{"id":9424,"date":"2014-12-16T09:45:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T14:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9424"},"modified":"2014-12-16T09:45:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T14:45:37","slug":"video-taxpayers-protection-alliance-tells-the-u-s-postal-service-stick-to-delivering-our-letters-in-new-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/12\/16\/video-taxpayers-protection-alliance-tells-the-u-s-postal-service-stick-to-delivering-our-letters-in-new-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Taxpayers Protection Alliance tells the U.S. Postal Service &#8220;stick to delivering our letters&#8221; in new video"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong><em>President David Williams argues that the USPS must stop costly business ventures and private-market abuse, return to core mission<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ALEXANDRIA, Va.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Dec. 16, 2014<\/span> \/PRNewswire-USNewswire\/ &#8212; The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) today released a damning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r2oJsLarwqY&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">video<\/a> calling on the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to immediately halt expanded offerings it cannot afford and return to its government-chartered mission to dependably deliver First Class mail.<\/p>\n<p>Video will load below. Read more below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r2oJsLarwqY\" width=\"475\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite decades of precedent in which the USPS faithfully met its obligation, TPA views the agency today a shell of itself \u2013 misguided by inept leadership, wasteful and reckless spending, and highly problematic business ventures such as grocery delivery and seven day parcel services. As the video documents, basic mail is suffering alongside market expansion,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/electronic-press-kits\/our-future-network\/assets\/pdf\/ofn-phase-2-faqs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">increasing<\/a>\u00a0at least from 2.14 to 2.25 days on average and making it harder for Americans to send and receive mail on time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our message is clear and consistent: the USPS must stop expanding services into new markets and make good on its obligations to deliver first class mail to anyone, anywhere, at an affordable rate,&#8221; said TPA President <span class=\"xn-person\">David Williams<\/span>. &#8220;Expanding services into the private market is not only wrong because it undercuts private competitors, but because it is coming at the expense of its government-granted monopoly \u2013 mail delivery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the most recent financial disclosures from the USPS the situation is grim. The USPS\u00a0has lost <span class=\"xn-money\">$5.5 billion<\/span> this year alone, <span class=\"xn-money\">$30.5 billion<\/span> since 2011 and continues to put its 600,000 employees at risk, defaulting once again on its <span class=\"xn-money\">$5.7 billion<\/span> retiree health benefits payment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The USPS is ill equipped to provide such a diverse set of offerings both financially and structurally,&#8221; Williams added. &#8220;The agency has lost its way, refusing to prove new delivery services will not disrupt the private market and making promises they will be hard pressed to meet. It is time for real reform that will put the Postal Service on a path to financial stability, end private market abuse, and restore its mandate of delivering the mail on time to Americans. We hope this video can help further that discussion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public through the research, analysis and dissemination of information on the government&#8217;s effects on the economy. For more information, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.protectingtaxpayers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.protectingtaxpayers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Taxpayer-Alliance-Video.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9425\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Taxpayer-Alliance-Video-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"Taxpayer Alliance Video\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Taxpayer-Alliance-Video-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Taxpayer-Alliance-Video.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President David Williams argues that the USPS must stop costly business ventures and private-market abuse, return to core mission ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16, 2014 \/PRNewswire-USNewswire\/ &#8212; The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) today released a damning video calling on the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to immediately halt expanded offerings it cannot afford and return to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-new-bytes","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9426,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424\/revisions\/9426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}