Posted on 07/23/2013 1:18:07 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
The main losers in your scenario will be Corporate America, who will no longer get massive government subsidies to dump their advertising crap on your doorstep.
What would that look like? If I want to send a Christmas card to mom back east, do I need to find out what mail service provider she's using and use the same one? If different companies are handing off to each other, who is making money where?
This should have gone out with door to door milk delivery.
Nooooooooo!!!!
OK, that's the best counter-argument I can come up with.
Use the computer off to the side with no line. It will do everything the postal worker can do with no wait.
What happens when multiple households get packages?
“So everybody goes to the post office to stand in line to get their mail?”
Sure, right after they stand in line for toilet paper and another line for bread. What’s the problem, Comrade?
I love junk mail. It subsidizes the mail I want.
Hell, cut the delivery staff in half and do alternating parts of the town Monday, Wednesday and Friday and the other Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Allied Waste, Republic and all the others manage a schedule like that and picks up one day per week with the same people and trucks. It ain't rocket science.
POSTMASTER GENERAL: Kramer, I’ve been, uh, reading some of your material here. I gotta be honest with you: you make a pretty strong case. I mean, just imagine. An army of men in wool pants running through the neighborhood handing out pottery catalogs, door to door.
KRAMER: Yeah! Ha ha.
POSTMASTER GENERAL: Well, it’s my job. And I’m pretty damn serious about it. In addition to being a postmaster, I’m a general. And we both know, it’s the job of a general to, by God, get things done. So maybe you can understand why I get a little irritated when someone calls me away from my golf.
KRAMER: I’m very, very sorry.
POSTMASTER GENERAL: Sure, you’re sorry. I think we got a stack of mail out at the desk that belongs to you. Now, you want that mail, don’t you Mr. Kramer?
KRAMER: Sure do!
My math is not very good, but if this change will save 4.5 billion per year and they lost 16 billion last year, there is still a loss of 13.5 billion!?
Seems like no one is looking at the real cost issues.
Stop providing bulk rates.
Then I wouldn’t get junk mail and the USPS wouldn’t deliver all that mail at a loss.
I have had Comcast for about 25-30 years and never had any trouble with them. I did lose my internet service one day, called them and they were out the next day rewiring everything. Said it had not been updated since they went to optic wiring or something like that. I am happy with them.
Soon the only mail that anyone actually sends by USPS will be tax bills and junk mail.
If you want a mailbox at the post office, they charge you for it. But if you want them to bring your mail to your door, it’s free. Seems kind of backwards to me.
Has anyone read Article I, section 8, clause 7 of the Constitution?
The mail you want subsidizes it. There would be a lot less people who had to deliver and sort the mail if it weren't for junk mail. If advertisers had to pay the full price for postage, the advertising would be more selective.
Besides which, even if I'm not interested in any of the junk folders, I have to go through them. So often, a bill or letter or something else I care about is hidden in those flyers.
We did that 4 years ago - even the school bus won’t drive within a mile of where we are. UPS and Fedex can never find us and putting our address in a GPS device leads people to somewhere 30 miles away. It’s great.
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