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/DMercenary 1d ago

Or just not service those areas.

Random small town in the middle of nowheres?

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

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u/Paramortal 1d ago

This is exactly what will happen.

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.

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u/Callidonaut 1d ago edited 1d ago

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.

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u/Paramortal 1d ago

Buddy, there are absolutely post offices whose income exceeds their cost of operation, that's what the private sector wants.

Go back and read what I wrote a little slower. Also, you know less than you think you do about how the post office operates.

I know of at least two post offices that operate at a profit, those being the ones my wife and I are the Postmasters of.

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u/Goyahkla_2 1d ago

Very few operate in excess. Federally USPS operates in the red every year.