What we need to end is any and all public “service” (government job), benefits, which includes healthcare and retirement. Pay them a straight wage that we’re not on the hook for, for decades after they leave. While we’re at it, we can peg their wage to—in some fashion—local median wage.
Raise the price of postage and let this Constitutional Federal Program pay for itself, based on user fees. If it can’t run itself, it’s one of the few services that has valus (like roads), because we need infrastructure in case of war, natural diseaster, etc. But what we don’t need is more junk mail to bloat more government bureaucrats.
Fold-up that USPS POS; let Stamps.com/UPS/FedEx/DHL etc do the work, and save us many, many billions in losses each year. All I get are bills and garbage/junk mail from them!
I thought the P.O. lost money on junk mail. Maybe instead of distributing more of the darned stuff, which goes straight into our recycling bin, they could just raise the price a little.
Someone should raise the question, how many trees will it cost to deliver more junk mail?
Oh sure, it's already nothing more than a high-priced, make-work, union-thug, junk-mail disposal scam.
There's hardly any actual mail in the USPS delivery stream.
[Union advocated] junk mail is what killed the Post Office.
I am surprised they have lasted this long.
FTUSPS
“Postal Service: We need more junk mail”
I’LL DONATE MINE—THEY CAN HAVE IT ALL!
I’m all for it! Junk mail makes GREAT kindling.
I’m not sure this author really understands how USPS works. Having spent quite a bit of time in their facilities in years past, I know there are three basic kinds of mail: letter mail, flats (i.e. magazines), and parcels. Each is handled by automated equipment that is unique to each type of mail, and thus the facility must be capitalized for each. The volume of each type has fluctuated historically but until the internet came along, the volume of letter mail has always increased year over year. Now it’s dropped like a rock. That means the facilities are overcapitalized and inefficient and adding more flats or parcel volume may help keep a P&DC or Bulk Mail Center open, but it won’t change the fundamental problem - the precipitous drop in the volume of letter mail.
The trees! My G_d, the trees!
Short of building a cabin in the woods I can't figure out how to do that.
I get ZERO value or use out of the Postal Service.
They should be eliminated as a GSE (if they can make it on their own, fine) and all things shift to digital.
Can't we make a greenie argument? I bet they burn a million gallons of fuel per day, MINIMUM.
“The U.S. Postal Service wants small businesses to send more direct mail”
Go to hell. I’m every bit as sick of junk mail as I am with spam email or I was with telemarketers.
Hey Postal Service, get some connections to the big banks and government insurance racket, and they’ll mandate us to pay for whatever you want, or be fined.
The problem for business regarding junk mail isn’t just the cost of postage...its the printing and handling costs on top of that that are prohibitive. Businesses are beginning to figure out that if they can advertise via the internet they eliminate both the postage and printing/handling costs.
I’m getting tons of junk mail already, all of it from parties, PACs, and politicians begging for money.