USPS was a fully self-sufficient dependable and inexpensive service for generations until stupid and unnecessary limitations were placed on their revenue streams and functionality. The end goal was always to replace them with a private entity that, by the nature of profit-driven businesses, will be more expensive, less efficient, will be a worse employer and have less oversight and transparency by the public. Also expect junk mail directly from your postal service from now on.
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Mmmhm, thanks Nixon
they have been trying to privitize it since Reagen, and only until GWB forced usps to fund 75years of pensions funds in advance so the gop can plunder it letter, is when they started to get into money trouble.
Also currently, one of family member is USPS worker and they have been stretched pretty thin, the turnover is pretty bad, they hire a bunch from somewhere else and they enver stick around long enough because its "wears down your body when your doing more than you should"
Don’t we already get junk mail directly from the postal service?
I believe what they’re saying is that if UPS or FedEx is now the postal service they’ll put junk mail for their services in your mailbox. What you consider junk mail is other businesses paying the post office to send mail (though you may not like it).
I will collect it and give it back to them. They can spend their money sorting it and trying to do whatever with it.
If it's a private company, expect that they will charge you more to send it back.
It costs me nothing to toss it into their collection boxes.
You assume that those would remain...
They will
There would be no reason for them to keep a free service like that when they could charge the consumer for it instead.
No company in position to purchase the USPS would have any conviction to show goodwill towards their users. Only quarterly profits matter.
It’s their business model. UPS and FedEx already have collection boxes and they’ve always been private.
Because their current competition, the USPS does so as a service that's paid for by your tax dollars.
Once that goes away, or is sold off, none of them have the incentive to continue to do so.
And in the end they will all eventually collude on raising the process for all of their services, just like every other 'not a monopoly' corporate collective.
why not just throw it away, instead complaining about it like other conservatives.
The conflict of interest potential here is insane, too. Suppose Wells Fargo buys the post office. Then they decide they want your grandpa's house so they disappear his mortgage payments forcing him into default.
How long until the leopards eat the faces of the people that voted for this on Twitter if this goes into effect?
They won't notice. Or they'll be happy because they owned the libs. Or it'll be Biden's fault.
Regardless there will be zero introspection or self-critique because they are incapable.
They 100% will notice, because the rural areas (which tend to be the most deeply conservative) will be the most heavily impacted. The USPS is the only reason many rural houses can reliably and inexpensively get mail. Shipping rural mail via UPS or FedEx often costs $20-50, if they’ll deliver it at all; Many rural areas are redlined by the shipping companies, because the companies don’t want to send trucks an hour and a half out of the city just for a single package. From a cost standpoint, that’s a three hour round trip for very little benefit. They’ll literally refuse to deliver the package, and tell the customer that the address is outside of their service area.
Shipping to those same addresses via USPS costs like a dollar.
But yeah, they’ll just blame Biden and continue voting red.
Trump will come out and say that communist socialist fascist drag queens are blocking our beautiful mail with their Obama deep state radical leftist agenda and somehow his supporters will believe it even though it makes no sense.
rural areas are very unprofitable for any kind of delivery, even for cable its pretty expensive.
The powers-that-be don't give a shit about your meaningless protests. March as much as you want. Hold as many signs as you want. That only works when the people making the decisions actually care about what you think of them and actually worry about whether or not you will vote for them in the next election.
Neither of those things is true. They work for the billionaire class and they have no intention of having fair elections ever again. So they can safely say "fuck your protests".
For all of it's bullshit, there is one thing you can say about the J6 rioters; no one ignored them.
It's well past time to learn that lesson. The fact that you all aren't firebombing government buildings by this point is a disgrace from a population of so-called "don't tread on me" proud Americans.
Just make the post office a banking institution.. This would be amazing for people who live in rural areas. We also need to revoke Monsanto's patents so that farmers can distribute seed without worry of being sued.
It'd be quite nice if the USPS integrated GNU Taler as its banking system, were that to ever happen.
Since, in all likelihood, we will have to rebuild it from scratch, might as well do it right.
