We were talking about this at the office. The post office has to go private.
Obama: “The post office has been such a great success, let’s have the government take over health care!”
Nah, just combine the PO with gov't health care. They could deliver the doctor to your door.
(1) Employee buy out,
(2) Government grants full service monopoly for 20 years, renegotiable indefinitely for additional 20 year periods,
(3) We do a leveraged buy out of Fed Ex and UPS, and then displace Postal managers with UPS managers ~ and Fed Ex becomes the exclusive air lift provider for the new USPS.
Service changes will include the closure of 28,000 useless facilities that actually impede the speedy delivery of mail to the rural sector, the elimination of door delivery in residential areas (to be replaced with cluster boxes), the elimination of Tuesday delivery, and quick negotiation with states, counties and cities where there are buildings rented by USPS to EXEMPT those buildings from property taxes (else a building will be rented some other town that makes that agreement).
Minimum quantities eligible for presort or bulk rate discounts would be raised substantially.
The post office hasn't received taxpayer money since 1983.
> We were talking about this at the office. The post office has to go private.
I think you would live to regret that. The USPS is pretty good, and it is universal. If it were privatized you’d probably find the urban centers well-serviced and the rest of the country ignored.
It might prove difficult to get Christmas Cards to Culbertson Montana or to Warren Minnesota if you privatize the USPS. These would be unprofitable postal destinations and would likely have their services compromised in favor of New York, Chicago, Seattle... where the money is. That is the nature of private enterprise.
New Zealand’s postal service has been open to competition for about a decade, yet there is absolutely no danger of a private competitor getting a realistic foot-hold. NZ Post is a stand-alone State-Owned Enterprise, and it receives no subsidies. Yet nobody can do the job as quickly or as cheaply or as reliably as NZ Post — not by a very long shot.