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Hero emerges in USPS mess
The first person to notify the country of problems with the United States Postal Service was Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Service Workers Union, according to Rachel Maddow. Isn’t the USPS supposed to notify us and get comments from the public before making sweeping changes?
This whole story worries and angers me, but Kerry Eleveld and kos have talked me down, even though the damage is massive to seniors, vets, people with disabilities, bill payers, and businesses who need our mail system.
"Mail is beginning to pile up in our offices, and we're seeing equipment being removed," said Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Workers Union and a postal clerk in Waterloo, Iowa.
Karol argues that the measures won't save money either. "I see this as a way to undermine the public confidence in the mail service," she said. "It's not saving costs. We're spending more time trying to implement these policy changes, and it's, in our offices, costing more overtime."
Kerry Eleveld: Trump is taking a wrecking ball to the Postal Service. It's unbelievably cruel and politically insane
As scary and as brazen as Trump's unthinkable vote-stealing scheme is, it also carries an unbelievable amount of political risk with it—risk that Trump certainly wasn't smart enough to game out ahead of time.
First, Trump is taking a hatchet to the most popular federal agency in the U.S. government, with a 91% favorability rating, according to Pew Research. That means Trump, by admitting to Fox News that he was intentionally hamstringing the Postal Service, took responsibility for anything that goes wrong with mail delivery. Rural areas of the country—which include many of the GOP's most loyal voters—are particularly dependent on the mail to receive lifesaving medications (including VA prescriptions), Social Security checks, and unemployment checks, just to name a few critical items.
kos: Stupid Trump tries to cheat, but screws his own voters instead
kos enumerates reasons why his ploy with the postal service is folly for the bunker-cowering idiot:
… But all of that pales with this, his greatest political miscalculation. And given his track record, this one is epic indeed.
Trump’s attacks on the U.S. Postal Service will cement his landslide loss, and take down even more Republicans than was already the case.
I usually avoid reading polls, but I found Quinnipiac University’s recent poll (B+ according to 538 Pollster Ratings) interesting.
Dear readers and members of Daily Kos: Please call your Senators and Representatives about the USPS, as advised by Indivisible.
Due to the timing of Rachel Maddow’s interview of Kimberly Karol late on Friday night, Bill in Portland Maine could not include Kimberly in his Who Won the Week poll on Friday. Kimberly Karol is my hero of the week, and I am very grateful to her.
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