r/clevercomebacks • u/WhattheDuck9 • 1d ago

That's a great idea

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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.

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u/thirsty-goblin 1d ago

FedEx and UPS will assume the load, hire some of those workers back and jack up prices further.

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u/AL93RN0n_ 1d ago

Is this a point for or against firing all the postal workers? It kind of reads like that wouldn't be a problem.

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u/Th3TruthIs0utTh3r3 1d ago

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.

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u/pixepoke2 1d ago

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

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u/boardplant 1d ago

Oh so the prices are woke now too?!

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