If we want to leave our children and grandchildren a better world, instead of one buried under bureaucracy and debt, it's time to get serious about reforming government.
This is a really dumb idea. When something is privatized, you lose your rights. A private post office would go crazy violating its customers privacy and would censor people it doesn’t like. UPS already will not ship many books of authors it doesnt like, USPS cant do this.
Of course amazon censors legal content of authors it doesn’t like, this is well known. Fed Ex and UPS also will refuse service to certain companies which have outside pressure groups on them. USPS is very inefficient but a privatized mail service would be a risky proposition from a rights perspective.
True privatization is best. There is nothing good the government does better than the free market. (There's plenty of bad that it excels at, but we don't want it doing those things...)
Partial privatization can go very wrong, like private prisons.
You didn't mention that they've been forced to fund their pension for a hundred years and have been put on a "for profit" basis. That's mainly why they are showing a loss. Privatization generally makes things more expensive and less efficient.
I recently went by my post office in Santee, California (east San Diego County) on a Sunday and discovered their drive-up blue drop boxes are locked during the off hours, totally negating the point of having them there. 🙄. This same office remodeled a few years back and it was under construction for probably two years, and when it re-opened, it still looked basically the same. My tax dollars are work.
While living in Newtown Square, PA a few years ago, I was struck by the presence of no less than four USPS retail facilities within five miles. That, while grocery stores, pharmacies, and others began providing some mail services, from buying stamps to delivering and picking up FedEx packages. You are totally correct that Members of Congress scream to high heaven about closing such facilities and even taking away those big blue remote mailboxes. And those complaints will be compounded by mostly Democrats who push "vote by mail" and related schemes.
This is a really dumb idea. When something is privatized, you lose your rights. A private post office would go crazy violating its customers privacy and would censor people it doesn’t like. UPS already will not ship many books of authors it doesnt like, USPS cant do this.
Does Amazon censor people it doesn't like? Does FedEx?
Of course amazon censors legal content of authors it doesn’t like, this is well known. Fed Ex and UPS also will refuse service to certain companies which have outside pressure groups on them. USPS is very inefficient but a privatized mail service would be a risky proposition from a rights perspective.
We are talking about delivering packages. Billions of people use Amazon to ship stuff every day.
True privatization is best. There is nothing good the government does better than the free market. (There's plenty of bad that it excels at, but we don't want it doing those things...)
Partial privatization can go very wrong, like private prisons.
You didn't mention that they've been forced to fund their pension for a hundred years and have been put on a "for profit" basis. That's mainly why they are showing a loss. Privatization generally makes things more expensive and less efficient.
I recently went by my post office in Santee, California (east San Diego County) on a Sunday and discovered their drive-up blue drop boxes are locked during the off hours, totally negating the point of having them there. 🙄. This same office remodeled a few years back and it was under construction for probably two years, and when it re-opened, it still looked basically the same. My tax dollars are work.
While living in Newtown Square, PA a few years ago, I was struck by the presence of no less than four USPS retail facilities within five miles. That, while grocery stores, pharmacies, and others began providing some mail services, from buying stamps to delivering and picking up FedEx packages. You are totally correct that Members of Congress scream to high heaven about closing such facilities and even taking away those big blue remote mailboxes. And those complaints will be compounded by mostly Democrats who push "vote by mail" and related schemes.