Deconstructing Government: the post office
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The post office is just one more government agency which gives out benefits as if it were 1970, not 2011, ie, both defined benefit pensions plus paid retiree health care, both long gone in the overwhelming majority of private sector workers. In fact, it's keeping up with that that is the reason they want $5 billion. Outrageously, they want to tax people who don't have those benefits any more to keep making plutocrats out of people who just drop letters off.
I can overnight a large package (a box that originally held six gallons of windshield washer fluid) from Massachusetts to Arizona for less than $200. Absurd hyperbole undermines your argument.
Yes and does FedEx or UPS handle the same amount of rural , 50 mile trip for 3 stops mail that the USPS does?
The postal service has made all customers subsidize the weirdos who want to live in the middle of a wilderness, and expect toi pay the same rate. There's no reason at all why that should be the case, and in a privatized system, they'd pay what they deserved to pay.
USPS only does that because the rest of us subsidize it to make it happen. It is arguably not necessary. But don't take my word for it- let the price mechanism figure it out. If the cost is too high for home delivery, the people can go to the nearest fedex or town center or whatever and pick up their mail. It really isn't a big deal and would save everyone a lot of money. Heck, even the USPS doesn't deliver to some of the most rural areas (there are a few small towns near where my parents live where mail is only delivered to one spot in the town and everyone goes there to pick it up).
There is a cost to convenience- that needs to be remembered.
I never thought about THAT part of it before. Good point. Its like, people who want to live in the ar tic wilderness can expect to pay a lot of money for basic supplies to come in, right?
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