Trump eyes privatizing United States Postal Service during second term

It reminds me of how the right-wing politicians are trying to privatize Correios (the Brazilian Postal Service) here in Brazil. They alleged a similar thing: financial losses, inefficiency, and so on. While Correios doesn't offer a really wonderful service, it's really doubtable if a private company would improve it (spoiler: it won't).

the conservative push to destroy this incredibly successful organization continues. its already been punished more than any other entity by requiring things no other business anywhere is required to.

starve the beast. theyve forced it to make financial considerations that now put it in pretend financial trouble so they can point at it as a failure.

if the USPS was allowed to run as any other business today it would be far more successful on paper than it already is, but conservatives just cant live with that.

For fuck's sake, it's not meant to make money, it's a public service - it's literally in the name!

I wish more countries governments would get their head out of their capitalistic arses and understand that the services they run aren't meant to be profitable - that's what taxes are meant to be for!

The postal service doesn't lose money, it costs money.

By this logic, the interstate highway system and the military both lose billions! Is Trump going to privatize them too?

Every thing the gop has done to the usps had hurt it more... but everytime I hear "it doesn't make money" well it did before the absolutely idiotic idea to make sure pensions were super funded forward. Ontop of that. Why the fuck does a government organization need to make money? I hate this whole "run a country like a business" bullshit so much. Money makes everything worse.

Its almost funny how cartoonishly evil the Republicans are. They literally are shutting down all public utilities, giving contracts to the rich, spending trillions in the name of "cutting spending", kicking out random people, and im pretty sure a Republican has openly decared friendship to be his greatest enemy (because "woke" or smth). If this was a simulation the developers are getting extremely lazy with this plotline, the villans are literally just evil.

Citing the USPS’s financial losses, Trump argued the agency should not rely on government subsidies.

It already doesn't. USPS is entirely internally funded. What a fucking idiot.

Oh, the financial losses that can be directly linked back to Louis DeJoy's actions while in charge to actively sabotage the service, the same DeJoy that Trump appointed to sabotage the service?

They murdered it so they could sell it off, don't let them claim otherwise

Fuck the fascists. We fought the British over less tyrannical shit than what Trump is promising.

Wow, so wild that the agency you crippled with a nonsensical pension funding requirement is no longer running as efficiently as you demand! what a huge surprise, no one could have seen this coming!

Super cool that the Democrats didn't reverse that insane requirement btw.

doesn't USPS have some special legal status? how are supposed to be things like court orders delivered if not by national mail carrier?

It isn't a business, it is a service, it costs money that our taxes pay, so we don't have to pay shitty private companies. (And it still makes money) "Let's make the Mail just like ISPs" is a stupid take.

Given the country's current mood, is it really wise for the oligarchs to threaten the livelihoods of the very group that gave us the expression going postal?

United Tesla Shipping...UTS

United Tesla Institute... UTI

Shipping Tesla Institution...STI

So many possibilities!

I'm not an accelerationist, but what's left to do now except bathe in the worm glow of our country burning down?

There is no arguing that America doesn't deserve all the bad things, and maybe a good old fashioned conflagration would straighten the survivors out for a generation or two.

Quid pro Bezos

Yeah, good luck with that.

Sincerely,

The UK, where we already had that stupid fucking idea.

The Postal Service is in the United States Constitution, Article I:

Section. 8.

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

Clause 7:

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

US Constitution text / archive.gov

Republicans wish to destroy any public service. That has always been their mission.

And how would you privatize an entity that's in the Constitution? I wonder how that'd look....

IF THEY PRIVATIZE THE FUCKING MAIL I AM GOING TO SCREAM. Is nothing sacred?

Meanwhile in France

"Post offices are everywhere, private banks don't have locations outside cities... How about we create our own bank linked to the postal services!"

Does everything have to be a business to this guy? Some things are government services bcz they need to be done, and private businesses wouldn't make money off it. Not everything needs to be an attempt at making money off people.

We need another mangione to put him out of our misery

My country did that long ago. Works worse every year.. sometimes I have to wait for my Mail for a week. Used to be 24h.

There's a HUGE real estate incentive here. Yeah the service can make tons of money for whatever company comes in but the real estate imo is the big one.

You Americans will have to fix the shit this idiot breaks for generations to come.

I don't think he will actually be able to pull this off. All federal agencies use USPS because they are govt employees, there are tons and tons of policies written about what has to be sent using USPS. Sure he probably could try to do this, but I imagine he will get a fair bit of pushback internally

Again?

I'm actually surprised that the USPS still exists in its current form. In several European countries, there's now very limited postal service because people just aren't sending regular mail anymore. It's all email and packages. As a result, public postal service have either been more or less shut down or privatized into a parcel service.

Meh. The usps delivers mostly junk mail. Occasionally they deliver a bill. The packages they deliver could be covered by others. There will be gaps in rural areas of course. But those are the people who steadfastly vote for smaller government. So they most be okay with it. I say, let it go. Junk mail will cease because a private business would have to charge to much. Bills and such would go electronic... like the denial letter from anthem that they rufused to tell me the contents of. That all sounds good to me.