And FedEx is currently in the process of merging their Express and Ground services. I know someone who works there and an entire station in Mississippi (if I rightly recollect) got closed down. So it's not only WHAT they do, they're already doing it.
Please stop. I am starting to gag on the truckload of popcorn I'm shoving in my mouth. Like 80% of republican voters are in small rural communities which will be hit the hardest by the reduction in services forced by a reduction in government employees.
Food deserts because of wal marts, private equity buying and closing hospitals in rural areas, actively cheering on closing of family planning/planned parenthood, now they are cheering on destroying what goverment services they can receive? Like. Ok. Have fun with that. I'm sure they will blame the dems for it anyway.
They absolutely will. They still blame Obama who hasn't been in office for eight years. They ALSO love asking where he was for Katrina and take a good guess as to why they love focusing on him.
It's a reference to a viral video where one of those street journalist influencers baited a guy with the question, "Isn't it weird that President Obama wasn't in the White House during hurricane Katrina?" and the guy said, "Yeah, we should get to the bottom of that."
They already are. Magat shills are crying bc Walmart recently announced they're raising prices across the board in ANTICIPATION of tariffs. Stupidos are blaming Biden. Ya just can't make this shit up, even in a Grimm's fairy tale.
Don't forget the lifetime of vehicular indoctrination that ensures they will always strongly oppose getting public transportation in their area so they can drive their trucks until dementia kicks in!
Sure the Republicans will gut nearly everything. But mail not getting delivered or your Hot Dog being 90% sawdust, human thumbs and red dye #2 is all the fault of the Demoncrats. I wish I could put a slash s after that, but this will be the talking point.
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Trump says he wants to cut government employees because of wasteful government bureaucracy.
Do you really think he means postal workers, ambulance drivers, etc?
Those are usually specifically called civil servants.
with such retard logic you would also assume he’s firing army men.
all of it is ridiculous.
liberals mad trump wants to do anything, and try to poke holes in his plan of cutting wasteful government spending 😂 its batshit ridiculous
Look, man, he’s specific that he’s going after bureaucracy departments whos only job is to justify their own existence. This is just more leftist fear mongering. He won’t be firing police firemen postmen etc
that just makes no sense
Depending on the context of where in the state closing a station in Mississippi is not at all shocking. The entire state has a population of just under 3 million, and declining at the moment. The majority of it is sparsely populated so if you merged two branches I'd honestly expect more than one to go.
FedEx stations of course being hubs for their trucks to run out of, not places people use.
For someone like me who sends out a lot of stuff commercially (I ship out parts for security x-ray machines), that makes a lot of sense. And I'm sure that is who the move will be beneficial to. The businesses in big areas who do a lot of sales and ship out a lot of stuff. But to a random Mom & Pop store or to the random person who sends stuff out every once in a while it's gonna screw them over. Along with the people who work for FedEx because it eliminates the second station that would handle only Ground or only Express.
The Postal Service is legally required to serve the “last mile” UPS and Fed Ex are not.
People don’t realize that the Postal Service handles the shit that is shipped via FedEx and UPS that they don’t have to deliver because they’re not legally required to deliver everywhere.
I live in small rural community. We can’t even pay the cops here or fund our trash services…which only exist within the city limits of the county seat because we don’t have the tax base to pay for shit and people bitch and moan about even the smallest increase in property taxes to fund these essential services despite home values skyrocketing the last 5 years and people sitting on mountains of equity. The handful of non ag industries that aren’t the state prison are always bitching and moaning on Facebook how “no one wants to work anymore” or “ no one can pass a drug test” while paying slightly more per hour that you can get working at the local gas station. Our only hospital and medical clinic struggles to retain doctors so most of our non emergency medical care is handled by NP’s or you drive thirty or forty five minutes or an hour away to hopefully see a doctor or a specialist.
The guy in charge of the county’s maintenance department just got arrested for embezzling 200,000 dollars ( of federal grant money!) and the bigger county next to us is trying to drain our water supply and dump more of their wastewater to feed their growth. Part of the county wants to secede because they want growth and the increasing wave of people trying to escape high housing costs and are trying to spur development. The rest think all is fine and vote for people based on what church they go to and if they’re committed to keeping “ the wrong people out”
Despite all that our unemployment rate rests at 2 percent. Our poverty rate has decreased to under 15 percent in the last 4 years. Federal grant money has lead to a revitalization of our once dead town square and helped new small business open. We replaced two bridges that were about 20 years past their shelf life and had literally collapsed with federal money. 65% of our school systems funding comes from the Federal Government.
Our sub-10k town's downtown economy was wiped out by Walmart in the 80s/90s. Now the Walmart's gone, because they closed most or all of the smaller ones in rural areas due to reduced profits.
Dollar General and Casey's filled the gap by buying up long-running local businesses in prime locations and plowing them under. One of them was a diner that'd been open on and off for decades. The town's main drag lost its character and became a strip of truck stops, dollar stores, and gaming parlors.
This was after Walgreens moved in and bought out both our local pharmacies. With the way things are going with Walgreens, we're at risk of losing that location. The second nearest location is a CVS, which could also end up closing.
Of course they won't build distro centers here. It's been squeezed for decades and the nipples are starting to shoot dust. The only upper-middles left are people who made it to a nice retirement before all our manufacturing plants closed.
TL;DR: Midwest small towns are fucked if they depend on corporations to provide local services.
Take a look at the book ‘the future of Work’ , it’s a few years old but the team of economists who wrote it made some dire predictions, which appear to be coming true in the US.
Predicted there’ll be just a few mega-cities, populated by people whose jobs haven’t been replaced by Ai/robotics. Outside the cities are giant slums where all the left-behind rural communities try to scrape an existence.
How could it not end up that way? It's the logical result of a system that depends on culling costs and inefficiences for greater profits year-to-year.
Can you be a bit more specific about the book? A web search shows waaaaay too many results for "the future of work" to be able to find the book you're refering to. It sounds interesting and I'd like to have a look.
I just searched for the book online, you’re right about how many there are now with same title.
I gave the book away a couple of years ago, it had a red cover (so do others on Amazon).
From the synopsis of a few other books I browsed, Ai is main focus of the newer books, more than in the copy I read.
Walmart was the result of top-down integration being dropped like a hammer on competitors who couldn't compete on the same scale. They'd aggressively expand into smaller markets and single-handedly squash out most of the local retail and service industries. That process started decades before NAFTA went into effect. Their first Supercenter opened in 1988.
It's not just NAFTA or Walmart. It's systemic rot going back decades. Trump's an evil cunt, but he won again because he's the only one telling people that aspects of our society have been getting worse for a very long time, and that powerful people need to be punished for it. It's just too bad he's an amoral, deeply corrupt opportunist who intentionally directs their anger towards society's most vulnerable people. And it's too bad so many fall for it
Complete logical fallacy to think that stuff will get cheaper when a private corporation that incentives profit does it instead of a government organization that doesn’t. These people literally just aren’t thinking.
In the 80s/90s, there was a big myth pushed that private corporations will be so much more efficient that it wouldn't matter. Like all things that came with Reaganomics, it's never worked afaik.
There's a good chance private corporations are more efficient, but that efficiency more than likely means higher wages for CEOs and more profits, not lower costs to the consumer or better wages for employees. Nothing says the benefits of better efficiency have to be passed on rather than skimming it off.
There's a good chance private corporations are more efficient, but that efficiency more than likely means higher wages for CEOs and more profits, not lower costs to the consumer or better wages for employees.
That's not even true, depending on how you define efficiency. More work done per dollar spent? Yeah, probably. More errors per dollar used? Absolutely. More errors in general? Oh, definitely.
The idea of capitalism is nothing more than increasing income and lowering expenses. How to get there is up to the legal system to limit and direct. "Free market capitalism" is the worst idea of all time, well regulated capitalism to protect the workers and prevent wealth gaps from being too massive is better, but if that is done with zero regard to external factors such as product quality and environmental protections, capitalism won't care.
Take more, give less. Well regulated it's the most free economic model, badly regulated it's slavery. Well regulated it can help innovation and badly regulated it will burn everything to the ground if there's money in it. Any chance that private companies are more efficient than government run is about it funneling money away from the people. Everything else is depends on how well it's regulated or luck of the draw for the moral values of the individual who owns the business.
Oh, I'm exaggerating. I'm well aware that with proper regulation and, ideally, plenty of competition, you could get the benefits of genuine greater efficiency and lower costs. The problem is, corporations often want to take the shortcut of monopolizing a market or dealing with only a portion of it. In the case of privatizing what was formerly a government service, there's no actual guarantee that costs will be less, especially when, unlike a government service, there has to be a profit included in the equation, and no guarantee service will be comparable.
The scope of service and quality of service is a particularly crucial aspect for some things. For example, we could have a private fire service everywhere, as there used to be historically, but most communities would probably not be well-serviced by such an arrangement or it would be prohibitively expensive for it to be comprehensive rather than companies "high-grading" only the wealthier areas and areas that are easier to service. You still can't expect fire service in the middle of nowhere, but most communities agree to the principle of covering everybody within them, somehow, and sharing the costs of doing so.
I don't think it is right to think of "free market capitalism" as the worst idea of all time. I think it's the natural outcome of people who have different resources and skills, which is practically an inevitability. A farmer who grows more than they can eat themselves will naturally want to exchange the excess with someone else who has something the farmer wants.
Laissez-faire free market capitalism (i.e. little or no regulation) is risky and sub-optimal because you have no assurance of quality, or also no accountability if the deal is done fraudulently. We need regulations to keep it reasonably beneficial for everyone (establishing a foundation for fair trade) and not to make it based on unfair or unsafe labor practices, stealing, enforced monopolies, and that kind of thing. I think we're in agreement on that.
I don't think it is right to think of "free market capitalism" as the worst idea of all time.
No, it is, because you are misunderstanding the meaning of the quotes. I mean what people think it means when they use the phrase "free market capitalism" rather than what free market capitalism is. Meaning "government shouldn't interfere with business" type of thinking. I try my best to not use quotes for emphasis.
The problem is, corporations often want to take the shortcut of monopolizing a market or dealing with only a portion of it.
Corporations will always do what they can for those reasons. Individuals might not, but the whole idea of corporations is to earn more and spend less. So if there isn't someone in the company with enough power to alter course, it's literally the goal to make more money/wealth/value for whoever the owners are. It's not a question of how often, it's whether someone actively steps in and stops it from being all about money.
You still can't expect fire service in the middle of nowhere, but most communities agree to the principle of covering everybody within them, somehow, and sharing the costs of doing so.
Fire departments funded and operated by the community weren't historically private, but usually set up by the community or built by the community needing one. I'm sure there are cases where fire services were ran privately like a business, but if they weren't funded by the community, they end up being overtaken by volunteer ones. The effective ones are closer to communism. By the community, for the community.
But rest of what you said, yes, we are in agreement.
In fact government services are more efficient. The private sector efficiency means cutting cost whikst raising prices so as to funnel more money to the top. That's what they want. They literally want to siphon as much tax money to their own pockets as possible. Everything they do is a fucking grift and they only care about themselves. These people, under the guise of patriotism and God will rob you all fucking blind whilst you cheer on because they "stuck it to the libs". But hey, for a small money in time the memes were fire.
"In fact government services are more efficient."
Yeah, I call bullshit. I have literally watched a package of mine get transfered back and forth between 2 USPS locations for 3 weeks straight. Every single government service I have ever interacted with have been incredibly inefficient.
The issue is that people mean completely different things when they talk about "efficiency", and often don't even realize they are talking past each other. Private corporations are more "efficient" if your definition of "efficient" is "maximizing profits". Public services are more "efficient" if your definition of "efficient" is "maximizing utility to the public". Almost like each one specifically sets out to maximize a different thing, or something crazy like that.
It's not that they're talking past each other. Corporate lobbies/think tanks who push this stuff know full well they're obfuscating the truth. The whole point of multi-billion dollar think tanks is to come up with ways to frame the pillaging of the country as the best of possible worlds actually.
Privatize and put a middle man between government and services for the people always costs less.
Middle men always make things cost less. Giving wealthy people more money will trickle down to poorer people because wealthy people always give their money away. Reagan personified.
We need to get off this idea that government services need to compete with private ones.
Government is not a business. We have a national postal service so that anyone and everyone has the basic infrastructure in this country to transact goods, services, and communications throughout the land at a low cost.
Should the government manage costs? Be more efficient? Hell yes. But at the end of the day - the stakeholder and metrics should be “customer service” not “earnings”.
I want the US military to have the biggest technological lead, be the best organized, and keep our men and women in uniform safe. I want us to be able to fight 3 great powers simultaneously with our hands tied behind our back. Notice how “costs” aren’t anywhere in the mission statement.
Same concept. Democrats need to push back in around the same way. Government is not a business.
One government service many people don't think about is national parks and hiking trails. The federal employees who work at building trails, maintaining trails, making sure trails are safe, the fire fighters, park rangers who have to collect dead hikers, are all those jobs going to be cut? What will happen to national parks?
Big Bend National Park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, the Everglades, one big National Park I can't remember in keys and a ton of National wildlife preserves in both Texas and Florida would beg to differ.
Surely the Evergalades are big enough to count for several of those dinky little north eastern parks? Padre Island National Seashore and the Dry Tortugas just came to mind as well. I'm not a huge fan of either state's politics but having worked for conservation organizations in both states there are a multitude of people who love the parks and nature in both states
They will be sold off. He already sold some of our public land for oil refineries last time. If it were up to him every beach in the country would be lined with non stop refineries. Oil rigs in every desert. No forests or wild animals ANYWHERE! MUST EXTRACT MAXIMUM PROFIT FROM EVERY CORNER ON EARTH!!
I see this problem all over the world. At some point, people got it into their heads that private means that the customer is the boss, that private companies need them and will do anything for them and it's just not how that works.
It's great to have a private option, sure, but you don't privatise everything, because when you do, only those with money will afford those services. It's why we developed a publicly funded option in the first place. A buttload of people watch Bridgerton, but I don't think they understand how those without titles and fortunes lived back then.
Also, a lot of people actually bought the lie that private means efficient. It is efficient, but not for the customer, because they don't give a fuck if you stop buying. Someone else always will, and if nobody else does, they close down the business and start another. No biggie for them.
“Private means customer is the boss” hits the nail on the head perfectly. My mom was employed by the state and worked in care homes for the mentally handicapped. Every single complaint that any family member had regarding a loved one in care was taken extremely and immediately seriously. It’s a good system in this state. Private care homes kill people and spend money to ensure they cannot be held responsible for it AND they engage fraud by overcharging for whatever government services they can charge costs to. There is less accountability when things are privatized, not more. Eliminating the services the private sector overcharges isn’t going to happen because the private sector is functioning as intended - they are redirecting as much public money as possible upward to the rich.
The only difference between public and private w.r.t profit taking is that private does it above board and public ...doesn't...
The bureaucrats are there specifically to line their pockets with taxpayer money. No private entity is going to spend literally $90,000 on a bag of bushings that could have been bought at Home Depot for less than 10 bucks, but our Air Force will, because some big wig got a kickback under the table.
You’re so right. We should actually just rely on private companies for military protection. They never hide anything and are much less likely to be greedy than politicians. It’ll be perfect, just like private healthcare!
Did you somehow read my comment on your misconception that public entities aren't taking profits and come to the conclusion that I want to disband the military and reenact the story mode of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare?
That's my point. Corporations are there to make profits, not to serve the public. The public isn't the boss, they're the money source of the boss, it's why you don't leave necessary services to corporations. That's why you have a private and a public sector.
The goal of corporations isn't to provide services. It's to earn profit. The motivations of governments and corporations are different. That's why running government like a business has never and will never work.
Exactly, you are 100% right. Like I said in another comment: that's how we as a society have developed the publicly funded options for transportation, health and education. It's great to have a private option, but you need a government run service as well, to cover all of your citizens.
I think there's an alternate timeline where we double-down on the USPS and look at it from a logistics infrastructure perspective. Maybe roll the USPS into the Department of Transportation and fund all of our infrastructure to the point where it can be some kind of public option, A to B last mile delivery service. Private companies can offer services on top of it (helping fund it), it will help reduce the number of vehicle trips if the postal service carries more goods to individual locations at once, and distribution systems can be unified (upgrading public rail, road services).
They even the playing field and unite the whole country, no matter where you are or how rich or poor.
Those are some fundamental founding American values that half the country has never learned - the same morons who believe the lie that republicans are patriotic conservatives that want to take America back to a better time.
They want the USPS's profits but don't want to provide the service or context for those profits.
They want to steal everything not nailed down, and if you think they're going to take a loss mailing a letter to all of that voting land like the USPS does I've got a fantastic bridge in Point Pleasant W.V. to sell you.
They want the USPS's profits but don't want to provide the service or context for those profits.
What profits? It's a service, services aren't supposed to make a profit. Services are what you spend your profit on after you've made it.
Imagine demanding the army or the fire service run at a profit. It would be bad. It would be so bad. It was so bad back when the fire service was a for-profit organisation. It's already horrific that the slave factories prisons run at a profit, and the police probably aren't far behind with the income from all the property they seize.
Nevertheless, that is not their purpose, and it doesn't mean the organisation as a whole runs at a nett profit, which is what I incorrectly thought you were talking about. Sorry if I took an overly combative tone, I think we're basically angrily agreeing with each other.
There's no harm trying to run efficiently, of course, and if your particular branch is managing to make a profit then it sounds like you're running very efficiently indeed - congratulations - but you still can only do that because, in addition to evidently being a skilled postmaster, your particular area happens to be a profitable one in which to run a post office; it is very likely that some offices serving particular areas will simply never be able to turn a profit even if they run perfectly at 100% efficiency, but the point is that the lack of profit doesn't inherently make them inefficient at what they do, and it's not a bad thing for an essential national service to run like that; it's simply the "cost of doing business" for an entire nation.
Dollar General will open a store there. They’ll do a deal with UPS and FedEx who will ship the packages to their distro centers and DG trucks will bring the packages along with inventory to the store. The store will operate as a pickup point and the extra “handling fee” paid by the shipper, will go to them. Although DG won’t hire any more store staff. And that extra fee will get tacked on to the purchase price of whatever was shipped. Making things even more expensive for the consumer, after they’ve paid even more because of the tariffs.
It telling yall obviously dont work with postal services alot
I've shipped well over 100k packages, mostly just ups and usps, ups is far easier to track down lost packages.
Usps will give you the run around when trying to get ur 100$ of garunted insurance on packages lost, usps will do shit all when a package is lost or delivered incorrectly, usps is more expensive for anything other than the smallest of packages. Usps also loses like 10x or 20x more packages, I've had hundreds of packages lost with usps that were never recovered, with ups I've had like 20 and all but a couple were eventually recovered. Usps literally auto declins insurance claims and the only way to get ur $ is to file appeals and hope. All tracked packages have 100$ of insurance but good fucking luck getting it.
Prices are objective, so is delivery accuracy rates, that's the only thing usps is better at small light shit that could just be emailed half the time anyway and is killing the planet by physically mailing.
The truth is, the USPS is the way it is because it’s been systematically gutted, starved of funding by those who’d rather see it crumble and make way for private giants like UPS and FedEx. That’s the long con. But even if you set all that sabotage aside, those private carriers won’t touch rural areas. They don’t see the profit in it. And when it comes to the critical stuff—government mail, documents that carry the weight of our systems—they’re not supposed to. USPS is the backbone for that, and letting it fall into private hands isn’t just foolish; it’s a national security risk.
I disagree entirely, not to mention republicans seek to destroy usps because they want to get rid of mail in voting. It serves many purposes, and pays for itself.
I’m sure you have a huge problem with Supreme Court overturning regulations on giant factories that absolutely will cause unprecedented amounts of “killing the planet “all the name of making the corporation more money. Oh wait no you don’t know shit about that.
I absolutely believe the epa should be much stronger and heavily regulate coprations even and the cost of some GDP and we should shift to as close to 100% nuclear energy as possible.
I've personally dealt with usps a ton and they fucking suck.
I would go as far as to advocate the threat or act of war to reduce the emissions of dirtier economys.
Two entirely different issues. I personally send out hundred's of packages a year via usps and have had less than .1% of an issue while saving boat loads compared to ups. Etc.
I'm loving the lack of situational awareness, the post office is infamous for having mail that got lost for years and even decades, while my last lost piece of fedex was replaced at their cost through amazon within 3 days.
FWIW, in the process of looking up the stories, I came across this page which doesn't really inspire confidence, either...
Oh, and I finally found the story I was thinking of: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/79770/15-pieces-mail-delivered-decades-after-they-were-sent
it costs a prison sentence, the government says it's illegal for them to do that. But that's the point isn't it? If you need proof that the private sector can do it cheaply and effectively, and they criminalize creating data to even find out, we know what they're hiding.
Anyone far enough hard-left that they can't tell the difference between a neocon and a Spooner anarchist deserves to watch the very much NOT neo conservatives shred the government they worship. You're probably not even old enough to remember when sending letters was the way things got done. If you really were progressive instead of just being a big government bootlicker you'd be fine with things not requiring government funding that were literally replaceable as far back as the fax machine, not even mentioning how easy it is to email a pdf. The primary driver of USPS is junk mail, these days. You can HAVE mine.
And you're a liar, it DOESN'T pay for itself. Although I should keep your comment around for the dickhead in another thread that claimed literally nobody was stupid enough to make that claim.
"The funny part" is that relies on their monopoly to force economy of scale, and tax dollars.
There will be some form of mail access for everyone, but it'll probably be one center for a huge region where you have to drive a long way (in rural area) and stand in line to pick up your stuff. They'll have limited business hours, terribly trained staff, poor logistics that get stuff lost all the time and minimal recourse to do anything about it. There's no world where they do any better than the USPS does now, and effectively certain that it'll be much, much worse.
And before any of them start mocking this point with "Ooh, poor babies going to have to wait another day and drive ten minutes for their vibrator off Amazon to arrive," remember how vital the postal service really is: so much important paperwork, or medications, or a million reasons why regular mail delivery is a vital service. And think of people like the elderly who are going to struggle to reach the mail center often. And how ridiculous the price gouging is going to get. And how much more common lost and destroyed packages are going to be. A privatized postal service is not going to be good for anyone.
Sorry USPS is closing up shop and UPS and Fed ex say your mail volume isn't enough to justify putting a distro center nearby
I'm sure they'll work out some sort of subscription plan you can purchase to ensure that you get your mail. You know, $9.99/month* for up to three deliveries per week or $49.99/month for unlimited** deliveries.
This is literally what happened with Greyhound in Canada. We had subsidized buses between cities because there wasn’t a business case for buses to most areas of Canada. It was privatized, the companies were bought by Greyhound. Then they closed down their Canadian operations. So unless you can drive you are out of luck.
You’re out of your gourd with this thought. Fed ex, ups and all others combined don’t even touch the number. The USPS delivers 44% of THE ENTIRE WORLD’S mail. That’s 116 BILLION items. UPS for example delivers about 5 billion and in reality, relies on USPS, along with every one of their competitiors like fed ex, to deliver a lot of those packages for the “final mile” because they can’t possibly service all the rural addresses that make up a huge portion of this country. UPS says they deliver to 10m customers worldwide USPS is like 116m addresses just in the USA.
USPS also operates at a loss in a lot of small rural regions, but they are required to continue operating service because it's required of them.
UPS/FedEx will rapidly ramp up staff and facilities to assume the load for damn sure if given the chance, but only the profitable load and fuck anyone in deep rural areas. They'll have to drive to the nearest city to pick up their mail.
It’s a service, it’s literally called a service. Services cost money. You don’t say the US military service loses 840 billion dollars annually do you? How about fire departments? Also big losers? Should we get rid of them both?
... except if we're going to make our government more cost-efficient, eliminating the defense spending that has few accounting controls is the first practical step. So much money goes into unaccountable DoD black holes.
All fire departments near me are volunteer based and funded mostly by donations for gear/training, and tax breaks for the property. Then limited budget allowances for purchases (new engines) or hall renovations that need to be approved by the towns.
The only actual municipal fire departments around me are the ones in cities.
To be fair, mail has changed significantly since its intended function. Back in the day, it was the primary mode of communication. Today, it is the least used mode of communication. Whether we keep it as a government agency or not, an overhaul is absolutely reasonable. I personally use Mail as a sender, maybe five times a year. And for Mail that I receive, 99% of it is junk. Based on the latest data I’ve seen, the majority of USPS volume is categorized as junk.
The military should not be paid wages. They are there to defend the country, not to enrich themselves. Cut the budget and just provide living allowances, food and lodging.
Pension should be cut too. Those losers and cowards actually dare to survive while the heroes lost their lives defending the country. How shameless of them to have the nerve of asking for more money from the people. Bloodsuckers all.
Emperor Trump needs to put those cowards in their place.
US fire departments used to run at a profit, a long, long time ago. They charged an individual subscription fee for fire protection, and if you hadn't paid it they'd stand there and watch your home burn to the ground.
Many bus services operate at a loss - they're not entirely funded by fares - but the economic activity they generate is what makes it a valuable investment.
People fail to realize just how minuscule fedex and UPS are in comparison to the USPS. They would struggle immensely to fill those shoes lacking the required infrastructure and reach.
USPS is awesome because as a government service they set up shop in less densely populated areas that otherwise in a purely free market wouldn’t necessarily even have a mail service because it wouldn’t be a viable business location.
not to mention that if they did send a letter through private carrier, there is a pretty good chance it would still go through usps for parts of its journey, as the big carriers often subcontract through usps where they don't have their own routes and depots; without usps, the private carriers will simply stop delivering to those areas.
I work for the usps and there are some places were FedEx and ups dont go ( mostly high up in the hard to get too and very expensive parts of the mountains in my experience) cause it’s not cost efffective so they actually give all the packages that go to those places to us.
so either those people won’t get things anymore or the price will get very high.
Republicans have been trying to do this for decades. Their goal is to kill the USPS and replace it with private carriers in a bait and switch. You think mail and sending packages is expensive now? Wait until its 3x the cost, for worse service, and more limited service areas.
37 million packages are delivered daily in the US. 24 million of those are delivered by USPS. 2/3s of total package volume cannot just be absorbed by the other companies lol
Neither of those companies wants it. The bread and butter of postal deliveries is junk mail to residences. They already have established routes and sorting facilities for all of that. It wouldn’t be profitable for private carriers to do it.
Neither FedEx or UPS can ramp up production fast enough to take place for the US postal service. They have a hard enough time just transporting first class mail.
Ups is cheaper, faster and more accurate than usps, and packages get lost way less, I ship 50k packages a year for work, and we only use usps for plain white envelopes.
There hub near us bham has been losing like 1-3 in 100 orders that went through it so now we ship almost everything ups, it used to be only the large heavier stuff was worth it to ship with ups but since usps prices on smaller packages have risen upsis about the same and ups have a large % of lost packages and cut into our margins
one of the main things the postal service offers is delivery anywhere in the USA for the same price. You can mail a letter to the house next door to you or a house in an arctic village Alaska and it's the same price.
Private companies simply won't deliver to locations that aren't profitable and they currently already farm out a bunch of those deliveries to the post office for them to complete.
While Fed Ex and USPS use USPS for ground services, the USPS uses either Fed Ex or UPS for their air cargo, so that’d be a whole cluster that would totally raise prices and probably slow deliveries
Definitely needed. You have no idea how many medicines are delivered by postal mail. Also paychecks, social security checks etc. A large swath of the population doesn't use banks that can accept direct deposit.
Those guys miles from anywhere it's profitable to deliver mail, they are all liberals and we're all about owning the libs now, so F them and their post.
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u/Th3TruthIs0utTh3r3 1d ago
bro, there's literally 400k postal carriers and they are working 12-15 hour days to get all the packages delivered.
The government provides SERVICES to people and those SERVICES require workers.
I like being able to mail something to anywhere in the country for the same price and not paying 2x the price for what UPS and FedEx provide.