TPA Releases New Timely Holiday Video Telling the U.S. Postal Service to Stick to Delivering Letters

Fed up with the continued fiscal madness over at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) today released an animated holiday-themed video calling on the government-granted monopoly to stop with abusive expansion into private markets and return to its core mission: delivering letters. TPA filed comments with the Postal Regulatory Commission back in September urging the PRC to tread lightly on the new push to expand the USPS grocery delivery service. In the filing, it was stressed that the USPS is nearing a point of financial collapse as it is losing millions of dollars a day and billions of dollars each year. The USPS must definitively show that their previous 60-day test of grocery delivery services was successful and did not lose money. There should be no fast tracking process into new and unknown markets before understanding the possible consequences. TPA urged the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to delay any decision, but unfortunately they did not.  It still the belief that the PRC should conduct a full study that will provide the financial details of this expansion and determine its effect on the USPS and American businesses.

TPA President David Williams said in a release announcing the video:

“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. 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 of mail delivery.” 

“The USPS is ill equipped to provide such a diverse set of offerings both financially and structurally. 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.” 

The video can be seen below and on TPA’s YouTube page (click here).