“They’re just trying to get rid of the post office,” said Lilja, 65, a letter carrier in Pittsburgh for more than three decades. His background is in logistics companies that are direct competitors of the Postal Service, and he has donated more than $2 million to the Trump campaign and Republican causes since 2016. The Marshalls and their neighbors acknowledged that the Postal Service is in a financial bind, with a $13 billion revenue shortfall predicted when the fiscal year ends in September. ADAD“Why don’t they ask the people on the front lines for the solutions, the letter carrier?” Lilja suggested. “The Federalist Papers, essays drafted to convince the states to ratify the Constitution, were disseminated through the Post Office,” Rolando noted.

Source: Washington Post August 26, 2020 12:00 UTC