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The USPS has hundreds of billions worth of prime real estate that trump wants to steal
Well, mail was nice while it lasted.
Not just mail.
Most (all?) of the package delivery services rely heavily on USPS for last mile deliveries. So expect UPS and Amazon to be sending people to the golf course to scream at fuckface
They don't give a fuck about the last mile deliveries. Without USPS keeping prices low, they will be able to rank up what they charge. It's a dream for them.
Last mile is what let's them sell. If people can't buy online they go back to brick and mortar and start questioning if that shoe horn is really worth a twenty minutes drive.
Amazon needs shipping prices to stay low. If they go up, Amazon either needs to reduce their margins to pay for it or they will be less competitive against physical shops. Either way their profits will take a hit.
They might be counting on it pushing more people to subscribe to Prime to keep cheaper shipping. They have their own distribution system so they can do the last mile if they want.
Assuming the market can bear it, that is. And goods are expensive enough as it is, even without import tariffs.
amazon is drooling at the opportunity to privatise all of american mail
There isn't money in physical mail and cranking that up will just push people even farther into digital correspondence.
Amazon has spent years (well over a decade now?) trying to cut out the USPS. The reality is that they can't. Their gig delivery driver model works for some regions but not for "rural america". And there is a lot of money in being the only lifeline many households have while being able to offload the high cost low frequency deliveries to a different company (USPS).
Five or ten years ago? Yeah, amazon wanted that. Now? It is actively not in their interest and would hurt their business model for the USPS to die.
Destroying the USPS has almost nothing to do with "good business" or even privatizing it. It is all about controlling information. It kills vote by mail almost instantly but it also removes the ability for informational mailers to be sent out. And an isolated populace is a stupid populace and a stupid populace is a republican populace.
Its the same reason social media was so compromised. Because then all the useful idiots tell people to "just unplug and enjoy your day to day life" and then they never hear about protests or human rights violations or...
amazon does a lot of their own now. even to my little shit town. nearest fulfillment center is in another state, 2 1/2 hrs away.
They are terrible at it, compared to my mailman or UPS.
Not with UPS anymore. That agreement ended recently.
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Reminder that the Post Office is only losing money because of a 2006 law that forces them to fund their retirement plan for 75 years in advance, which is an insane burden that no nother agency or private corporation undertakes. Also, even if it does lose money, it doesn't matter because the USPS isn't a business. It's a government service provided for the public good.
a 2006 law that forces them to fund their retirement plan for 75 years in advance
Congress actually fixed this a couple years ago: https://apwu.org/postal-service-reform-act-2022
That's true, and I did forget about that, but that also doesn't undo the 16 years of cutbacks they had to make to try to meet that target. It's also unclear to what happens to the money ($56 out of $72 billion, I think) they had already saved in retirement, but if I member right, they got about $50 billion in debt relief, so I guess that about balances out.
Also, even if it does lose money, it doesn’t matter because the USPS isn’t a business. It’s a government service provided for the public good.
All good points, but this is the most important one. We need to stop accepting the bullshit framing of the extremist radical right wing that sees everything as a business.
How long until "un-patriotic" mail from progressive institutions is no longer delivered? Democratic mail in ballots? Oopsies, right in the trash.
Biden after hearing this news:
Fire 200,000 federal workers.
Destroy tge USPS, obliterating snall businesses.
They really are doing everything they can to get labor costs down. This tight labor market these last few years must have been driving the upper class insane.
That makes me wonder about Amtrak.
Hmm.
The Project 2025 stuff seems to mostly align with what's on the Heritage Foundation website. Looking at said website, they are not happy about Amtrak.
Apparently Trump tried eliminating federal subsidies for long-distance Amtrak routes at the start of his first term and failed.
Nice! Now my mailbox won't be flooded with those pesky medical bills!
Just wait until the USPS is gone and all federal/tax docs have to be mailed via UPS or FedEx. You think it costs a lot to run the USPS? Just wait until a Duopoly can charge whatever they want. All the fuckers that voted for this are going to find out.
There is a reason only USPS delivers in rural America and the private companies use them for last mile delivery.
Take control= scuttling isn't it?
Way to go DeJoy. Nice work you absolute twat waffle.
I'm guessing he didn't get a Valentine's Day Card from Musk, he blamed it being 'lost in the post' (even through he didn't send one because the love is all one-sided in that relationship) and The Grand High Orange One is destroying the post office out of spite.
Downvoted, because fuck Jeff Bezos.
Honestly given how USPS is largely independent and even has their own form of law enforcement I suspect they may actually have thr resources required to outright oppose Trump. Also if Musk tries to just walk in and break shit they have the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible.
Imagine the USPIS arresting Musk and Trump. Maybe the postal cops can do what should have been done years ago.
I was thinking smashing Musks skull open on the concrete and pistol whipping him if he says anything stupid or until he stops twitching.