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Rural residents have been walking to the end of the driveway ever since rural Free delivery was started. Before that they had to go to the local post office. Too bad if new suburbanites have to walk to the curb.
Why get rid of the post office? You know who would get hurt the most by this? Rural America, aka where "Real Americans" live. The costs to deliver mail and provide service to these locations would be unprofitable and/or prohibitively expensive. Most rural communities in the US still don't have access to broadband, for example. The USPS has worked fine for most people since its inception. Getting rid of it is only for ideological purposes, pure and simple
Since when is rural america 'real america'? That is one of the crazier things I have read in a while. Also, why do we need letter delivery when nearly all americans have access to e-mail? The post office is only constitutional to 'facilitate interstate communication'. Since we have that communication now through the internet, we don't really need a post office. Additionally, why it is a problem for delivery to rural addresses to be more expensive than to other places? If a person chooses to live far away from everyone else, they should absolutely pay a premium on delivery costs because of it.
Under a new cost saving plan, newly built homes in the United States are no longer entitled to mail delivery to their homes; Congress is considering extending this to all existing homes in the future.
Time to lift the monopoly and other policies that prevent private delivery.
Why are you consertative idiots so obsessed with privatizing everything? All that does is drive up prices once the government is out of the way. You do realize that our constitution states that one of the responsibilities of the federal government is to deliver mail don't you?
Why are you consertative idiots so obsessed with privatizing everything?
I didn't say get rid of the PO, I said lift the monopoly and in addtion to that I would allow them to run themselves more like a business. Let them sink or swim. Certainly with the vast infrastructure they already have and no need for profit they should be able to bury any private enterprise. Right?
Why are you consertative idiots so obsessed with privatizing everything? All that does is drive up prices once the government is out of the way. You do realize that our constitution states that one of the responsibilities of the federal government is to deliver mail don't you?
Hey, it worked in Iraq, so it ought to work here. Contractors charge the government reasonably, don't they?
If there's a rat in the room, it's probably a government lobbyist for providing services, but, that's how our government works, how else would we get a toilet seat that costs taxpayers less than $400.00?
I didn't say get rid of the PO, I said lift the monopoly and in addtion to that I would allow them to run themselves more like a business. Let them sink or swim. Certainly with the vast infrastructure they already have and no need for profit they should be able to bury any private enterprise. Right?
Say what you really mean coalman, you really mean bust the postal union, don't you?
That is exactly what they plan to do. Their ideal is a business community that splits up markets and set prices without any annoying antitrust legislation or bothersome unions. They want a every man for himself except the business owners and Wall Street thieves.
Cluster boxes and post office boxes aren't so bad. The places where I've had cluster boxes have given me an extra opportunity to meet neighbors. Same with PO boxes. Granted they aren't as convenient as home delivery and means I have to make more of an effort to get MY mail. The really big issue, to me, with cluster boxes is keeping the area clean because some people are pigs and think it is just fine to drop their junk mail on the ground or if a trash can gets provided, it gets overflown. People who live in rural places are used to being inconvenienced for necessities. The other issue is there are people every year that we find out are sick, hurt, or dead because the postman notices the mail is piling up.
Then stop the Bush policy of prefunding retirement plans decades into the future in order to bankrupt the USPS then we wouldn't have this problem. Thank you, Republicans, for destroying the USPS and as a consequence, decimating rural America even more. Ironic
The law that mandated that the post office prefund retirement plans decades into the future was written by Henry Waxman, is he a Republican? In fact, Obama co-sponsored that bill in the Senate.
Say what you really mean coalman, you really mean bust the postal union, don't you?
If the USPS who doesn't need to profit cannot compete against private enterprise then the union needs busting.
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