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To: cripplecreek

“What do you think I pay postage for moron?”

Evidently not for any lessons on civility or the raising of one’s IQ. Taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for your comforts.


20 posted on 08/07/2011 6:38:07 AM PDT by KantianBurke
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To: KantianBurke; cripplecreek
Taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for your comforts.

Does your town have parks, sidewalks, paved streets, libraries,benches to sit on, garbage cans on the corners?

The Post Office is one of the very few constitutional things the Feds actually engage in. It was meant to be subsidized from day one. There's a million and one unconstitutional things to be cut to right our fiscal ship before we go after the Post Office.

28 posted on 08/07/2011 6:46:28 AM PDT by triumphant values (Never criticize that to your right.)
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To: KantianBurke; cripplecreek
The problem, gentlemen, is that the USPS insists on charging the exact same postage to deliver Letter A from 101 3rd Street in Miami to 103 3rd Street in Miami and also Letter B from 101 3rd Street in Miami to Nome Alaska.

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.

46 posted on 08/07/2011 7:16:45 AM PDT by wideawake
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