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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

merrily

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1. The Postal Regulatory Commission, which controls rate increases, was heavily stacked with

Reply to demwing (Original post)

Mon Jul 4, 2016, 02:42 AM

Jul 2016

people who wanted the Post Office to go the way of dinosaurs, so that Fedex and others could charge us whatever they feel like charging us. The Commission included the guy who did most of the drafting of the 2006 Act, whose (unstated) purpose was to cripple the Post Office.

Nothing like suddenly requiring a government agency to fund its pension requirements 75 years out and then limiting its fee increases. (What if Congress, the White House and the SCOTUS had to do the same?)

Yeah, Kirk, stuff happens. Lately, very little of it has been good stuff.

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