In a special report on the Fox News channel on Wednesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Rutnick said that post offices will lose money, but instead of hiring additional people to do that, postal services can be saved, saying that postal services can be saved by saving money by running a census instead of hiring additional people to do so.
host Brett Baier asked. [relevant remarks begin around 11:10] “The US postal service is based on commercial transactions. Where does it come from, what about it, and how does Americans treat it? Does it affect their email?”
Lutnick replied. “No, it doesn't affect their emails. So the concept was sitting with the president, but the cost of the post office is like losing $7 billion. I said for sure. So, I saw him the next day, he goes, okay, what do you have? He gives me 24 hours to understand that. And I said, well, the Department of Commerce is doing the census. … Can you imagine what you say to your postman, can you count the people in your house, how many days can he do the census? Monday? Can he double check it on Tuesday? How about Wednesday? He goes every day. … And do you know what else can you do at the post office? They can go to your house when you have a baby and give you a form for social security. …We can actually provide real customer service, go straight to your home, someone dies, here [are] Form, you can fill it out, I will bring them to your home, customer service. why? Because there are those people. Use government assets to make us better and save money. ”
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