UPS, FedEx Delays Force Deep State Insiders To Fast-Track Sale of USPS

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According to Epoch Times, whose headline is much less controversial: Supply Chain Disruptions Force White House To Ask Walmart, UPS, FedEx To Increase Output Carriers of goods including Walmart, UPS, and FedEx are moving to work more shifts—including 24 hours per day, seven days per week—to address global supply disruptions that have contributed to a surge in inflation, the White House said Wednesday. The update was announced ahead of President Joe Biden’s meeting with the heads of Walmart, FedEx, and UPS to address the supply chain bottlenecks before the Christmas season. According to a fact sheet released by the administration, Walmart said it would “increase its use of night-time hours significantly and projects they could increase throughput by as much as 50 percent over the next several weeks.” Meanwhile, UPS said it would commit to use 24/7 operations “and enhanced data sharing with the ports” to move more containers out of ports, said the White House. And FedEx, the fact sheet said, will “work to combine an increase in nighttime hours with changes to trucking and rail use to increase the volume of containers it will move from the ports.” UPS and FedEx combined shipped approximately 40 percent of U.S. packages by volume in 2020, the White House said. A White House official told news outlets on Wednesday that FedEx, UPS, and Walmart will move toward a 24/7 working schedule. “Across these six companies over 3,500 additional containers per week will move at night through the end of the year,” said the fact sheet. “Those boxes contain toys, appliances, bicycles, and furniture that Americans purchased online or at their local small business, and pieces and parts that are sent to U.S. factories for our workers to assemble into products.” Additionally, the Port of Los Angeles will move to 24/7 service, coming after the Port of Long Beach began similar operations several weeks ago, officials said. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union also made a commitment to staffing 24/7, meaning that it will double the “hours that cargo will be able to move out of its docks and on highways,” according to the White House. The supply crisis is driven in part by the global COVID-19 pandemic and potential vaccine mandates, as sales of durable goods jumped amid worker shortages and transportation hub slowdowns. Lower-than-expected Christmas sales could hurt U.S. companies and pose a political risk for Biden. Thousands of shipping containers are on cargo ships offshore waiting to be offloaded at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Similar backlogs exist at ports in New York and Savannah, Georgia. A shortage of warehouse workers and truck drivers to pick up goods is another reason for the bottlenecks. But the real question remains. Let's pretend that the United States is a human body. Why would the body's brain outsource the transportation of blood, oxygen, nutrients, and, most important of all, information - feedback - all of which it depends upon, for existence and growth, to a totally independent third party, when it has a perfectly good nervous and circulatory system of its own? Postal services in the United States are adequate for most domestic and business communications, provided one does not mind thinking ahead and dispatching someone to the post office. Postal services have been adequate for decades. Why, I remember when I was a kid, in the 1960s, my grandmother used to send us packages, in Arizona, from Connecticut, 3000 miles away, and they generally arrived in three or four days. Grandma also used to send us packages via Greyhound. It took about the same amount of time. (The cookies arrived as hard as a bone and as dry as a rock, but they were still full of love, you'll be happy to know, and were delicious with milk. Thank you, Grandma! But I digress.) Third-party delivery services make most of their money doing overnight and delivering stuff to the customers so they don't need to go to the post office - but they charge extra for it, too. It's a cut-throat business and these third-party competitors would be happy to cut the throat of the United States Postal Service if they could. For this specific reason the United States government should not allow itself to become dependent upon these organizations... never mind, empower them with rights, as if they were human beings. The simplest way to guarantee the survival of the United States Post Office is to make the use of third-party messenger agencies for government communications, grounds for termination of employment and loss of benefits. This solves two problems at once - it secures United States government communications from interception by third-party contractors, and it also infuses the USPS with a steady flow of predictably discounted income derived from providing a predictable level of service to a predictable set of customers for a predictable period of time in the future. This ain't rocket science. You don't need to be fuckin' Benjamin Franklin to understand this. The current crop of legislators are all in the pocket of Big Business and need to be forcibly removed. Food for thought.