Check yourself, Nancy…

In her “letter to colleagues”,  which was actually a press release,  Speaker Pelosi claims the United States Postal Service  delivers Social  Security checks,  among other things.   How can she not know that Social Security checks have not been delivered by mail in a decade?   Dollars to donuts she was singing Saint Obama’s praises and cheering the use of technology to reduce costs and increase safety by taking the postal Service out of the equation.  So of course she wants the Postal Service to become Election Central, and therefore keeps conflating absentee ballots with regular ballots.  Absentee ballots require first-class postage.  They are expensive to handle and send and check and copies of the voter’s photo identification are required along with special envelopes.  Democrats do not care what it costs counties and states or the feds,  and they are vehemently opposed to requiring any sort of individual ID or tracking, because those things would impede their efforts to impede Republican candidates.

Pelosi is calling Congress back to  work on   for the Postal Service,  but her goal is to try to force Trump into handing over $25 billion so Democrats can claim the service has plenty of money to handle total all mail-in elections.

 

 

Angelou stamp has someone else’s quote…

The new  postage stamp  honoring the late poet Maya Angelou features a quote often attributed to her,  and by no less than His Oneness.   But the quote is from a book of poetry by children’s book author Joan Walsh Anglund,  a fact apparently unknown to Mr. Obama,  the Postal Service, and Angelou’s own family,  which approved the stamp.

One must not disturb the glossy narrative of liberals and progressives with anything so inconvenient as the truth.

 

Postal Service vs Staples…

Unions  are furious  that the Post Office is opening outlets inside Staples stores,  staffed not by exorbitantly overpaid union employees,  but by Staples employees,  and the unions are panicked that if the venture is successful,  more of Staples 1,500 outlets will be allowed to offer the service.

Unions are now visiting Staples store managers to express their displeasure  — read that as making threats  — and grumbling about boycotts.   They should,  because most post offices feature the same disinterested,  surly,  unaccountable workers as your local DMV.   I’m happy with the rural post office I use because they haven’t been infected with the typical bureaucratic diseases,  but sane people would prefer the friendly help Staples will provide.

Postal blues…

The Postal Service has found a new way to lose money  —  start a  new clothing line  of fall-weather apparel and accessories sometime next year.   Saturday mail delivery will end in August,  but it has done nothing to rid itself of its expensive workers and pensions.  Of course,  it sees nothing wrong with spending over $2 million on an  employee conference  in San Francisco this year.