Posted on 08/07/2011 6:15:39 AM PDT by maggief
We have a winner!
That's your strawman. You wrestle him by yourself.
I will not tolerate my tax dollars be blown on maintaining folks’ lifestyles.
"Blown" is subjective. But taxes, that's what they do. They maintain lifestyles that are generally agreed upon by society that they wouldn't get through the market.
This isn't an anarcho-capitalist site.
Some of these closures here will mean a mere 30 mile round trip to get the mail will become 50 miles or more.
You have to have acreage to ranch or farm here, and that adds up to distance from large towns.
The closures would save about $200 million annually for the ailing USPS, which has urged the end of its Saturday service.GOOD! A lot the bad, get your blood boiling mail, comes on Saturday and you can't call anyone to complain until Monday. So you sit there for a day and a half stewing.
So ending Saturday deliveries is fine by me.
Then all you have to worry about is getting your Friday mail early so you can call the asshats that day -- like before 5:00 pm Central Time :-)
If the USPS charged a market rate depending on distance, they would not be bankrupt.
While it is completely ridiculous that the government is in the business of delivering private mail in the first place, the business model the USPS is using is even more ridiculous.
And then there is another matter: there is no reason why communication needs to be anything other than digital at all anymore - written communications are an expensive luxury which people should be prepared to pay for. Shipping objects makes sense, but shipping words does not.
No..thinking you have a 'right' to home delivery is.
“That’s your strawman.’
That’s what the guy is demanding - a post office in close proximity to his home so he won’t have to drive out of his way. There is no constitutional “right” to a nearby post office.
“They maintain lifestyles that are generally agreed upon by society that they wouldn’t get through the market.”
In case you haven’t noticed this country is broke and in deep debt. To alleviate the situation numerous options are being discussed one of which is the shuttering of underutilized post offices. “Society” i.e. the Congress seem have settled on that option.
Well, look on the bright side.
At least half your mail has you "Pre-Approved" for something.
And the other half says "You may have already won!"
The Post Office and the military are the only two things that the Constitution authorizes funding for. Hardly Marxist.
I’m shocked!
I never said that all post offices should be closed. Those that are under-performing and are losing money need to be shut down. Our fiscal situation is very dire and that is a legitimate step in correcting that. It sucks for the guy who has to drive 10 miles to get his mail but he has a number of options to deal with it. Sucking away valuable tax dollars so he won’t be troubled aint one of them.
Fine with me. Consider that the people served by these offices will be driving considerably more and that will affect the price of fuel.
Pay your gasoline dollars, then.
Increase the overhead for the ranch/farm, and you'll pick up the cost down the line, too.
The tax dollars you should worry about go to people who aren't producing anything except more non-producers, not on some Constitutionally authorized expenditure.
I depend on them and they've not let me down. They've done a great job for me in every town, city and state I've lived in, all my life. Not perfect, but damn good.
“Plus many of these PO that are closing are small rural areas that simply don’t pay for themselves.”
True, but in Ohio, they’re closing many in the cities of Cleveland, Columbus, and Dayton.
Ten miles to the post office is a long damn way. Rural America has been kicked and depopulated enough over the last 40 years in this country. Way past time to stop. Moving them into urban areas greatly increases the probability their children will become liberals.
In case you haven’t noticed this country is broke and in deep debt.
Yeah, from the 100 trillion in unfunded liabilities for unconstitutional programs. Not from the pittance the constitutional Post Office costs.
Don’t worry that’s next. And they should put you on a RR.
One of the few deals where there are more Republican rural areas that have smaller offices that cost more per-piece to maintain.
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