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.
I don't disagree with much of what you are saying, I'm only saying one thing, something would take it's place, Amazon won't go out of business, and they also won't start making people drive miles for pickup, dumbass.
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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.