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Bullshit....The Republican Congress raided USPS coffers then demanded they fund retirement for all employees now to cover 75 years.
The right ruined it and then DeJoy is rotting it from the inside, all while blaming something else.
It's a service not meant to make tons of profits like a private company only worried about next quarter.
Last point, the ONLY reason UPS, FedEx could be perceived as out competing is because like ISPs they refuse to service the inconvenience rural customers. USPS has to service these folks.
We better not fuck up the post office so some fucking arrogant billionaire can buy up all the prime real estate to benefit themselves at the expense of us.
The post office is already fucked. Don't think i'm on the side of privatizing it though just because I called out it's problems.
The USPS needs a subsidy and that can come from tacking on fees to the private alternatives or by making it so labor rights are strong enough that abusing "contract" labor isn't economical. It's too useful of a service.
That being said... paper mail can largely be replaced with email and packages are mostly a business enterprise in terms of volume. We probably need some serious innovation to be considered for a 21st century post office. Imagine if we had USPS email and they sold advertising in place of google to support the funding of the physical service. I'm not saying this is the best way, i'm just calling out hypothetical. The people who know the industry better will have way better suggestions than I do.
Today the USPS does do advertising, whenever you do a change of address you're given a packet of bullshit (as an example.) At least if it was digital it would be less paper in a dump somewhere.