{"id":430747,"date":"2021-04-16T15:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=430747"},"modified":"2021-04-16T15:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:36:22","slug":"the-postal-service-is-awesome-we-love-the-postal-service-aoc-makes-the-progressive-case-for-expanding-the-usps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-postal-service-is-awesome-we-love-the-postal-service-aoc-makes-the-progressive-case-for-expanding-the-usps\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Postal Service Is Awesome! We Love The Postal Service!\u2019: AOC Makes The Progressive Case For Expanding The USPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-postal-service-is-awesome-we-love-the-postal-service-aoc-makes-the-progressive-case-for-expanding-the-usps%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=430747&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2450.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her Democratic colleagues, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Reps. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) and Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), announced a \u201cpostal banking\u201d bill that would expand the United States Postal Service on Thursday. According to Ocasio-Cortez, expanding the services the USPS provides would help urban and rural Americans alike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis issue is particularly meaningful to me; when just three or four years ago I was waitressing in downtown Manhattan and I worked for cash tips and at the end of my shift I would have, you know, $100 in tips or so or after a couple days there would be a couple hundred dollars in cash in my bag and I\u2019d hop on the six train and then I\u2019d go home to my community in the Bronx,\u201d she explained during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez said she lived near a check cashing business while she was a waitress. She now lives around the corner from another one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t tell you how many families I see go in and they can\u2019t afford to be banked. Think about that, how many millions of people in this country that either can\u2019t afford to be banked or struggle to be banked,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd so they\u2019ll show up to a check cashing place. Imagine cashing your stimulus check for $1,400 and having 10% to 20% of that check taken away from you. Those are diapers. That\u2019s baby formula. And that\u2019s food that is taken out of the hands of the families just to cash a check.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the congresswoman, Americans utilize check cashing services because \u201cbanks won\u2019t bank them because it\u2019s not profitable enough to bank certain communities to a level that they need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez said the bill is \u201csimple\u201d and expands the United States Postal Services\u2019 current offerings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you go to [the post office] to mail what you need to mail, to buy stamps, to take a photo or file for your passport, that you\u2019re just able to do a few more things, to wire funds if you need to wire funds, to cash a check. \u201d she explained. \u201d These are very basic things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The congresswoman said Americans would have the ability to pull funds from an ATM \u201cwithout having a <em>bunch<\/em> of money taken out when you\u2019re just going to take out a couple of dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In New York City, where Bodegas are popular, people have the option of withdrawing bills in $5 increments, the congresswoman explained. The downside, however, is the enormous fees associated with the withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine you go to an ATM to take out a $5 increment and they charge you a $3 fee,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said, calling it \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be. And not only that, but the postal service is awesome!\u201d she said. \u201cWe love the postal service! Americans love the postal service. They want to protect the postal service. They want to expand the postal service and this bill does just that, raising over $1 billion in revenue for our postal services so that everyone from our babies to our seniors can continue to enjoy the services they provide.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.2329317269076\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BANKING: Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AOC<\/a> pushes for pilot program for post offices to provide financial services in under-banked communities: &#8220;The Postal Service is awesome. Americans love the Postal Service.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3ikmDy0X72\">pic.twitter.com\/3ikmDy0X72<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Forbes (@Forbes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Forbes\/status\/1382766925458001920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gillibrand said expanding the agency\u2019s services to include banking services \u201ccould generate $1.1 billion in additional revenue for USPS annually after five years,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gillibrand.senate.gov\/news\/press\/release\/senators-gillibrand-and-sanders-representatives-ocasio-cortez-pascrell-and-kaptur-call-on-congress-to-implement-postal-banking-pilot-programs-\">letter<\/a> to the Senate Financial Services Subcommittee chairman and ranking member indicate.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate version of the bill that Gillibrand is co-sponsoring would allocate $6 million \u201cfor a pilot program to test whether a non-profit bank located in a post office would benefit customers in underserved communities,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/news\/local\/senator-kirsten-gillibrand-calls-for-postal-banking-pilot-program\/71-fa13ef75-f246-4629-ab37-1b34505e379f\">WGRZ-TV<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The USPS continues to hemorrhage money on an annual basis. According to a General Accountability Officer (GAO) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/highrisk\/usps-financial-viability#:~:text=USPS&#039;s%20quarterly%20and%20annual%20financial,webcasts%20on%20its%20financial%20results.\">report<\/a>, the agency lost a total of \u201c$87 billion over the last 14 fiscal years \u2013 including $9.2 billion in fiscal years 2020.\u201d The agency expects to lose an additional \u201c$9.7 billion in fiscal year 2021,\u201d despite a $2 billion increase in revenue and an uptick in package deliveries due to the pandemic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/adamandrzejewski\/2021\/02\/20\/why-the-us-post-office-is-in-trouble--678539-employees-and-a-92-billion-loss-in-2020\/?sh=6fbc9580314e\">Forbes<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her Democratic colleagues, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Reps. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) and Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), announced a \u201cpostal banking\u201d bill that would expand the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312332,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2450.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018The Postal Service Is Awesome! 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