To go Postal or not to go Postal

Townhall.com ^ | August 14, 2011 | Paul Jacob

[XRdsRev]

Very true. Adjusted for inflation, it is cheaper to mail a first class letter today than it was when the post office started in the late 1700’s.

[EN1 Sailor]

Seems to me it wouldn't be that hard to save the postal system.

I get in trouble with the post office all the time because my box is smaller than a shoe box (one of those gang boxes that serves ten people) and I only check it about once every two weeks. I never, ever read junk mail, which is the preponderance of what over-fills my box.

I think if I were to run the post office, I'd cut back on employees, vehicles and only deliver letters (there should be a federally protected delivery service for legal notices and such, if for no other reason), no more junk mail, let the paper boy carry that stuff around. UPS and FedEx can deliver packages.

[freespirited]

Instead of losing billions, why not free the Postal Service by selling it to the highest bidder?

Because Congress loves its right to meddle in the post offices' business, that's why.

[Species8472]

The Germans sold their post office to DHL several years ago. Their system now makes a profit.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Sounds like a good idea. Why don’t we selloff the Postal Service in a ‘right-to-work’ like Texas to UPS or FedEX and then see how the finances look a year from now.

If the Texas test works, then go nationwide with a non-union privatized postal service.

[hershey]

That last sentence should read: if the Postal Service didn’t have to prepay billions....it would be profitable.

[TXnMA]

"Even once a month, but I’m afraid they’d need a dolly to haul that much junk mail."

A relative who is a postmaster in a fair-sized town says, "'Junk mail'? -- we call that, 'REVENUE'!!"

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Hmmmm... a quasi-government "business" that makes it income from hustling paper SPAM...