Jaffer scandal provides fuel for anti-postal group
The rabidly right wing, anti-government, anti-postal service group that calls itself “Citizens Against Government Waste” may be a bit slow on the uptake, but they’ve finally gotten around to the scandal surrounding ex-USPS spokesman Azeezaly Jaffer:
“As the USPS’ voluble spokesperson, Mr. Jaffer was notorious for his tartly-worded rebuttals, called “Setting the Record Straight,” aimed at critics who questioned the USPS’s spending and management choices (all of which seem to have been scrubbed from the USPS website). He liked to boldly claim that all the USPS’s costs were “accounted for and fall into two basic categories: the actual costs of moving each piece of mail and the contribution each piece of mail makes to support [the USPS’s] coast-to-coast network. That’s not special postal accounting, that’s the law.”
“Mr. Jaffer’s reckless spending and “lack of candor” should be viewed as part of the operational culture of the USPS. Azzezaly Jaffer was just living large because he had swallowed the prevailing party line. Maybe the USPS does operate like a Fortune 100 business. Just like Enron, Fannie Mae, or Tyco.”
Ouch!