Yesterday DeJoy announced big cuts to 1st class mail delivery and instead of all hands on deck to stop him, a few Twit Yappers got on the Twit to yap about how bad it would be for the country and yet today he announced his done deal policies.
Here is the DONE DEAL. Could slow mail? Count on it.
that the Democrats will restore the USPS, even if they win both houses and the White House? They seems to be signaling that there won’t be any money for much of anything.
I doubt that they will go after DeJoy for his wanton destruction of Postal property such as the sorting machines and collection boxes. Nor will they use existing federal statutes to prosecute him for tampering with the mail.
Something/Someone Old
This is pretty cool. Take a look at the oldest post office:
Public Policy is not a business plan.
Public Policy is often at odds with the profit driven rigors and regiment of a business plan.
While talking to a friend on FB who hammered Bernie & Hillary for the "Free Shit" of college and medicine for all citizens and another who came in with the business plan trope to support it, it hit me.
I started with the question:
Martha published an intriguing essay on how our local Post offices could help lead the way into resiliency for our local communities.
http://caucus99percent.com/content/resilience-let-post-offices-lead-way
She challenged us to a thought experiment on how to make this vision practical. So last night I did a back-of-the-napkin sketch of a plan for making the vision practical. As usual, I babbled on endlessly :=) I post it here as a departure point for a c99 brainstorming session on transforming our Post Offices from the ground up.
See, what little public thinking there is about revitalizing our Post Offices after decades of corporatist kneecapping, is all about the national vision. We all know that top-down revitalization is nevah gonna happen. Unless, unless, we the people begin to transform our local PO branches from the ground up, beginning in our local communities - neighbourhoods, suburbs, villages, rural towns, small towns. So how would we do it? Where would we start? Let me show you below.
How Canada Post can deliver community power to the new green economy
Could we turn 6,300 post offices into community hubs?
