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The US Postal Service is Americans' most popular agency, far more than the National Park Service and NASA. Pew Research Center survey last year found 90% of the public had favorable view of USPS. It's easy to to see why as Marshall has referenced above but would add that many senior citizens and other Americans, often living in rural areas, get their prescriptions and medical supplies delivered by the Post Office. Higher delivery costs and uncertain delivery would be devastating for them.

Conservatives never seem to stop pushing for privatizing our mail service even though that would mean lousy service and huge price increases. I don't doubt they want to get their hands on postal workers' pension money. It's not like they haven't meddled with other government workers' pension benefits before.

Postmaster General Megan Brennan since 2015, a 33 year veteran of USPS is retiring this month. Trump harassed her continually over USPS deficits and the fees charged for Amazon deliveries. Amazon, FedEx, etc. rely on USPS to deliver their packages to even the most remote, hard to navigate destination. A top Republican fundraiser and trump ally, Louis DeJoy, is set to become the new Postmaster General.

Trump claims Amazon gets "sweetheart" deals but also told reporters, "The Post Office should raise the price of package delivery four times. Journalist Kevin Drum went on USPS website and got a price sending a one pound package at retail ground rates from CA to NY, $9.35, 4 times that would be $37.40.

Trump has had a vendetta against Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, for a long time. He really, really wants to hurt Bezos. One reason is that Bezos owns Washington Post. I doubt trump could hurt Bezos much as he is worth something like $145 Billion but trump has been in a jealous rage that Bezos is far, far more wealthy than he is.

Then there is the vote by mail issue. A majority of Americans favor changing law to allow everyone to vote by mail and certainly wouldn't want to have delays in mail delivery. I can't imagine anyone wouldn't want to vote by mail especially now during a pandemic, wearing masks, standing in line for who knows how long trying to stay a safe distance from others. Oh wait, that happened in Wisconsin judge election recently with WI Republican legislators pushing hard against vote by mail. Far less WI polling stations because many poll workers didn't want to be exposed to Covid-19 and there appears to have been more people testing positive after voting in person.

Trump said "mail in voting is a terrible thing...corrupt...I think you vote, you should go." He also said there's "tremendous potential for voter fraud and for whatever reason, doesn't work out well for Republicans." Experts say voter fraud involving mail-in is rare. Somehow trump is convinced that mail-in voting benefits Democrats. That makes no logical sense unless he is afraid he'd lose if every eligible to vote American did vote. Trump said all this after he voted by mail in March Florida GOP primary.