Solutions and next steps in saving the U.S. postal service

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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Talk Show, News, Npr, Daily, On Point

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This year, Congress actually came up with a solution to help the U.S. Postal Service. A bipartisan bill passed that's the biggest financial reform of the Post office in 20 years. What's been fixed? Jacob Bogage and Paul Steidler join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:18.9	This is on point.
0:23.3	I'm Megna Chocrobardi.
0:25.1	The United States Postal Service is America's favorite
0:28.3	federal agency.
0:29.8	That's according to Gallup, their most recent poll back in 2019,
0:34.0	found that 74% of Americans viewed the Postal Service's job
0:38.5	performance as excellent or good.
0:41.8	Now over the course of the pandemic,
0:43.5	the Postal Service proved how essential its services actually
0:47.1	are, delivering 320 million COVID-19 test kits
0:51.3	and helping more than 40% of American voters vote by mail
0:56.0	in the 2020 presidential election.
0:59.0	Also in the summer of 2020, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy,
1:03.1	a prolific donor to the Trump campaign,
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