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Trump will fulfil the far right's dream of privatizing the Post Office. - 03/30/2025.

cliffside
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"No, it's not an April Fool's joke—
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April 1st is the day the Post Office begins slowing down the mail,
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officially and intentionally.
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"Service standards" for first-class mail, periodicals, marketing mail,
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and package services will all be adjusted. What a marvelous word,
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right? Yeah—just adjusted—to save an expected $36 billion over the next 10 years.
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By the way, just another little detail: they're no longer going to count Saturdays or the day
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before a holiday as a transit day. So when they say your package will arrive within five days, if
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you're mailing on a Friday, it means it'll arrive five days plus the Friday, plus the Saturday,
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plus the Sunday. Or, if you're mailing it before a holiday weekend, it could be even longer.
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And yeah, an extra day to get to the destination. Isn't that sweet?
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You know what's going to happen? People are going to start complaining about the
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Post Office—people who don't know that Trump is doing this to get them to complain about
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the Post Office. Just like people are going to start complaining about Social Security.
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I mean, the Republicans have gamed this out...."
Rhiannon12866
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