All roads lead to Putin;destroying the Post office benefits the Russian Mafia, case in point Ukraine in 1930s, when depopulation was a strategic goal
It is not appreciated but the founding of the Post Office predates the US war of Independence ,i.e. in 1775, and was instrumental in setting up the filaments of US Nation hood, at a time when the Colonies in the Eastern Seaboard had first claim, initially to allegiance of their populations, i.e. see it here as to the statement of this organization
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Louis J. Giuliano
Chairman, Board of Governors
To the President, members of Congress, postal customers, postal employees, and the American people:
This past year has been a pivotal one for the U.S. Postal Service, as we have set about the ambitious task of turning a financial crisis of significant proportions into an equally sizable opportunity. While we continued to contend with the significant marketplace and financial challenges that began with the 2008 economic recession, in this past year we took significant steps to lay the foundation for an historic redirection for the organization.
Our work began in earnest early in the fiscal year by asking fundamental questions about trends in America’s use of the mail, and what the future holds for our business. We commissioned independent projections and analyses, which described a marketplace increasingly migrating to digital means of communication, a steady decline in mail volumes through 2020, and a less profitable mix of mail in coming years. Indeed, without significant productivity improvements and changes to our current business model, the Postal Service could face a cumulative $238 billion shortfall in the coming decade.
Our response to this challenge was to set forth an aggressive and balanced plan that envisions significant changes to our business model, enables the Postal Service to continue to play its vital role in the American economy, and our communities, and to deliver great value to business and residential customers. We also committed to engaging the American people in a dialogue about our plan and our future.
We began this dialogue in early March, when we released: Ensuring a Viable Postal Service for America: An Action Plan for the Future. This document set out our goals for cost-cutting, increased productivity, product and service offerings, and identified legislative and regulatory changes necessary to ensure our future viability and a return to profitability. Most importantly, it set the foundation for a more competitive, market-responsive organization, better able to meet the evolving mailing needs of the American people.
Since March, we have continued to communicate about our plan, and we have made meaningful progress in a number of areas.
- We asked Congress to examine our retiree health benefits pre-funding obligations and to consider legislation to address overpayments to the Postal Service’s Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension fund. Restructuring retiree health benefits payments to the “pay-as-you-go” method used by the rest of government and the private sector would result in an average of $5.65 billion in additional cash flow each year through 2016. Likewise, transfer of the excess CSRS contributions to the health benefits fund could significantly reduce, or offset entirely, future pre-funding requirements.
- We submitted a filing with the Postal Regulatory Commission, seeking an advisory ruling on a five-day delivery schedule to better reflect current mail volumes and customer usage. Survey data show that the public supports a five-day delivery schedule to strengthen the finances of the Postal Service.
- We implemented a strategy to modernize our retail network while expanding access to postal products and services. Increasing and enhancing customer access through partnerships with retailers, use of kiosks and self-serve options in high-traffic areas, and improved online offerings will allow us to provide more convenient and efficient service for our customers.
- We have taken steps to establish a more flexible workforce that is better-positioned to respond to changing demand patterns and to ensure we have the right people in the right place for optimal efficiency. We have engaged in this year’s labor negotiations with this goal in mind, and have every confidence that, together, we can better position the organization for the future.
- We sought to increase prices for our Mailing Services products using the exigency provision of the Postal Act of 2006. Although the request was denied, we will continue to seek the authority to price our products appropriately in the marketplace.
- We expanded our array of products and services. We continued to build on the success of our Priority Mail Flat Rate shipping campaign by introducing additional flat-rate products and enhancing successful Standard Mail initiatives like seasonal incentives.
- We continue to seek greater flexibility in our current oversight structure to improve our speed to market through a streamlined price and product approval process.
- We continued an aggressive pace of cost-cutting. Building on record savings of more than $1 billion every year since 2001 and reducing our total costs by $3 billion in 2010, on top of the $6 billion in savings achieved last year.
The first steps in a new direction are often the hardest, and success tomorrow depends upon our willingness as an industry to take those initial risks today. We are committed to our vision of a more nimble, competitive and financially sound Postal Service, an organization that will endure as a cornerstone of American society, providing unparalleled service through “snow, rain, heat and gloom of night” for generations to come.
“Since March, we have continued to communicate about our plan, and we have made meaningful progress in a number of areas.”
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This contradicts the Russian Mafia generated meme that the US Postal service is a dinosaur, i.e. the mission statement as to what it is trying to do, is to act as a unifier of the nation, in spite of the financial devastation willed upon it by Donald Trump.
Now to get to the main point, let us revisit in detail what was said earlier:
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Important. Postal services are directly linked to Homeland security. See this link in the article. I.e. the National Infrastructure Protection Plan
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Andrew Beckwith
Editor at JHEPGC, Associate Editor in Galaxies, and Visiting Professor in Chongqing University
Why this is so important. While the generic postal services are badly misunderstood by the public, as indicated in the quoted section of the link it so happens that the Postal and Shipping Sector is one of 18 critical infrastructure sectors established under the authority of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 (HSPD-7).
Someone, not named Trump got it as to how serious the business of transportation of essential goods is considered for defense of the nation, especially when there is an out of the blue level crack up of the nation which is now occurring due to the Conavirus
IMO it is beyond insane that Trump has prioritized disrupting services which are defacto covered in HSPD-7 , and the question is why.
See this, i.e.
https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/nppd/nppd-ip-postal-and-shipping-snapshot-2011.pdf
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National Infrastructure Protection Plan Postal and Shipping Sector The Postal and Shipping Sector is one of 18 critical infrastructure sectors established under the authority of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 7 (HSPD-7). Each sector is managed by a Sector-Specific Agency (SSA) that provides sector-level performance feedback to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to enable assessment of national, cross-sector critical infrastructure protection and resilience programs. In accordance with the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), each SSA is responsible for developing and implementing a Sector-Specific Plan (SSP), in collaboration with public and private sector partners, and for encouraging the development of appropriate information-sharing and analysis mechanisms.
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The fact is, that as stated yesterday, the mission of the USPS is directly integral to Homeland security, to the filaments of the Continuance of Government plans put in place to actually reconstitute the nation in case the Civilian sector of the US government collapses, and also is from a historical stand point integral to holding the US CONUS mass together. A little more of that in the next paragraph.
In the 1820s even after the Thomas Jefferson extension of US territory into the Great Plains of the N. American continent, due to his 1803 doubling in US territory due to the item brought up next
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Louisiana Purchase
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July 4 1803• Disestablished
- October 1 1804Preceded bySucceeded byLouisiana (New France)District of LouisianaTerritory of OrleansToday part of United States
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi (2,140,000 km2; 530,000,000 acres). However, France only controlled a small fraction of this area, with most of it inhabited by Native Americans; for the majority of the area, what the United States bought was the "preemptive" right to obtain Native American lands by treaty or by conquest, to the exclusion of other colonial powers.[1][2] The total cost of all subsequent treaties and financial settlements over the land has been estimated to be around 2.6 billion dollars.[1][2]
The Kingdom of France had controlled the Louisiana territory from 1699 until it was ceded to Spain in 1762. In 1800, Napoleon, then the First Consul of the French Republic, regained ownership of Louisiana as part of a broader project to re-establish a French colonial empire in North America. However, France's failure to put down a revolt in Saint-Domingue, coupled with the prospect of renewed warfare with the United Kingdom, prompted Napoleon to consider selling Louisiana to the United States. Acquisition of Louisiana was a long-term goal of President Thomas Jefferson, who was especially eager to gain control of the crucial Mississippi River port of New Orleans. Jefferson tasked James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston with purchasing New Orleans. Negotiating with French Treasury Minister François Barbé-Marbois (who was acting on behalf of Napoleon), the American representatives quickly agreed to purchase the entire territory of Louisiana after it was offered. Overcoming the opposition of the Federalist Party, Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison convinced Congress to ratify and fund the Louisiana Purchase.
The Louisiana Purchase extended United States sovereignty across the Mississippi River, nearly doubling the nominal size of the country. The purchase included land from fifteen present U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, including the entirety of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; large portions of North Dakota and South Dakota; the area of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide; the portion of Minnesota west of the Mississippi River; the northeastern section of New Mexico; northern portions of Texas; New Orleans and the portions of the present state of Louisiana west of the Mississippi River; and small portions of land within the present Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. At the time of the purchase, the territory of Louisiana's non-native population was around 60,000 inhabitants, of whom half were African slaves.[3] The western borders of the purchase were later settled by the 1819 Adams–Onís Treaty with Spain, while the northern borders of the purchase were adjusted by the Treaty of 1818 with Britain.
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This section of N. America was generically called the GREAT AMERICAN desert and was considered for decades to be impassible and strategically a liability by many who railed against Jefferson as to acquiring worthless territory
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Great American Desert
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"Great American Desert," mapped by Stephen H. Long in 1820
Historic photo of the High Plains in Haskell County, Kansas, showing a treeless semi-arid grassland and a buffalo wallow or circular depression in the level surface. (Photo by W.D. Johnson, 1897) [1]
The term Great American Desert was used in the 19th century to describe the western part of the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains in North America to about the 100th meridian.[2] It can be traced to the 1820 Stephen H. Long's scientific expedition which put the Great American Desert on the map.[3][4]
The area is now usually referred to as the High Plains, and the original term is now sometimes used to describe the arid region of North America, which includes parts of northwestern Mexico and the American southwest.
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- 1The concept of "desert"
- 2Settlement and development
- 3In popular culture
- 4See also
- 5References
- 6Further reading
- 7External links
The concept of "desert"[edit]
In colonial times, the term "desert" was often used to describe treeless or uninhabited lands whether they were arid or not. By the 19th century, the term had begun to take on its modern meaning. It was long thought that treeless lands were not good for agriculture; thus the term "desert" also had the connotation of "unfit for farming". While the High Plains are not a desert in the modern sense, in this older sense of the word they were. The region is mostly semi-arid grassland and steppe. Today much of the region supports agriculture through the use of aquifer water irrigation. But in the 19th century, the area's relative lack of water and wood made it seem unfit for farming and uninhabitable by an agriculturally based people.[5]
When the region was obtained by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Jefferson wrote of the "immense and trackless deserts" of the region. Zebulon Pike wrote "these vast plains of the western hemisphere, may become in time equally celebrated as the sandy deserts of Africa". His map included a comment in the region, "not a stick of timber".[6] In 1823, Major Stephen Long, a government surveyor and leader of the next official exploration expedition, produced a map labeling the area as the "Great American Desert."[7] In the report that accompanied the map, the party's geographer Edwin James wrote of the region:
I do not hesitate in giving the opinion, that it is almost wholly unfit for cultivation, and of course, uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence. Although tracts of fertile land considerably extensive are occasionally to be met with, yet the scarcity of wood and water, almost uniformly prevalent, will prove an insuperable obstacle in the way of settling the country.[6]
While many other travelers reported similar conditions and conclusions, there were problems in the interpretation and the use of the word "desert". By the 19th century, the word had begun to assume its modern sense, evoking images of sandy wastelands. Yet descriptions of the American High Plains almost always included comments about "Innumerable Herds of Buffaloes", which was written on Pike's map just above "not a stick of timber". The giant herds and teeming wildlife of the Great Plains were well known by the time the term Great American Desert came into common use, undermining the idea of a wasteland; however, the relevant concept inherent in the reports of the region was that it could not be farmed, something the reports generally agreed on. By the middle of the 19th century, as settlers migrated across the plains to Oregon and California, the wasteland connotation of "desert" was seen to be false, but the sense of the region as uninhabitable remained until irrigation, railroad transportation, and barbed wire made up for the lack of surface water and wood.
Settlement and development[edit]
The region's relative lack of water and wood affected the development of the United States. Settlers heading westward often attempted to pass through the region as quickly as possible en route to what was considered to be better land farther west. These early settlers gave telling names to the various streams of the region, such as "Sweetwater Creek" or "Poison Creek". Because it was not considered desirable, the area became one of the last strongholds of independent American Indians. Railroad interests seeking rights-of-way through the region also benefited from the popular belief that the land was commercially valueless.
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This area of territory was considered a negative, until the US postal service, by entering the area largely facilitated its development in the 19th century
As of today, the US Postal service, connects literally thousands of small towns to mid sized cities in the central part of the USA . And to put it mildly if these are cut off, via dismantlement of the Post office, these settlements would be largely defenseless in the face of man made disasters and societal collapse
But societal collapse does have a 20th century cache. I.e. in the 1930s, the Ukraine had almost half of its population nearly killed or so badly weakened as to not be able to contribute to any meaningful economic activity:
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Holodomor
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Holodomor
The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомо́р; Голодомо́р в Украї́ні;[a][2] derived from морити голодом, "to kill by starvation")[3][4][5] was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. It is also known as the Terror-Famine and Famine-Genocide in Ukraine,[6][7][8] and sometimes referred to as the Great Famine[9] or the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932–33.[10] It was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1932–33, which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country. During the Holodomor, millions of inhabitants of Ukraine, the majority of whom were ethnic Ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine.[11] Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by Ukraine[12] and 15 other countries as a genocide of the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet government.[13]
Early estimates of the death toll by scholars and government officials varied greatly.[14] According to higher estimates, up to 12 million[15] ethnic Ukrainians were said to have perished as a result of the famine. A U.N. joint statement signed by 25 countries in 2003 declared that 7–10 million perished.[16] Research has since narrowed the estimates to between 3.3[17] and 7.5[18] million. According to the findings of the Court of Appeal of Kiev in 2010, the demographic losses due to the famine amounted to 10 million, with 3.9 million direct famine deaths, and a further 6.1 million birth deficits.[19]
The term Holodomor emphasises the famine's man-made and intentional aspects, such as rejection of outside aid, confiscation of all household foodstuffs, and restriction of population movement. Whether the Holodomor was genocide is still the subject of academic debate, as are the causes of the famine and intentionality of the deaths. Some scholars believe that the famine was planned by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement.[11][20][21] The loss of life has been compared to that of the Holocaust.[22][23][24][25]
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We have seen Trump and this under instruction from the Kremlin do everything possible to have the Cornavirus ravage the interior of N. America, so he can have a Polmenkin style fake economy to run to an election victory, with Maga rallies in all of N. America, non withstanding that maybe up to 30 million Americans would die, as collateral damage so Trump could rule supreme in 2021, even if N. America was almost completely destroyed in CONUS especially by the CONAVIRUS. And to have Senator Johnson and the Evangelicals crow that Trump is doing Gods work, even in the face of millions of deaths.
The aim of destroying the interior of America will be made greatly easier if the USPS is removed from rural areas in CONUS, so as to facilitate the isolation of much of the rural area available for virus spreading and biowar style attacks. As it is, I stated before and will restate again that restarting the US economy by MAY 1st would be in syncronization with Putins strategic use of death to open up virgin territory for the Russian Mafia to expropriate in N. America for their descendents.
As an aftermath of the Hormordor in the Ukraine,Russian settlers descended upon the Domblass area of Ukraine to liberate devastated territories denuded of their original inhabitants , and did it with the approval of Stalin as an early 20 century . Alexandra Chalupa, who has talked to me about this very point, is a descendant of Ukrainians who fled from Ukraine territory right in the aftermath of the Hormodor, and she can be, if people wanted to talked to about the hell on Earth situation the Ukraine went through.
As it is, as of TODAY, Trump has reversed his Cornavirus Pandemic generating and worse demands for re opening the heartland of America, but this only after MASSIVE protests.
See this
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Trump tells governors to ‘call your own shots’ on re-opening — in massive reversal of previous stance
Published 2 mins ago on April 16, 2020
President Donald Trump backed down on his claim that he was in charge of the re-opening of America during a Thursday conference call with the nation’s 50 governors.
“President Trump told governors that some could begin reopening their states by May 1 or earlier if they wanted to, but backed down from his confrontation with them by making it clear that he would not seek to impose his will on when they reopen businesses, schools and everyday life,” The New York Times reports.
“You’re going to call your own shots,” Trump said.
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I predict that disappointed Russian Mafia figures will force Trump to go back to his earlier stance favoring hyper expansion of areas ravaged by the Conavirus and to do it, so the Russian Mafia can annex the assets of murdered by the Cornavirus Americans so as to have springtime for Hitler (as the Germans viewed German settlement of ruined Slavic lands in the 1940s), but in any case, Chalupa can tell those who are interested about the appalling loss of life her Grandparents saw which lead to their evacuation from the lands of their birth. And yes the Russian Mafia has a similar goal in place after having the Conavirus devastate CONUS, Alaska and Hawaii.
I.e. the 1930s was the starting gun of the mass ethnic cleaning programs which reshaped whole nation states. Russia, as a result of such hideous ethnic cleansing lost MILLIONS of people, as did the Ukraine which lost from about 1930 to 1950 40% of its population. A whole area the size and complexity of France , i.e. the Modern Ukraine, was for a time completely RUINED.
Those who went through this trauma, will never forget it. How can they?
Their descendents, i.e. many of which are in the Russian Mafia , wishes to use the same tool upon the USA, and the first step in readying this sort of massacre if it happens would be to destroy the US postal service in the Central Plains USA, as to isolate helpless US communities for bioware mayhem. Chalupa is a descendant of those who went through this hell on Earth experience is ready to impart to those who wish to learn the savage history of Eastern Europe due to this unnecessary killing spree
But this does not have to hold for North America. We can stop it.
It is time for you, John Q. Public to say no to this. And the first step to saying no is to stop Trump and GOP members enamored as of the Kremlin, from destroying the US post office.
Andrew Beckwith, PhD