Make them all electric.
Posted on 12/14/2024 9:24:43 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Didn’t the post office become a semi-independent agency in 1971? I’ve heard since that year, the postal service is not officially a department of the government
Yes and the post office and the military are the only required departments mandated by the constitution. Probably need a constitutional amendment to change it.
During the election campaign, someone posed the question- "Would you put $100 in an envelope and mail it to yourself? If not, who would you trust your vote to the US Postal Service?"
Wasn’t there a film in the late 60’s? that had most of the government employees in Presidential succession killed and the postmaster general, an African American gentleman become President by succession?
Not to mention the USPS helps them commit election fraud. Fire them all and let the private sector hire back the professionals.
Will the Postmaster General still be a General?
I hope they don’t mess up the Post Office.
I know a lot of people have complaints about it, but in my area it’s the most reliable of all the different shipping outfits.
who = why
Great idea! It will also prevent Congress from raping the USPS yearly profits into their own slush-funds.
BRILLIANT!
Exactly.
Mandated in the Constitution.
I agree that they should be privatized, just to get rid of their Trump-hating union (since they handle mail-in ballots) but I’ll still defend them at times.
For example, once I needed to send a box of light bulbs (real ones, not the Leftist type) and UPS wanted $40 at their little store front. The guy there was shocked when I simply walked out. Then I went to the P.O. and they charged me $11. I think UPS has little or no interest for us ‘little guys’ as I’m sure they would have at least come close to matching the USPS $11 charge.
Since I only send a package about once every 5 years, I’m still cool to privatize, but beware, just like privatizing highways (God help us if DOGE goes there), the cost to us ‘little guys’ may wind up being far more than we ever bargained for.
Nixon started the habit of bailing it out.
Make them all electric.
The Post Office could be fixed using standard business practices.
Figure out which elements of the business make money and which are money losers.
Slash over-head.
Reduce service levels as needed.
Use mechanization and AI to streamline operations.
The Constitution requires its existence in some form—but it does not require a billion dollar a year loss.
Yes and the post office and the military are the only required departments mandated by the constitution. Probably need a constitutional amendment to change it.
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That is my understanding as well
One change the post could make that would save money - drop Saturday deliveries. Go five days a week.
“Wasn’t there a film in the late 60’s?”
Most likely the movie “The Man”.
We can probably privatize it.
But they may still need a subsidy from the federal government.
If you live in a cabin somewhere in Alaska, the Post Office will still deliver to you.
It is amazing that they lost 10 billion this year. And they don’t even have to provide retirement pensions seventy years into the future like the last twenty years. But I hope they don’t screw up the post office as well. Still the cheapest way to send things.
I guess. It’s going to suck paying ten bucks to send a letter. I know most don’t but those who do will never get the great deal the post office offers.
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