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Steve Shives gives a powerful condemnation of the Republicans' inclination to privatize the U.S. Post Office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikki4TLiDB4

Whether they like it or not, they can't legally do that because the U.S. Post Office is a constitutionally mandated public service. The Republican rejection of the very idea of providing public service to U.S. Citizens is morally reprehensible. The main purpose of any legitimate government is ultimately to serve the people it is supposed to govern, not to further enrich without limit the wealth and power of the government officials elected to govern and serve the best interests of those who elected them. How has this dismissal of the hallowed responsibility of elected officials and government employees to serve the American people to the best of their ability become so alien to the once respectable Republican party?

Good postal workers not only deliver the mail, but they have been known to serve the people in other ways as well. For example, as one commentator to his video pointed out:

The United States Postal Service, even in its present state, is a phenomenal service. In addition to last-mile service, which makes rural life so much easier, having mobile people in your neighborhood provides a community service. I know of two specific instances of people who had fallen or suffered a seizure in their home and were helped because the mail carrier noticed a break in their routines. They were used to seeing these people out and about.

Public services provide connection that businesses simply cannot.

There is nothing inherently wrong with having commercial alternatives to the USPS (like UPS and FedEx) as well, but no other service serves virtually every person in the US or less expensively. Completely privatizing the Postal Service is not only constitutionally illegal but would do an unconscionable disservice to the American public and would further demonstrate that Trump cares only about things that personally benefit himself and his already obscenely wealthy associates and donors.

Amazon mail service. Wait for it.

I effing hate the GOP. It's a cancer.

Kishkumen wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 18, 2024 5:42 pm

I effing hate the GOP. It's a cancer.

I think that the first Republican President, and greatest President would roll over in his grave if he could realize what his party has become!

I have no love for the US postal service. I can't recall the last mistake Amazon or UPS made in a delivery, and USPS is at a mistake per week. There is no point arguing with them or providing feedback, the best you can do is stop one of them and try to nicely point out the problem and hope they don't take offense and then sabotage your mail on purpose, because there's no accountability and you have no practical recourse. My stories alone are unending, and it's a multitude of kinds of problems. If there's a rough equivalent to charter schools where local providers can try to do it better and cheaper I'd be up for that. But "privatizing" it top-down with Elon or any of Trump's grifters in charge would be the last thing you'd want to do. They'll all get richer with no accountability whatsoever and they'll make billions whether successful or not.

Yes. Why add a charge through privatization to postal rates? This is the downside of privatization, take something and add layers of private bureaucracy and we end up paying more. Sure, if a private company can do a better job, great. However, I would want price controls due to the government monopoly that would be given to the political patronage.