That's right - For an annual or monthly fee, let Americans get a secured email address for digital mail and a social media page. Let the USPS expand into banking, debit cards, short-term loans, and online bill-pay.
This will immediately destroy the Left's stranglehold on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. With the USPS, every American can engage on their page without the fear of censorship or shadow-banning.
And for packages? Current USPS post offices can still arrange package pickups or a post office box. Rural dwellers can still opt for mail delivery.
There is no need for mail delivery as it exists today. It is an anachronism. It also wastes precious resources. Digitize all regular mail, let the Post Office implement online bill pay and checking and debit accounts, and it'll become solvent and profitable within 3 years.
I’m impressed.
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That actually has some very good working points you know.
What a great idea. Why don’t you send that suggestion to the White House?
I am told how important the junk mail is to funding the post office. But it occupies the primary focus of their time.
Add an apartment complex with 150 units that’s 150 slots they have to stuff with that. If they were only inserting legitimate mail into each not everyone is going to get any certain days.
I don’t remember if it was Chuck Schumer Joe Biden who defended junk mail a decade ago saying that old people like it because that’s the only mail they get some days.
You have some ideas worth considering there. However there is need for more, not less “to the home” delivery. Let USPS deliver everything from sandwiches to pills, change to on-demand as well as route-based and do mail a couple days a week. And grow their pick-up business, lots of home-based businesses like eBay sellers need outgoing more than incoming services
> With the USPS, every American can engage on their page without the fear of censorship or shadow-banning.
Unfortunately it would end up like PBS and NPR.
That’s a hella idea.
As in a hella good idea
There was a bunch of work done on something like that when email first became a common thing. One of the thoughts was to map an email address to each current physical postal address. There are a lot of issues that would have to be worked through. Would delivery be made to a location, or individuals made at a specific location? Also, can you just imagine the spam such a regularized PO email address would get? There would be Constitutional issues of blocking spam to such addresses, so spam would have to be handled locally.
I have a mail forwarding service for all of my email and have since 1996. Since that time, I've changed actual email providers many times, but no one that I correspond through email is aware of it, because all they see is my pobox.com address. However, because I have such a long-lived email address, I get tons of spam. Pobox is bouncing a minimum of 50 emails a day. Fortunately their spam filters are pretty good, or it would be a real pain to wade through all the crap. I can just imagine grandma trying to deal with that, and sorting through the junk to find things that are actually important.
Now, the 'secured' part of your proposal is interesting. By that did you mean encrypted? If so, that opens up another huge can o' worms. Where would the encryption keys reside? Locally, or at the mailbox? If the former, you have issues with morons losing their keys due to mismanagement or hardware failure. It would suck to not be able to read your mail because a file got deleted. If the key existed on the USPS servers, that would mean that the government would have complete, transparent access to all of your correspondence. Not a good state of affairs.
Crypto is hard to do right, and if you're serious about it, you always control your own keys. I've been using PGP since the 90s, and have been dealing with some of the issues that go with actually using cryptography securely. It's not something the average American would manage or even grasp for the most part.
There is no need for mail delivery as it exists today. It is an anachronism. It also wastes precious resources. Digitize all regular mail, let the Post Office implement online bill pay and checking and debit accounts, and it'll become solvent and profitable within 3 years.
We shall have to disagree with the 'need' for physical mail delivery. I have certain bills that I much prefer to be physical, rather than just online accounts. It may well be anachronistic, but I actually prefer writing a physical check for my mortgage.