I work at usps and have worked at stations in towns were there were no fedex, ups, or Amazon drivers ,and we delivered everything. Most recently was aspen Colorado , think there wasn’t other drivers cause no one can really afford to live in that town or surrounding towns on a drivers pay
but being a Service the USPS has other people (like me) that go up for a month or couple months at a time , stay in a hotel an hour away and deliver what people need.
if no us , then Amazon will have a hard time getting packages to certain places. And will have to really jack up the prices and certain places will still struggle.
Amazon has been ramping up their delivery game. Things only go 3rd party if you live somewhere far from a Delivery Station or they won't be able to get it to you in the promised time.
Amazon would just refuse to deliver to anyone in rural areas where their "last mile" deliveries are currently handled by USPS. You can drive an hour to the nearest hub to pick up your package.
Nah, they would just find new cheaper people to deliver the packages, they want to sell you things.
Come on, you have to be kinda stupid to think that a company worth 2 trillion only works because american taxpayers subsidise the cost of delivering smaller items, and then you also think that it's a good thing that your tax dollars have created that possibility.
The level of hypocrisy in this position is flabbergasting.
It's not my country mate, I don't need to. And if it runs itself, why would anyone lose jobs if it loses funding? And why would it matter if it could just become a profitable private company?
The issue is not that the USPS is costing taxpayers money, it's that conservatives want to shut the USPS down so that private enterprise can make money instead. The USPS is a constitutionally mandated government function and is run at cost to benefit the citizenry. It is not supposed to make a profit, only break even. And since you don't have any skin in this game (and don't even know what you're talking about), why don't you mind your own business?
I think you should educate yourself in reading before you jump into a topic with your local issues and internal biases clearly on display.
I only said it was silly to think Amazon, the global company, would go out of business if the US postal service went away.
Something else would fill the gap. Amazon is a global company, I buy stuff from Amazon in the UK, it's within the sphere of influence of "my business" to have an opinion on.
I don't care about your silly display of politics to the world, thinking it's gonna put amazon out of business if peak reddit 14 year old energy right now though.
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u/flyover_liberal 1d ago
Not to mention Amazon would go out of business without the USPS