My @USPS explainer thread:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📬" title="Open mailbox with raised flag" aria-label="Emoji: Open mailbox with raised flag">Handles 47% world’s mail
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📦" title="Package" aria-label="Emoji: Package">Ships ~150 billion https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✉️" title="Envelope" aria-label="Emoji: Envelope">/yr
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚚" title="Delivery truck" aria-label="Emoji: Delivery truck">Delivers more in 16 days than UPS+FedEx ship combined in a yr
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👩🏾" title="Woman (medium dark skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman (medium dark skin tone)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👦🏼" title="Boy (medium light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Boy (medium light skin tone)">500,000 career employees
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏢" title="Office building" aria-label="Emoji: Office building">31,000 locations

You can send a https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✉️" title="Envelope" aria-label="Emoji: Envelope"> from Key West https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="➡️" title="Rightwards arrow" aria-label="Emoji: Rightwards arrow"> Utqiagvik AK for less than the cost of a candy bar

No surprise then that Americans rank the post office maybe the most popular arm of government. A 2018 Pew poll found 88% of Americans have a positive view of @USPS.

Try to find something else in our government 88% of Americans support.

The post office birthed a 2nd American revolution. USPS precipitated road building & allowed people to fan out across the land. Postal contracts sustained transcontinental https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚂" title="Steam locomotive" aria-label="Emoji: Steam locomotive">. It was the post that got the govt to invest in aviation & birth commercial https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✈️" title="Airplane" aria-label="Emoji: Airplane"> .
https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/default/files/document-library-files/2015/rarc-wp-12-012_0.pdf">https://www.uspsoig.gov/sites/def...

The post has been an agent of upward social mobility. When the US bureaucracy finally desegregated, African Americans joined USPS & by the 1920s made up 15-30% of postal employees. @USPS has been one of the foremost incubators of the black middle class.
https://postalmuseum.si.edu/research-articles/the-history-and-experience-of-african-americans-in-america%E2%80%99s-postal-service">https://postalmuseum.si.edu/research-...

Most Americans don’t know that @USPS receives effectively *no* support from the federal budget.

Forcing USPS to prefund its health care benefits at least *50 years in advance* accounts for almost all its losses since 2006. That& #39;s why USPS is in the red. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-postal-service-is-operating-at-a-profit/2018/04/26/1300cfa6-48b2-11e8-8082-105a446d19b8_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/...

The gop has been sabotaging USPS for decades. The 2006 law was designed to! The House voted 309-106 to repeal but Mcconnell is blocking it.

@USPS will die wo/ immediate help & ending prefunding.

This thread is from my @monthly essay which you should read!
#SaveThePostOffice https://twitter.com/billpascrell/status/1115319444413276167">https://twitter.com/billpascr...