USPS requests $75B amid pandemic to recover from ‘steep’ drop in mail volume

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Amaz0n is part of their problem from what I hear from friends/family who work for the PO. Amaz0n pays very little for the packages that do get delivered through the PO. Most packages don’t start from the PO they get delivered directly to the PO by a truck or PO is picking them up and bringing them back, therefore Amaz0n is getting a deal for workers just taking them from PO to the customers house. Unfortunately, the records are sealed so no one really knows what kind of deal they are getting, just that is much muchhh less than if I were to pay to mail my friend a package. USP$ also lost a lot of business with them when they started delivering their own packages. My friend would call it Amaz0n Sunday’s every week since that’s all they delivered Sunday’s - but they did away with that last summer.

Besides packages mail volume has also gone down due to online payment systems.. they make most of their money by delivering flyers and magazines who pay them to deliver. What’s sad is that they work so hard and get paid very little. I couldn’t imagine there being no U$P$ - it’s crazy to think about. The prez wants them to increase their pricing for packages by a crazy amount and/or make it privatized in order for them to try to dig out of the debt. Costs have already been going up drastically over the last decade but it’s not enough being a union with pensions etc. It’s sad they don’t get any additional compensation (besides stimulus checks for some) during this time. They are just as essential and work in hot, cold, rain, wind, snow everyday no matter what... they never close. I applaud them and hope higher ups will come to their senses.