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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm as Big Government as they come, and I think the USPS is obsolete, or at least hopelessly inefficient.  Someone drives from a sorting facility to my neighborhood daily, walks up the steps to my front door, puts mail in a box--only for me to trash 90% of it immediately.  Taxpayers are subsidizing advertisers and bill collectors. What a waste of time and environmental resources.  
Privatize it, but remain open to keeping a much scaled down (once a week?) delivery in rural or underserved areas.

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The Val-Pack type junk mail persists because their lobbyists have successfully perpetuated a low rate schedule for it - USPS doesn't want or need that business, and it could be cut without the drastic step of privatizing the mail.

I think that maintaining a system of hard copy communication is going to become even more important with the rise of email scams, deep fake stuff, bank hacks etc. The mail is reliable and people are still scared to tamper with it because the postal inspection people do not mess around. As we've seen with so many other services, the privatization playbook is that first you privatize, then you monopolize, then you enshitify or deny once the customer has no other options. We will find in a few years that we can't count on certain information or documents moving safely, and that large segments of the country do not have access to, e.g., accurate newspapers, correspondence with disfavored groups, actual USD checks instead of bitcoin, etc. To say nothing of mailed ballots. [/quote]

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