Congress's bi-partisan USPS overhaul law

[JEDI]

What the new USPS overhaul law means for you | CNN Politics

President Joe Biden signed a new law that will overhaul the US Postal Service's finances and allow the agency to modernize its service. The Postal Service Reform Act enjoyed a rare wave of bipartisan support in the House and Senate.

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I knew about dropping a previous mandate that forced the agency to cover its health care costs years in advance.
I didn't know about requiring retired postal employees to enroll in Medicare when eligible.

That's going to cost postal employees, i think.

If they're like normal govt employees, they didnt have any $ taken from their paychecks for medicare or social security.
My understanding is that normal govt employees have to pay for Medicare Part A out of pocket: https://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare/medicare/
(Private sector employees that paid at least 10yrs into medicare get Part A for free for life starting at Age 65.)

 

[Lezunto]

I recall the days when the USPS had to pre-pay its pension obligations out of its annual profits. Finally, common sense delivered by our post office.

 

[fskimospy]

What the new USPS overhaul law means for you | CNN Politics

President Joe Biden signed a new law that will overhaul the US Postal Service's finances and allow the agency to modernize its service. The Postal Service Reform Act enjoyed a rare wave of bipartisan support in the House and Senate.

www.cnn.com

I knew about dropping a previous mandate that forced the agency to cover its health care costs years in advance.
I didn't know about requiring retired postal employees to enroll in Medicare when eligible.

That's going to cost postal employees, i think.

If they're like normal govt employees, they didnt have any $ taken from their paychecks for medicare or social security.
My understanding is that normal govt employees have to pay for Medicare Part A out of pocket: https://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare/medicare/
(Private sector employees that paid at least 10yrs into medicare get Part A for free for life starting at Age 65.)

Federal employees have money deducted for both social security and medicare. That used to not be the case but changed a long time ago, like in the 80's.

 

[brycejones]

I recall the days when the USPS had to pre-pay its pension obligations out of its annual profits. Finally, common sense delivered by our congress.

FTFY

 

[Sunburn74]

Honestly I'm glad to see the post office and the IRS finally get the funding to do their jobs. The fact that no one is talking more about funding the IRS is really stunning to me given how big a deal it is. These are major wins for Biden and they really should be putting them on every billboard, tv ad, newspaper they can. "We're coming after the billionaires so that your schoolkids can finally get the textbooks they need" or something like that

 

[dank69]

How long before DeJoy is out?

 

[nakedfrog]

Honestly I'm glad to see the post office and the IRS finally get the funding to do their jobs. The fact that no one is talking more about funding the IRS is really stunning to me given how big a deal it is. These are major wins for Biden and they really should be putting them on every billboard, tv ad, newspaper they can. "We're coming after the billionaires so that your schoolkids can finally get the textbooks they need" or something like that

Can't have too much light shed on things this administration is getting done or people might start to think the Demonrats aren't all that bad.

 

[pcgeek11]

Excellent, they have finally done something about the screwed up USPS Pension Plan.

 

[pcgeek11]

Can't have too much light shed on things this administration is getting done or people might start to think the Demonrats aren't all that bad.

I think this was a highly Bipartisan bill.

 

[MrSquished]

I think this was a highly Bipartisan bill.

Well these days a highly bipartisan bill usually means 10-12 GQP Senators and all Dems.

 

[pcgeek11]

Well these days a highly bipartisan bill usually means 10-12 GQP Senators and all Dems.

Senate Vote
Yea - 79
Nay - 19
No Vote - 2

House Vote
Yea - 342
Nay - 92
Present - 0
No Vote - 0

 

[ivwshane]

So what changed? Why did republicans decide to help pass this bill?

I didn’t even know this was being worked on, Biden is seriously getting some shit done!

 

[dank69]

So what changed? Why did republicans decide to help pass this bill?

I didn’t even know this was being worked on, Biden is seriously getting some shit done!

All the people who usually pay off Republicans to block this stuff are busy with more pressing issues?

 

[nakedfrog]

I think this was a highly Bipartisan bill.

And? It's still something getting accomplished under Biden's administration, and some folks would have you believe nothing positive is getting done.

 

[Moonbeam]

And? It's still something getting accomplished under Biden's administration, and some folks would have you believe nothing positive is getting done.

I don't see how it isn't a pure Trump win. He is the Republican Party and nothing gets done without Republican votes so anything that gets done is a Republican accomplishment. You are just spinning.

 

[hal2kilo]

Honestly I'm glad to see the post office and the IRS finally get the funding to do their jobs. The fact that no one is talking more about funding the IRS is really stunning to me given how big a deal it is. These are major wins for Biden and they really should be putting them on every billboard, tv ad, newspaper they can. "We're coming after the billionaires so that your schoolkids can finally get the textbooks they need" or something like that

You haven't watch any Fox news then. They are apoplectic about it, 24/7. Claims they are just going to go after little old you and me.

 

[Sunburn74]

I think this was a highly Bipartisan bill.

The GOP during their recent time in power had Dejoy on Capitol hill begging for more funding and they shut him down. The same for the IRS director. Really hard to give the GOP credit for this. At best a few are jumping on the bandwagon. The closest thing to the GOPs official position is that mail should be privatized and mostly run by for profit companies like FedEx and UPS with the government uninvolved. Maybe you disagree with that as policy but it was more or less the direction the GOP leadership wanted to take things.

 

[pcgeek11]

The GOP during their recent time in power had Dejoy on Capitol hill begging for more funding and they shut him down. The same for the IRS director. Really hard to give the GOP credit for this. At best a few are jumping on the bandwagon. The closest thing to the GOPs official position is that mail should be privatized and mostly run by for profit companies like FedEx and UPS with the government uninvolved. Maybe you disagree with that as policy but it was more or less the direction the GOP leadership wanted to take things.

Senate Vote
Yea - 79
Nay - 19
No Vote - 2

House Vote
Yea - 342
Nay - 92
Present - 0
No Vote - 0

 

[Zorba]

I think this was a highly Bipartisan bill.

Doesn't mean Biden can't list it as an accomplishment. This had been an issue through 4 presidents and now it's finally fixed.

 

[rommelrommel]

You haven't watch any Fox news then. They are apoplectic about it, 24/7. Claims they are just going to go after little old you and me.

All 84000 of them will be ex-delta special ops pipehitters too. Judge Dredd audits for anyone above 25k a year income.

 

[Lezunto]

The situation with USPS finances began when certain folks in Congress at the behest of lobbyists for UPS and FedEx began pushing to handicap their main opposition with this pre-funding nonsense.

It worked, USPS had little money to invest in new technologies, replace its aging delivery fleet and modernize its operations.

Louis De Joy did nothing at the USPS but try to help Trump win the 2020 election. He removed or disabled sorting machines and ordered employees to slow down the mail. All in an effort to deep-six mail balloting.

He also opposed the purchase of electric vehicles and wanted to end Saturday deliveries. Elderly folks and shut-ins depend on the postal service for more than just letters. Many receive prescription medicine by mail.

It appears Biden now has a majority on the postal board, so De Joy can be mailed home.

 

[hal2kilo]

All 84000 of them will be ex-delta special ops pipehitters too. Judge Dredd audits for anyone above 25k a year income.

On Fox I watched a Biden friendly economic adviser who I've seem several times before, have to talk over Cabuto about how its limited to filers over $400k a year. He added that they are really looking for people way over 400k because that's where most of the cheating and money is. As I said he practically had to over talk Cabuto through most of the interview, but he managed to get the message across.

 

[dlerious]

Federal employees have money deducted for both social security and medicare. That used to not be the case but changed a long time ago, like in the 80's.

Looks like 1987 when they switched from CSRS to FERS. According to this, they didn't pay social security but paid Medicare tax.

CSRS Information

Welcome to opm.gov

www.opm.gov

 

[rommelrommel]

On Fox I watched a Biden friendly economic adviser who I've seem several times before, have to talk over Cabuto about how its limited to filers over $400k a year. He added that they are really looking for people way over 400k because that's where most of the cheating and money is. As I said he practically had to over talk Cabuto through most of the interview, but he managed to get the message across.

It’s obvious to anyone that isn’t disingenuous that you can’t make more money by hiring 70k a year staff to squeeze people over a few hundred bucks of tax evasion.

So I can see why the republicans are against staffing the IRS properly.

 

[FelixDeCat]

How long before DeJoy is out?

He was the only person who got the mail delivered on time. The worthless liberals and the stupid postal union have always tried to make it as hard as possible to get the job done.