@xephyr1000
Imagine if a Trump loyalist was given the responsibility to deliver mail in voting ballets from a Democratic district?
@WesleyMcCammon
Not to mention PBS. I get so angry when they talk about not funding PBS.
@alenahubbard1391
It was a mistake when it was made semi-private corporation in '71.
@MrZauberelefant
First they came for the postal workers, i didn't speak up, as I wasn't a postal worker....
@ObsoleteEvil
They'll privatize it and then give it massive government subsides so that an already obscenely rich person can become even richer.
@jan-rs6im
USPS is my main hot button - no other service serves virtually every person in the US - thanks for posting Steve
@Zatnicatel
We privatised the Royal Mail and it didn't do us any harm!. Oh wait...
@milohobo9186
I want to expand the postal services to include banking and becoming a public internet provider.
@edwardoscissormanos469
My great uncle Ron... A wounded veteran on the VA, then after a failed business as a TV sales and repair store owner, became a 40 year postal postal worker collecting government pension... Ron votes republican every time. The R party is trying to destroy the benefits that brought him a comfortable retirement despite his entrepreneurial best efforts. He is very a low informed Reagonite and stubborn... and I pity him and the rest of his fellow Iowans that will be hit hardest by repub policy.
@sikwilly45
As a postal worker, there's a lot that I could say, but I don't want to write a novel. So thank you, and Happy Holidays.
@ScotHarkins
They have long wanted to privatize the USPS, along with that closing remote post offices as "unprofitable". That would abandon rural and outlying communities.
Certified mail is a fundamental requirement for many kinds of legal notifications. ("Registered mail" is a different thing, but most folks refer to "registered mail" when they mean "certified mail".) Dropping such a service would have an enormous impact on thousands of jurisdictions that legally rely on the US Postal Service for delivering bills, notifications, and legal notices (by certified mail).
The financial "instability" of the USPS is an artificial creation of a Congress that wants to run the USPS into the ground so they can then point at it as an example of how "government can't help but mess it up" so they could get an amendment to remove the mandate. It has been working in the defunding of the public school system, so folks feel like they MUST turn to private (for profit) or chartered schools with public money.
The USPS used to offer small-scale banking services, which included depository accounts. These were amazingly useful for the otherwise unbanked. Guess who paid (lobbied) to get that dropped...and why.
@ScarletKnight2099
That happened here in the uk, it wasn't and still isn't good
@Where_is_Waldo
Canada's postal service is currently on strike and needs our support. Many postal workers were laid off, increasing the workload of the remaining workers without an increase in pay and their pensions are being threatened. Many people are ignoring the need to support them because their services are needed but that doesn't nullify the need to treat the workers as people. Class solidarity, it's important.
@farrahupson
It's weird how so many Americans can support the idea of getting rid of tens of thousands of good paying American jobs with actual benefits, and in exchange get more Amazon-type jobs, higher costs, and then send all of the "savings" from doing so into the pockets of the same few rich people who have most of the money already.
@champaignsunrise
Steve, you hit the proverbial nail on the head! That is the existential difference between Democrats and Republicans. Not only are they motivated to make as much money as they possibly can, but also to do it at any cost, including, taking it from the less fortunate.
@pyrocard
It's definitely the worst idea I've ever heard in relation to the postal service.
@letefte
Can you imagine making the Post Office work like an Amazon warehouse? That’s a horror movie’s setup right there.
@KevinFeeley_KHF
I mean...the Secret Service doesn't make a profit. It was not specified in the founding documents...therefore.....
@jaradams
I don't know where I got the idea, but I always thought the government exists in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, whatever it costs in terms of money, status, or lives.
@OptimusWombat