SAVE AMERICA’S POSTAL SERVICE RALLY
PLEASE JOIN US TO SAVE AMERICA’S POSTAL SERVICE
FROM A CRISIS CREATED BY CONGRESS
THERE’S AN EASY FIX AND YOU CAN HELP
(Please read details below)
FROM A CRISIS CREATED BY CONGRESS
THERE’S AN EASY FIX AND YOU CAN HELP
(Please read details below)
TUESDAY September 27, 2011
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
AT THE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OFFICES OF
ALLEN WEST
6300 NE 1st Ave
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
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About this Event
Over the next month, Congress will be forced to make major decisions about the future of the Postal Service.
We all must do our part to ensure that the concerns of both the customers and the hardworking men and women of USPS are taken into consideration.
"Save America's Postal Service" rallies are informational events that will take place in every congressional district in the United States on Sept. 27 from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (local time).
They are designed to encourage Congress to pass H.R. 1351, legislation that addresses the financial crisis facing the Postal Service.
Events will engage the public through speeches, handouts and gatherings to make our voices heard. They are not protests.
It's anticipated that a wide variety of supporters will participate in "Save America's Postal Service" rallies, including small business owners who use the mail to advertise, businesses that consistently ship products using the Postal Service, and faith leaders and progressive allies who have concerns for the plight of working men and women.
Our combined dedication and activism will contribute to returning the Postal Service to solid financial footing.
A congressional mandate is killing the U.S. Postal Service
A 2006 postal reform law requires the USPS to pre-fund 75 years’ worth of future retiree health benefits within just 10 years. That means prefunding retiree health benefits for people that have not even been born yet. All this at the behest of the Office of Personnel Management and the Government Accountability Office, and to make the law appear not to cost the government money (to be “revenue neutral), Congress included in the law that destructive pre-funding mandate.
No other federal agency or private enterprise is forced to pre-fund similar benefits like this, especially on such an aggressive schedule.
This postal-only mandate costs the USPS $5.5 Billion per year. It accounts for 100% of the Postal Service’s $20 Billion in losses over the past four years.
It also accounts for 100% of the rise in the Postal Service’s debt in recent years.
Without the mandate, the USPS would have been profitable over the past four years, and rather than having to use up its $15 Billion line of credit from the U.S. Treasury to cover the pre-funding obligation, the Postal Service would have had significant borrowing authority to ride out the bad economy it now faces.
The $47 Billion the Postal Service has deposited so far into its retiree health fund over the past four years instead could have been spent on operating costs.
The Postal Service and its employees don’t want a taxpayer bailout. We have not received any taxpayer funds in nearly 30 years.
What we do want is the freedom to use our own surplus pension funds to pay down the pre-funding obligation.
But this can only happen if Congress changes the current law
SAVE AMERICA’S POSTAL SERVICE RALLY
PLEASE JOIN US TO SAVE AMERICA’S POSTAL SERVICE
FROM A CRISIS CREATED BY CONGRESS
THERE’S AN EASY FIX AND YOU CAN HELP
(Please read details below)
FROM A CRISIS CREATED BY CONGRESS
THERE’S AN EASY FIX AND YOU CAN HELP
(Please read details below)
TUESDAY September 27, 2011
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
AT THE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OFFICES OF
ALLEN WEST
6300 NE 1st Ave Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
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