Finders Keepers
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🗓️ 22 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Welcome to the Finders Keepers episode of Sleep Money, your guide to the Business and Finance |
| 0:19.2 | News of the Week. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck of Huffpost. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello! I'm here with Anna Shimansky of Breaking Views. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello. We are going to talk about the post office this week because honestly who is not talking about the post office this week? |
| 0:37.6 | We are going to talk about shopping and whether it's all going online and what that means, we are going to talk about one of the |
| 0:47.1 | craziest lawsuits that I have seen in a while involving Revlon of all people. We are even going to have a Sleep Plus episode about productivity |
| 0:55.6 | but the one thing I want to ask you is to just stay tuned until the end or if you have to fast forward |
| 1:01.2 | until the end because I have a question for you all after the |
| 1:04.9 | numbers round which I want you to write in with your answer. |
| 1:08.2 | That is coming up on sleep money. |
| 1:12.3 | So let's talk about the post office. |
| 1:14.0 | There are big hearings going on right now, |
| 1:17.0 | and everyone thinks that it is facing existential threats |
| 1:21.0 | and people aren't sending as many mail letters and it's losing billions |
| 1:26.1 | of dollars and this is a problem and Emily bring me up to speed well it's kind of a |
| 1:31.6 | mess Felix basically this new guy came to run the post office named |
| 1:37.0 | Louis de Joy. He is a Trump donor who used to work at this company called XPO Logistics and before that |
| 1:44.0 | owned his own logistics company. Anyway, he is doing a lot of cost-cutting stuff |
| 1:50.6 | that people don't like that was underway before he even |
| 1:54.0 | started which was only like 70 days ago and the cost cutting stuff is reducing |
| 1:59.3 | the amount of overtime post office workers can take and removing these mail sorting machines and all |
| 2:04.9 | this is happening as the president is out there decrying mail-in voting and sort of |
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