
postal reform that will result in either further punishing and
privatizing the Postal Service, or in removing obstacles to innovation
and expanding USPS's flexibility to meet additional critical needs —
including by offering public Internet access, community banking and
expanded vote by mail.<SUP>19,20,21</SUP></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px"><STRONG><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2263?t=5&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>Please join us in urging Congress to stand
up for postal workers and the public, by adopting postal reform
legislation that rejects privatization and puts the post office back
on solid financial ground.</A></STRONG> And when you do, please tell
your friends and family to do the same.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">Thanks and Peace,</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">--Rashad, Matt, Arisha, Kim and the rest of
the ColorOfChange.org team<BR> February 21st, 2013</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">References</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">1. “The Postal Service is struggling, but
not because of the mail,” Washington Post, 07-19-12<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2245?t=9&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2245?t=10&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">2. “Postal Workers: The Last Union,”
Truthout, 09-08-11<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2246?t=11&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2246?t=12&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">3. “USPS’s Largely Black and Female
Workforce Rallies to Save Jobs,” Colorlines, 09-28-11<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2255?t=13&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2255?t=14&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">4. “Post Office Privatization Is Probably a
Huge Real Estate Deal,” 08-02-12<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2244?t=15&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2244?t=16&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">5. “The Post Office is not broke—and it
hasn’t taken any of our tax money since 1971,” Hightower Lowdown,
03-01-12<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2259?t=17&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2259?t=18&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">6. “Congress Can Block Postal Austerity,
and Save Saturday Delivery,” The Nation, 02-13-13<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2248?t=19&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2248?t=20&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">7. “Mandate pushed Postal Service into the
red for first quarter,” Washington Post, 02-08-13<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2249?t=21&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2249?t=22&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">8. “Why the Postal Service Is Going Out of
Business,” Forbes, 12-06-11<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2258?t=23&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2258?t=24&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">9. See reference 6.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">10. “Dead Letter Blues,” Jacobin,
02-11-13<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2272?t=25&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2272?t=26&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">11. “Nader, Bernie Sanders Slam Postal
Service for No Sat. Delivery,” The Progressive, 02-06-13<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2251?t=27&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2251?t=28&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">12. “Do We Really Want to Live Without the
Post Office?” Esquire, 01-22-13<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2254?t=29&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2254?t=30&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">13. See reference 2.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">14. “The collateral damage of cutting
postal service,” Washington Post, 02-12-13<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2247?t=31&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2247?t=32&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">15. “U.S. Post Office cuts threaten source
of black jobs,” Reuters, 01-21-13<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2256?t=33&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2256?t=34&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">16. “Black Unemployment Rate Shoots Up from
12.9% to 14%,” Politic365, 01-04-13<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2257?t=35&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2257?t=36&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">17. “Pew Internet: Broadband,” Pew Internet
& American Life Project, 05-24-12<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2252?t=37&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2252?t=38&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">18. “Black, Latino Consumers Severely
Under-Banked,” Atlanta Black Star, 12-07-12<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2253?t=39&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2253?t=40&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">19. “Issa’s Postal Service Reform Bill
Includes Hidden Union Busting,” ThinkProgress, 07-14-11<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2260?t=41&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2260?t=42&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">20. “End of Saturday Mail Delivery Gets
Conservative Support,” Roll Call, 02-06-2013<BR><A
href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2261?t=43&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d"
rel=nofollow
target=_blank>http://act.colorofchange.org/go/2261?t=44&akid=2820.394109.JCCt6d</A></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 1em 0px">21. See reference 6.</P><IMG
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