Originally Posted by
NightTrain
USPS hemorrhages millions each and every day. It's a loser and has been for decades.
UPS, FedEx and DHL are private alternatives that are profitable. Sell USPS off and let the new owners turn it around, reorganize, raise rates, whatever has to be done.
Yeah, we'll all pay more for our Amazon stuff, but paying artificially low rates while private industry is directly competing is insane and not supposed to be how it works.
In this electronic age, it isn't nearly as critical as it once was. Now it's primarily a retail goods delivery service.
Sell it off or let it die. Let private industry solve it efficiently like we all know it does.
Our steel industry isn't supposed to be artificially propped up either but it is.
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