The Public Needs To Know

Congressman Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Hills) on Tuesday pledged his support to U.S. Postal Service employees as nearly 100 letter carriers, mail handlers and postal workers gathered outside his office in Troy to rally for federal legislation they say would prevent a collapse of the postal service.

"We need to make sure we have a strong postal service," Peters told the crowd. "You can make sure I will be there with you."

"Tell the Hill to pass the bill," Royal Oak letter carrier John Dick shouted into a megaphone while dozens of people marched with picket signs. “The public needs to know why the postal service is in a financial mess,” Dick said. “If it was not for the unprecedented pre-funding of the Retiree Health Benefit Fund, the postal service would have actually made a profit of $611 million over the last four years.”

At the crux of the issue is a 2006 federal mandate that requires the postal service to pre-fund future retiree benefits for the next 75 years, and do so within 10 years. Supporters of the proposed legislation say the bill would fix the pre-funding requirement.

The public needs to know... the public needs to know... the public needs to know the Republican party is a corrupt, dishonest, America killing piece of garbage. The public needs to know they set up the USPS to fail. The public needs to know they did this because they're working on behalf UPS and Fedex instead of the American people, and they're trying to kill the 600,000 strong postal union. Try to get UPS to deliver a letter for 42 cents, suckers.