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The postal workers are living in the past - they might survive if they could let go of their Unions that stifle progress, but that is totally beyond their capability. The reason was already stated - "thousands of workers". This is the case with the Million Government workers that play like they are actually doing something.
We need some slash and burn, but that slash and burn will raise unemployment for an entire class of people that have no other options but the Government and Tax Payer teat. The only possibility is attrition, but that will take decades and they simply won't do it ..... they also won't "change" what they do because their entire survival depends on the Status Quo ...... which is ultimately untenable. It's a real Catch - 22.
But the Post Office has already been competing in the parcel delivery business with UPS and FEDEX for decades. Do you actually think UPS and FEDEX would want to get involved with the declining need to mail a letter? I sure don't.
You're not hearing me I guess, I don't think anyone will need to get involved in letter carrying because it's going to basically disappear in the next decade if not less.
You're not hearing me I guess, I don't think anyone will need to get involved in letter carrying because it's going to basically disappear in the next decade if not less.
You won't find companies like FedExp that will deliver the mail anywhere and every where at the price the post office charges.
You can say they arent subsidized only if you ignore the fact that the usps pays no taxes on its properties,no fees to register its 260,000 vehicles, borrows at subsidized rates from the treasury, covers its losses with taxpayer funded "loans" which they never seem to pay back and of course there are the actual subsidies it gets from congress.
Yet the usps spite of its monopoly consistently loses billions of dollars and still keeps going? Please tell us again how they are not subsidized.
You can say they arent subsidized only if you ignore the fact that the usps pays no taxes on its properties,no fees to register its 260,000 vehicles, borrows at subsidized rates from the treasury, covers its losses with taxpayer funded "loans" which they never seem to pay back and of course there are the actual subsidies it gets from congress.
Yet the usps spite of its monopoly consistently loses billions of dollars and still keeps going? Please tell us again how they are not subsidized.
How much are they actually losing? I thought their biggest money problem was primarily funding their pensions for 50 years in the future (or some idiotic thing like that).
You do know that in the Red States in rural areas the people (Republicans) like the Gubbermint Post Offices don't you? When you see a big gubbermint program whether its USPS, Defense, Medicare, Tricare, VA, EIC, etc. you will find a Republican defending it. Of course they are true conservatives because they are against the ACA and Snap and anything that benfits someone who lives in an urban area and carries the weight for the freeloaders in the Red States.
I use the USPS to ship packages, instead of using a company like UPS or FedEx. I think it is very useful. As for it being "outdate", people have been saying since the early 2000s that newspapers would soon be phased out.
Spoiler: They haven't been.
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