Privatize the U.S. Postal Service?

[TheScarletBlade]

I am not very smart. I do not sleep so I read. That is all. I was raised blue-collar, multicultural, biracial, working class in white 50s Americana on the shattered remains of a multigenerational one-language (not English) family homestead/farm.

I am a Democrat. These are not my grandfather's Democrats any more than they are MLK's Democrats.

I vote Libertarian now to reclaim reason, that which was before the age of altruist and crusade.

So the ultimate troll!

Too indoctrinated to vote republican but to proud to claim MAGA even though it stand for what you believe lol.

Thats great though. To many CNN addicted people don't realize the democrat party left them in 1964 lol.

 

[BAstoicguy]

I don't do ascription and pigeonholing anymore.

Too much like playing chess with board-shitters.

 

[Celand]

... and why not?

Royal Mail will be sold to a Czech billionaire in a £3.6bn deal, taking the postal service out of British ownership for the first time in 500 years. Ministers have given the green light to the sale of Royal Mail to Daniel Kretinsky, the tycoon known as the “Czech sphinx”.

 

[Politruk]

Are they not paying for themselves or are the not broke??

Can't be both ya communist fucktard.

It's kinda the point of a public service -- that it is not something that could be run profitably as a business, but it's still a worthwhile thing to have around, and that's why taxes fund it.

This isn't even high-school civics, it's stuff most of us learn in elementary school.

 

[UltraChad]

I literally can't answer a direct question. Ever. My dishonest slithering and sliming like the communist pile of shit that I am doesn't allow me to do such things.

I know Politruk.... I know.

You just can't help what you are.

 

[BAstoicguy]

You saw #73? I had pre-answered for him.


(He may not have understood it for what it was.)

 

[Wat_Tyler]

He wasn't listening . . . .

 

[BAstoicguy]

He wasn't listening . . . .

Saw something else

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Saw something else

P-Nut the squirrel!!!!

 

[heathrowinneo]

Apparently Trump wants to.

But why?

A chance to raise delivery of mail from $1.5[ to $15.00

 

[TrailerHitch]

On the contrary, I think that we are only at the beginnings of a communications revolution. Within 10 years I think it is more than likely that we will have some sort of chip 'AI implant' allowing us to communicate with whom and whatever we choose wherever we are. In 1975 the telex was advanced communication, within 10 years the fax was the latest, and by 1995 emails were well founded. Emails will soon be old hat and the mobile phone won't last too much longer.

And my 'lifetime' is a limited horizon.

The Brits privatized a number of monopolies and it was a disaster, because they were still monopolies doing the same old things. Better to question their need to exist at all before jumping to conclusions.

You may desire an AI chip implant but I believe many will not go along with that idea. Me being one of them.

 

[Politruk]

You may desire an AI chip implant but I believe many will not go along with that idea. Me being one of them.

They'll be implanted at birth. In everybody but the babies of the kinds of parents who go to a midwife so they can duck out before filling out the birth certificate.

 

[TrailerHitch]

They'll be implanted at birth. In everybody but the babies of the kinds of parents who go to a midwife so they can duck out before filling out the birth certificate.

Not a chance, people will fight that tooth and nail. Well, except you libs who love being owned and manipulated.

 

[Bn2f]

Well, except you libs who love being owned and manipulated.

I approve of consenting adults having sex, but this is not the right choice of words for you to insult libs when you want to be nailed and pegged and possibly have the lil missus watch. Just sayin.

 

[Politruk]

Not a chance, people will fight that tooth and nail. Well, except you libs who love being owned and manipulated.

The kind of parents who go to a midwife so they can duck out before filling out the birth certificate ain't doing their kids any favors. And neither will the chip-resisters.

 

[Politruk]

Parents don't do their kids any favors by homeschooling them, either.

 

[Politruk]

I know Politruk.... I know.

You just can't help what you are.

I answered straight. "Broke" here means "non-functional," not "financially insolvent. The Postal Service, public transportation systems, and other public services ain't broke."

 

[Sct73]

Apparently Trump wants to.

But why?

He can’t. Trump is just plain stupid.
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is established in the Constitution under Article I, Section 8, Clause 7, which grants Congress the power to establish post offices and post roads. This clause has been the foundation for the development of the postal system in the U.S.

 

[UltraChad]

Not a chance, people will fight that tooth and nail. Well, except you libs who love being owned and manipulated.

That's why they aren't libs....they're communist.

Liberals are pro-liberty....demcorats fucking LOATHE liberty of any sort and that makes it impossible for them to be liberals. They hide behind a lie of a label so they don't seem as terrible as they actually are right up front.

 

[UltraChad]

I answered straight. "Broke" here means "non-functional," not "financially insolvent. The Postal Service, public transportation systems, and other public services ain't broke."

Being both is a good enough reason to shit can it.

 

[ishtat]

The Postal Service is a specified constitutional function of the federal government. It has operated with reasonable efficiency since the beginning of the Republic.

The US PS has 626,000 employees to service 330 million people. The India postal service has 440,000 employees to service 4.5 times as many people. Reasonable efficiency- possibly not?

The biggest problem the USPS has is the need to generate sufficient cash flow to fund ongoing pension liabilities from the fairly recent past when it had 750,000 employees

 

[BAstoicguy]

Are those workers part of a government union?

Where both sides of the labor negotiating table sit on one side negotiating among friends what to do with someone else's money? You want how much? You want your mail? *laughing* Okay. Here it is! That was tough. Drinks? What do you say, we keep the negotiations going for a week? It's close to election...

 

[TrailerHitch]

The kind of parents who go to a midwife so they can duck out before filling out the birth certificate ain't doing their kids any favors. And neither will the chip-resisters.

If you want to be a chip implanted, government controlled drone, then go ahead. But you communists like that shit don't you comrade?

 

[Politruk]

Being both is a good enough reason to shit can it.

The P.O. is neither insolvent nor non-functional.

 

[ishtat]

You may desire an AI chip implant but I believe many will not go along with that idea. Me being one of them.

They will call it something like Apple 25, charge a fee minimum of $2000, ($3000) for the gold sparkly one, and the mugs will queue up for them.

After all we already buy cars that track us all day and computers which act as a conduit to supply our personal details to commercial interests. We are a lot closer to that chip than most folk think.