Trump considers privatizing US Postal Service, Washington Post reports

Looks like Trump and the Republicans will finally succeed with what trump started eight years ago with letting DeJoy fuck the postal service.

Good luck old people in getting your medications by mail, assholes.

That pretty much goes without saying.

"Privatization" the way the Republicans do it might as well have been tailor-made to appeal to Trump.

Imagine the sales pitch:

"Okay now Mr. President, see this program over here that's carried out by government employees? Just imagine that instead of having government employees do it, we contract with some private company to do it. The government would still be paying for it, but instead of all of that money going to a government agency, it goes to some private company that'd damned well better show their gratitude if they expect to keep that contract."

I can just see him, like Scrooge McDuck, with a dippy smile on his face and dollar signs in his eyes.

We are just beginning to enter the nightmare Twilight Zone of FAFO.

Ask the Brits how they like their privatized royal mail these days.

Shipping would get soooo expensive. I ship all over the US and the pricing from UPS and FedEx stays competitive with USPS, and often USPS will do the last mile delivery in more rural zones. If you remove the limiting price point that the USPS provides to the market, these private shippers will raise prices so high, so fast, it'll make your head spin.

The margins these companies are willing to charge an individual is actually obscene. I ship pallets every so often, so I have a FedEx freight shipping contract. It discounts my freight costs ~90%. For anyone without a business and no contract they're happy to charge you 10x more they need to. They profit off the price they charge me, they rake you over the coals because they can. If they have more opportunities to do that, they will.

"The U.S. Postal Service, which has lost more than $100 billion since 2007,"

How much did the military "lose" during the same period? It "lost" $842 billion last year and it's proposed next year "loss" is $849.8 billion.

It's not a fucking business with a profit motive, that's the dumbest way to conceptualize a government.

Edit: 2007-2022 was $11,293.64B, 2023-2024 was $1,624B. The US military budget for the same period USPS cost $100B was $12,917.64 billion dollars.

Edit edit: counted 2022 twice

This seems unambiguously up to Congress since a “post office and postal roads” are specifically mentioned as part of Article I of the constitution but who the fuck knows in the Calvinball judicial era?

Just to be clear, it says, “may” setup a post office not “shall” and some FedEx executive with a briefcase full of cash could probably convince at least 4 SCOTUS judges to vote for something. But Jeff Bezos and whoever owns the greeting card industry — Hallmark, I guess — might have larger briefcases of cash so we’ll see who wins. (Not us. We’re losing either way. But Amazon vs. FedEx and every company that has to mail records by law — health insurance and banks probably being the big ones — means nothing is guaranteed and it’ll take decades of court cases to sort out.)

The qons are getting revved up for the looting and the pillaging.

Remember to keep that Samuel L. Jackson clip ready when the dumbasses start complaining about what they FUCKING VOTED FOR.

Only USPS is actually private.

By law, first-class mail is sealed against inspection, meaning that government officials may not open it without first getting a warrant from a judge.

FedEx and UPS don’t provide the same protections from unlawful searches.

I'll be forced to vote in person if that happens (If voting even matters at that point). Fuckity fuck.

Would be a shame if a strike happened and people had to rely on expensive private shipping companies.

Honestly the postal service is a source of more irritation in my life than benefit at this point. So... of all the crazy shit Trump wants to do it's hard to get super upset about this one.

Edit: Y'all have reading comprehension issues. I am not saying the postal service should be privatized but let's see between ending democracy and the rule of law, banning life-saving healthcare, and inflicting violent deportation on millions of US residents using the military, bombing Mexico, and supporting Israeli genocide is this really the thing to focus on?