2d ago

US: Unions say privatizing postal services in Europe have led to reduced services, increased prices, job losses, and cut off rural communities

uniglobalunion.org Unions resist Trump’s threats to privatize U.S. Postal Service

UNI Global Union’s U.S. affiliates in the postal sector are fighting back after President Trump recently reiterated his desire to privatize the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), which celebrates its 250th anniversary this year. “Make no mistake, the postal service is under attack,” warned Mark Dimondstein...

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2d ago

US: Unions say privatizing postal services in Europe have led to reduced services, increased prices, job losses, and cut off rural communities

uniglobalunion.org /news/unions-resist-trumps-threats-to-privatize-u-s-postal-service/

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I mean, yeah.

If the postal service is privatized a lot of rural communities simply won't get mail because it isn't profitable to service them.

Never believe in the "efficiency" of markets. The claimed benefits onky operate under very spexifix conditions and for a limited time, then monopoly finance capital takes over and jacks up prices, makes the product worse, and goes after workers even harder. Even under the conditions where the claimed benefits of market efficiency function, the overall situation is still glaringly inefficient and full of pointless redundancy. Like having 7 CEOs insteas of one administrator, 7 independent markwting deoartments all fighting against eqch other, big legal teams that exist solely to protect/take profits for the company, the managerial structure to keep workers from demanding more, even demanding basic dignity.
The only thing capitalism is good at is making a large volume of products to make the most money they can. It harma everything else.

As we said when I was very young, "No, doy."