{"id":306645,"date":"2017-05-04T18:44:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T17:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-post-office-delivers-literally\/"},"modified":"2017-05-04T18:44:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T17:44:44","slug":"the-post-office-delivers-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-post-office-delivers-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"The Post Office Delivers, Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p>A half-dollar hardly counts as money these days \u2014\u00a0it won&#8217;t even buy a cup of coffee. But pssssst\u2026 here&#8217;s an amazing half-dollar bargain for you: A first-class postage stamp.<\/p>\n<p>For 50 cents, you get the stamp, 3 cents in change, and America&#8217;s phenomenal network of post office workers and letter carriers, who will deliver your missive into any of the 43,000 zip codes of this vast country.<\/p>\n<p>Our public Postal Service literally delivers, and many of our post offices serve as treasured community centers \u2014 two reasons that the U.S. mail service consistently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/179519\/americans-rate-postal-service-highest-major-agencies.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ranks highest<\/a> of all federal agencies in public support.<\/p>\n<p>So, naturally, it must be decimated and ultimately eliminated.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33385\" style=\"width: 598px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33385 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/otherwords.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/8354515_2fe7988789_b-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"postal-service-trucks\" width=\"588\" height=\"392\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Flickr\/ Kai Schreiber)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s what passes for logic in the back rooms of Congress and in the boardrooms of predatory corporations that want to take control our mail for their profit.<\/p>\n<p>They keep demonizing anything public \u2014 especially any public service that actually works and is popular \u2014 because the corporate powers and the congress critters they buy in bulk ultimately intend to privatize all of the people&#8217;s government. To advance their plutocratic vision, they&#8217;re out to tarnish the Postal Service as a massive, money-sucking, dying, bureaucratic behemoth.<\/p>\n<p>But here are a few facts they don&#8217;t want you to realize.<\/p>\n<p>One, this public agency provides affordable mail service to all, in poor communities as well as rich. Two, it does this without a dime of taxpayer money, financing its entire operation with the sale of stamps and services. And three, it provides hundreds of thousands of solid middle-class jobs spread throughout every zip code.<\/p>\n<p>To help keep this public jewel out of the hands of a few greed-headed, price-gouging, low-wage, tax-dodging corporations, support \u201cA Grand Alliance To Save Our Public Post Offices.\u201d Find it at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrandalliance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.AGrandAlliance.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This piece was reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/otherwords.org\/the-post-office-delivers-literally\/\">Other Words<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A half-dollar hardly counts as money these days \u2014\u00a0it won&#8217;t even buy a cup of coffee. But pssssst\u2026 here&#8217;s an amazing half-dollar bargain for you: A first-class postage stamp. For 50 cents, you get the stamp, 3 cents in change, and America&#8217;s phenomenal network of post office workers and letter carriers, who will deliver your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2523,"featured_media":306646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}