As long as they can find language in the Constitution for this, I’m all for it.
somebody tell TheDonald to sell the USPS ,,
please.
Seriously. What SFB’s thinks up this BS??
If this were a meals on wheels program. For the elderly. Then yeah. Maybe.
It’s bad enough we taxpayers waste money on free stuff for most welfare recipients, but now they want the Post Office to deliver it too?
Grrrr.
My first thought is that, if a plan involving the USPS to deliver food/meals moves forward, it will be designed in a way to take more money from the average taxpayer or needlessly reallocate some tax revenue we are already financing.
My second thought is that, a Trump administration would not allow this to go forward, unless it is done in a way that benefits the average taxpayer.
JMHO
One look at how skinny people are around me makes me wonder where these food deserts are. Or was that desserts?
Perhaps so many people would not be in poverty if there were not so many people coming out of colleges trying to come up with ways to spend money to fix problems that do not exist?
We have very bad postal service where we live. Packages lost, damaged, misdelivered. God knows what they’d do with food deliveries.
This is so stupid that it will never be proposed in any committee of Congress.
The USPS would promptly contract this out to UPS and FedEX. OnTrac might even get a piece.
Well the reason they are in a food desert is because of the chronic shoplifting and occasional looting of the stores. If they address that issue plenty of vendors will come back.
Its not enough to get free food now they want it delivered.
Food deserts? Maybe stop rioting?
Funniest thing I've read in a while.
Do you really want to subject your parents or loved ones to Post Office Food?
Yes. Amazon may wind up being the USPS’s salvation. In fact, maybe they will just buy USPS and train them in the use of delivery drones.
Get the gub’mint out of charity.
NO and HELL NO, Abolish the Food Stamp program entirely and set up SOUP LINES WHEREVER NEEDED as many as necessary. Bring the DEMOCRAT POLICIES out front and center for the World to see.
Food that is about to go rotten being delivered by a service that routinely is slow and misplaces things. What can go wrong? And are 90% of the country’s “needy” so homebound that they can’t walk down to the Salvation Army or another soup kitchen?
There will be certain neighborhoods where such a delivery plan works very well, smooth and easy. Everyone will be pleasantly surprised and delighted!
There will be other neighborhoods where not even a Papa John’s Pizza man would deliver, because you take a chance of your employee getting robbed, shot, stabbed, propositioned, having your foods stolen, your company vehicle stolen, keyed or damaged.
Protective measures and even armed guards could be put into place as needed, but that would make the costs necessarily skyrocket. Not feasible for a non-profit business model.
US postage is an incredible deal. Imagine you can send an envelope cross country for 50 cents.
Yes, I understand that it was a better deal at 23 cents and 27 cents and 34 cents and 45 cents.
Part of the ability to execute that service with very small numbers of service failures is the ability to make those deliveries at “loose” times during the day.
Part of that ability is, sometimes you get a piece of mail from 2000 miles away in 2 days, sometimes 3 days sometimes 4 days.
The USPS doesn’t have to keep the mail heated nor cooled.
US postage for package sized parcels is distinctly not as good a deal, in fact it has become pretty expensive of late.
So to think that a meal, that needs to be kept upright in most cases, that needs to be delivered within certain time constraints and controlled in temperature, that may not be packaged in sub-containers that can withstand the G-forces involved in general package handling...at reasonable cost....
is wrong.
And we think we have to worry about mail carriers throwing out mail.
Wait’ll the postman gets hungry...