US Postal Service future

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't see the point of privatizing it. All of the profitable shipping has been picked of by UPS and FedEx.

The only point would be... to mess with mail in ballots.

It's about getting rid of the non-cost effective stuff, like rural delivery. UPS, FedEx, and Amazon subcontract to USPS to deliver to those areas because otherwise it would be prohibitively expensive. Let the free market work! Why should the federal government subsodize those very successful companies?

[Anonymous]

The postal service wasn’t privatized to begin with because rural service isn’t profitable but our rural citizen deserve a good mail service. The government often steps in to provide services to rural communities because corporations won’t. See also the rural electrification project.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see the point of privatizing it. All of the profitable shipping has been picked of by UPS and FedEx.

The only point would be... to mess with mail in ballots.

It's about getting rid of the non-cost effective stuff, like rural delivery. UPS, FedEx, and Amazon subcontract to USPS to deliver to those areas because otherwise it would be prohibitively expensive. Let the free market work! Why should the federal government subsodize those very successful companies?

Some things are a service supported by taxes and fees. Is the US military supposed to drive a profit? The National weather service? NIH?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see the point of privatizing it. All of the profitable shipping has been picked of by UPS and FedEx.

The only point would be... to mess with mail in ballots.

It's about getting rid of the non-cost effective stuff, like rural delivery. UPS, FedEx, and Amazon subcontract to USPS to deliver to those areas because otherwise it would be prohibitively expensive. Let the free market work! Why should the federal government subsodize those very successful companies?

Some things are a service supported by taxes and fees. Is the US military supposed to drive a profit? The National weather service? NIH?

The people who benefit from USPS subsidies voted overwhelmingly for this. Those of us that live in urban areas have more than enough issues of our own and should not waste limited political capital on this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The postal service wasn’t privatized to begin with because rural service isn’t profitable but our rural citizen deserve a good mail service. The government often steps in to provide services to rural communities because corporations won’t. See also the rural electrification project.

yet, they voted against their interests.

Elections have consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The postal service wasn’t privatized to begin with because rural service isn’t profitable but our rural citizen deserve a good mail service. The government often steps in to provide services to rural communities because corporations won’t. See also the rural electrification project.

They don't deserve anything. They voted for Trump. Ask Amazon about their lawsuit ...they refused to deliver to certain neighborhoods. Privatization is not the answe...Republicans always say privatize because they're always looking for a profit and to squeeze people.

[Anonymous]

I wish USPS delivered letters for free, not because I want free mail but because maybe that would get through to people that it's not supposed to turn a profit. It's a service, not a business. It should no more turn a profit than a library or a school turns a profit.

[Anonymous]

Those of you who say we don't need it anymore must not do any shipping.

Some USPS facts:
-The USPS is the only service that does NOT have a rural fee or residential delivery fee.
-They are the only service that does not have a fee for fuel or emissions offset.
-They are the only service that does not charge more during peak shipping times, like Christmas.
-USPS' API is also the most accurate when integrated into your online shopping cart. Our online shopping cart displays the shipping prices of USPS, UPS, and FedEx for our customers to pick. USPS is always accurate within pennies of what the actual shipping price ends up being. UPS' is the worst.

Just today a customer paid $20 for UPS Ground shipping but I had to swap their order to USPS because the actual UPS price once I entered the information jumped up to $30.23. The UPS API must only use zip codes to determine price and not actual addresses, because when entering the address on ups.com, it added additional fees for residential delivery and rural delivery. It's why we have a note on our site that shipping method may be changed at our discretion to accommodate price fluctuations. That same package shipped via USPS for $10.05 and we got to refund the customer $9.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those of you who say we don't need it anymore must not do any shipping.

Some USPS facts:
-The USPS is the only service that does NOT have a rural fee or residential delivery fee.
-They are the only service that does not have a fee for fuel or emissions offset.
-They are the only service that does not charge more during peak shipping times, like Christmas.
-USPS' API is also the most accurate when integrated into your online shopping cart. Our online shopping cart displays the shipping prices of USPS, UPS, and FedEx for our customers to pick. USPS is always accurate within pennies of what the actual shipping price ends up being. UPS' is the worst.

Just today a customer paid $20 for UPS Ground shipping but I had to swap their order to USPS because the actual UPS price once I entered the information jumped up to $30.23. The UPS API must only use zip codes to determine price and not actual addresses, because when entering the address on ups.com, it added additional fees for residential delivery and rural delivery. It's why we have a note on our site that shipping method may be changed at our discretion to accommodate price fluctuations. That same package shipped via USPS for $10.05 and we got to refund the customer $9.

Then let the Chamber of Commerce and NFIB save it. This is the policy outcome they supported and funded.

[Anonymous]

Does USPS still try to enforce the regulation that only they can ship packages? I remember over a decade ago they tried to go after companies for using UPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe people will come around to the idea that privatizing everything is not a good thing when they have to mail out something that used to cost 60 cents, and instead have to pay 7 dollars to FedEx/UPS/DHL whatever.

Yep. Trump must see a way to gain money for himself by doing this. I don't think he's motivated by anything other than earning money to pay his legal bills or avoiding jail time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see the point of privatizing it. All of the profitable shipping has been picked of by UPS and FedEx.

The only point would be... to mess with mail in ballots.

It's about getting rid of the non-cost effective stuff, like rural delivery. UPS, FedEx, and Amazon subcontract to USPS to deliver to those areas because otherwise it would be prohibitively expensive. Let the free market work! Why should the federal government subsidize those very successful companies?

It isn't subsidizing UPS, it is subsidizing poor rural people. Just like the rural access to utilities like electricity, phone, internet.

Rural delivery of mail should be once a week and only if you didn't pick up your mail in town.
Going down a rural route to deliver junk mail is dumb as fk

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe people will come around to the idea that privatizing everything is not a good thing when they have to mail out something that used to cost 60 cents, and instead have to pay 7 dollars to FedEx/UPS/DHL whatever.

Yep. Trump must see a way to gain money for himself by doing this. I don't think he's motivated by anything other than earning money to pay his legal bills or avoiding jail time.

It's so naive that trump is doing this to make a few pennies here and a few pennies there.
You think so small.
You are so preoccupied with him stealing some milk that you don't see him stealing your cows or the deed to your farm.

[Anonymous]

GOP playbook

1) tell the public that government doesn't work
2) defund and break government so it doesn't work
3) tell the people "see, the government doesn't work"
4) Privatize so the oligarchs reap the profits
5) wash and repeat

[Anonymous]

All those red state rural Trump voters are going to suffer most. It’s what they wanted, I guess because this is not a new idea for him. The GOP has been trying to do this for decades.