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Bulk mail industry shareholders, Fed Ex, UPS, and other delivery services urge it. Hutkins, like Nader and others, say saving the Postal Service requires Congress to stop assessing USPS $5 billion annually for retiree benefits. Moreover, some or the entire $75 billion overfunding amount must be rebated.
Doing so will make USPS fiscally sound. As a result, it'll be able to expand services and benefit everyone, not just large business mailers. Instead of downsizing, the Postal Service "should reduce its outsourcing to private companies (now getting $12 billion in business). Much of that work could be done" internally.
Radical downsizing won't save USPS. It'll destroy it. It'll also cause "irrevocable harm" to thousands of postal worker families and communities nationwide. "Wake up America," says Hutkins. "They're coming for the post office."
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