I have decided to add some thoughts to my article “Biden’s America: Part 1”.  The implications of the New Green Deal agenda in far reaching, more than one would think.  I am going use on specific example that impacts almost every industry, if not all.  I work for a company that provides work to the USPS, and on a smaller scale UPS and FedEx. 

I work for a company that prints, inserts and sends to the USPS to be mailed.  This is the third company I have worked with than does this type of work.  This company, at least the facility I work in, is much smaller in scale than the other two where I had worked. I will be sourcing my experience with the last two. We receive files electronically from financial institutions, such as health care companies, banks and investment holding companies (a financial institution that manages and maintains retirement accounts, like pensions and 401k plans). These financial institutions and banks mail a lot different documents, such as statements, mortgage payments, other loan payments, and the notices (NSF notice, past due notice, etc.) related to those accounts.  

When I had worked there, the first company had two clients that produced, on average, four (4) millions individual pieces of mail a month.  One bank produced an average of 100,000 nonsufficient funds (NSF) notices per day. The machines used to insert that volume of mail needed a minimum of 80 amps of power, they probably used 100 amps because attached to these machines were attached giant vacuum units that sucked up all the paper waste of the machines, and needed to be connected to an air compressor because it used a vacuum to move the envelopes through the insert process.  That company had five machines that needed that amount of power, plus another ten machines that used 50 amps and the compressor.

On the print side, they had giant print engines, which printed in color, that came in crates that could be used for a tiny house.  They also used an enormous amount of power, probably at least 50 amps, if not more (I didn’t work in the print department, so I don’t know the exact ampage).  This company had three in the facility I worked in.  They had two additional printers that were four engines that only printed in black and white but also used a lot of power.  To explain, these were what they called “continuous feed” printers.  Large rolls of paper were loaded on one end and either stack onto carts or re-rolled on the other end.  In addition to these, they had twelve of what were labeled “cut sheet printers”. Think of the average office copier at three to four times the scale in size.

The point of that explanation is to show the amount of energy that is needed to operate machines just for the postal industry. The company I now work for has four of the smaller insert machines, one continuous printer, a printer that prints the cards you get for insurance benefits, and three cut-sheet printers.  The three largest companies in this industry are FISERV, FIS Global and DST Systems. Then this mail is sent to another company to be sorted down by zip codes for savings on postage and the operate large machines to process that volume of mail.  On average, the second company I worked at inserted an average of 300,000 to 500,000 pieces of mail a day.  That was one facility. The one I work at now is about half that amount.

These numbers do not include the amount of junk mail that is mailed or the amount of mail from utility companies and all levels of governments.

All of that to say that if the Green New Deal is successfully put into effect, all that paper mail will need to be digitized.  All paper will need to disappear.  If that is what happens a lot of people will lose their jobs.  All the companies that operate the machines that I am familiar with, the paper companies, the companies that sort the mail, the utility companies, the companies that produce the energy, the companies that provide the resources for the energy, etc., and on down the line, and then those who deliver the mail, specifically the USPS. That is a lot of people out of work.

In my Biden’s America: Part 1, I mention that Biden claims that his Green Energy Plan will create 10 million new jobs.  What isn’t said is how many will be lost.  What isn’t said is that the people who are employed at those jobs are form the Middle Class. What isn’t said is that the American Dream for millions of Americans will be snuffed out like a candle, trampled underfoot by the imperialistic agenda of Biden’s party.

 I will continue this line of thought in another article.  As I said, the implications of a Green Energy plan are far-reaching and economically devastating.