(Absolutely, if you need stamps, please, do go buy stamps. But if you don't need stamps and are just buying to "help", read on...)
Raising $1.5 billion is nice and all, but thanks to Republican bullshit, they need in excess of $10 billion. And really...much more than that.
A reminder for those who forgot, and a brief education for those who may never have known why the USPS is where it is:
Republicans hate unions. The USPS is one of the single largest unions in existence. They want it gone for that alone. But also...
like all government entities, they want to kill the USPS with fire and privatize it. The USPS has been one of the most successful examples of an agency overseen by the government that WORKS. They have been trying for a long time to dismantle it, and one of the most recent successes they have had toward this end was--under Bush--Congress forced the USPS to fully fund its retiree benefits plans. Not current retirees. All retirees. For the next 75 years.
"Congressional Republicans mandated that within 10 years the United States Postal Service would have to fully fund retirement health care benefits for the next 75 years. Or to put it more plainly, the Postal Service had a decade to fully fund the retirement health care benefits for future employees that will not even be born until 2057 at the earliest."
We still need to get rid of that damn stipulation. If we could, the USPS would be improved exponentially almost overnight. Yes, literally.
https://ips-dc.org/
A good history of the situation here, very well-written:
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So no, you and me and our friends buying a book of stamps isn't going to save this. And we know our current government is going to do everything in their power to bury them, because they already have been. The sweet, sweet opportunity to kill mail-in voting is a bonus, but not the root cause of the GOP's hatred of the USPS. Their war on the mail has gone on far longer than that...
VOTE BLUE. GET THE REPUBLICANS OUT OF POWER.
That's how we save the USPS.
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