New U.S. Postal Service head says he doesn't believe in privatizing the mail agency
New U.S. Postal Service head says he doesn't believe in privatizing the mail agency
www.npr.org /2025/07/18/nx-s1-5472720/new-usps-postmaster-general-privatization
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I'm hoping he's being truthful. I not only believe the post office should not be privatized but should be subsidized. It's a vital government service.
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He probably wants to read your mail.
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If he is so willing, Id be more than happy to direct the 8 credit card offers capital one sends me every week to his mailbox and away from mine. They must have killed at least two full trees by now sending me the same bullshit shit every week for years
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Yeah, the fact that the USPS has been able to fully financially support itself (in spite of congress continuously trying to kill it) is a testament to the fact that it’s a vital service.
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They transport trash. Literally.
Their business model is collecting literal trash, in bulk, from various businesses, and evenly distributing it to every residence in the nation. From there, that trash is deposited directly into solid waste streams, recollected by sanitation engineers, and transported to landfills.
The only value the postal service brings is establishing a baseline price for low-speed package delivery that keeps UPS and FedEx from jacking their prices to the moon.
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It's not a business. It's a service.
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You probably are unaware that both UPS and FedEx both contract USPS to deliver their parcels. Both last mile and long distance as well. A lot of packages are picked up by USPS their UPS store, and delivered to another UPS store, after a nice markup.
Also neither UPS or FedEx deliver or have any interest in delivering to every address I the US and its territories.
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This is what they do now. Some counties and cities tax junk mail, this is very effective. When my city did this, it so affected the amount of paper being recycled that the city worried that people were no longer interested in the recycling program (they figured it out). You can't blame the USPS for junk mail. They deliver, as fast as they can, and that's it.
One thing that should be brought back to the post, and my president, Elizabeth Warren, agrees, is payday check loans. That used to be a USPS service, and it was very popular. The payday loans were always locked with interest no higher than inflation, so it wasn't a disaster if you got one. In the 1940s. the USP Savings System held billions in receipts, and was so trusted that even the rich invested in it.
When banks returned to full health, the "government monopoly" was taken from the USPS and ended up in the hands of a bunch of predatory check cashing companies that you now see littering every struggling neighborhood in the USA, except in the few places they're banned. Ironically, the 1980s destroyed the small town community bank (part of Reagan's legacy was the S&L scandal), which were supposed to be replacing the USPS, and the extortionists proliferated. Major banks are now in the game, offering payday/salary loans with 200-300% introductory rates.
Blame this guy.
It goes without saying, the business of payday loans hits the poor hard. Interest can reach 1000% if payments are missed, it's hell. In contrast, the USPSS helped establish credit for millions of working poor people in America. Even when it was judged "redundant" in the late 60s, over a million people still had an account with USPS. And nobody ever talks about it.
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Weird Trump replaced Dejoy
Even weirder Biden didn't
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Hard to believe DeJoy stepped down. Guess he got an offer from a right wing think tank or something.
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No, he had literally done everything he set out to, and packed it in. He accomplished his mission.
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Because maintaining the USPS is a federal obligation as stated in the fucking Constitution. Anyone that doesn't understand this hates America and has AIDS.
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Why would they start listening to the Constitution now?
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Come on now let's be civil, even AIDS patients understand the Constitution 😝
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So he is there to kill it.
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and senators and congresspersons keep voting for bills that they oppose
reality is topsy-turvy and i honestly don't have a handle on wtf
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So, he is actively in the process of privatizing the Postal Service.
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Well, he's fired in 3..2..
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Dems: but but but you need a quorum and the procedures say that
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What they say and what they do is two different things.
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Why the fuck this is even something that is in question is just crazy, but that's the insidiousness of a right wing cult that keeps shifting everything to the extremist right wing.
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Yeah, ok.
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I think all the mentions of post and letters (in terms of what is allowed and regulations) in the us constitution only apply to USPS and not private companies like UPS.
I wonder if that's positive or negative in terms of ie. privacy
I don't believe a thing these people have to say at this point.