COVID-19 & US healthcare system - thread relapse

[LynnInDenver]

The President said he would not give emergency funding to the US Postal Service unless they quadruple their prices, despite Congress' allocation of money.  If they do so, they will cost much, much more than their competitors, who don't have to deliver to every person.  It sounds like either way, the money will run out for the USPS in June.

So it looks like the plan to vote by mail during the second wave in November is dead.  As dead as the post office, and as dead as we're going to be after waiting in long lines with hundreds of people to vote.

Sadly, there is nothing we can do.  Just two months ago, Congress decided that a President cannot be impeached for refusing to pay money that Congress had lawfully appropriated to achieve political goals.  So killing the post office cannot be an impeachable offense, even if the post office is required by the constitution.

But vote we must, even if it kills us.  Just as fifty-four thousand Americans died in the Korean War, now fifty thousand have died to the coronavirus.  This is the price of freedom.

Looks like he's doing it more on his attempting to pressure Bezos to dump/restructure the Washington Post: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-healt...SKCN226367

Note: It would fly better politically if it were an across the board increase for 100% of shippers like Amazon and FedEx. But on the other side, the price increase we'd all have to suffer as a result, even if it were limited to packages, is a serious issue. And where do you draw the line between an individual's need to ship packages, and where someone is shipping enough to mandate they go to the corporate rate? At what Etsy volume do you require it? How do you enforce it?

Also, the biggest reason this is becoming an issue, as I recall, is that the Post Office is required to be "self sustaining", which in and of itself isn't a problem, but like the rest of the economy has become, means that it's exceptionally sensitive to sudden crisis knocks.