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August 20, 2020 Welcome to this edition of The Reader, a weekly roundup of Fortune stories and insights you need to know.
President Donald Trump has admitted that he is intentionally blocking federal funding to the U.S. Postal Service to discourage the use of mail-in ballots in November's elections.
Meanwhile, rapid changes at the Postal Service are leaving Americans scrambling to figure out what’s happening.
Our reporters have answers. Read on to understand USPS's ongoing existential crisis. Clifton Leaf
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“When the Postal Service was born by act of Congress as an “independent establishment of the executive branch,” both Congress and postal management thought that if the system could be run as a business, it would not only provide better service but would ultimately be self-sustaining, or close to it. It would accomplish these goals through better management and greater efficiency. Like any other well-run business, it would keep a firm rein on costs, and it would eventually charge most mail users the full price of services rendered.
But in its very first attempt to act like a hard-nosed business firm, the system had obviously come a cropper.” —What the Postal Service can't deliver, July 1973 . This email was sent to [email protected] Unsubscribe | Edit your newsletter subscriptions
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