August 2018 - Sneak Peek
The American Philatelist is the monthly journal of the American Philatelic Society, the world's largest organization for stamp collectors and enthusiasts. Members receive the printed magazine and can access the digital edition as a benefit of membership in the Society. Please enjoy this sneak peek. We're confident that once you see all that we offer, you'll want to join the APS today.
The American Philatelist is the monthly journal of the American Philatelic Society, the world's largest organization for stamp collectors and enthusiasts. Members receive the printed magazine and can access the digital edition as a benefit of membership in the Society. Please enjoy this sneak peek. We're confident that once you see all that we offer, you'll want to join the APS today.
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As many readers well know, the Postal Service is a semiautonomous<br />
agency, whose board of governors is appointed<br />
by the president and approved by the Senate. Three new governors<br />
have been appointed in the last 15 months. The governors<br />
select the postmaster general. This happened last in 2015. By<br />
intervening at a high level in the USPS bureaucracy, Trump<br />
disregarded the chain of command, and I find that problematic.<br />
Amazon is a big company and Jeff Bezos is a very rich man,<br />
whose employment practices have been widely criticized. The<br />
president is unpredictable and, according to many firsthand<br />
reports, subject to obsessive anger. So, nobody’s perfect.<br />
This lack of perfection is exactly why there are laws and<br />
regulations both protecting and constraining the USPS. Stamp<br />
collectors don’t want to have a postal service that any president<br />
or politician (Democrat, Republican, Independent, etc.) can<br />
push around on the basis of an analysis that isn’t open for discussion.<br />
It is the job of civil servants to make determinations<br />
on these matters, as free as possible from political pressure.<br />
Imagine a USPS where the next set of commemoratives<br />
consists of politically motivated images. What about a special<br />
parcel rate for a company owned by one of the president’s current<br />
allies? Maybe a special set of definitives for a living president<br />
showing his picture on a fictitious edition of Time magazine.<br />
I think you get the picture. That is how things work in an<br />
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