It’s time once again to stand up for the most popular government agency of all, the one that curiously has come under the most consistent attack by the Trump administration and its congressional henchpersons.
We’re talking about the U.S. Postal Service. According to a survey last year by the Pew Research Center, 90% of the public has a favorable view of the USPS, handily outdistancing even such other popular agencies as the National Park Service and NASA.
Yet the conservative drumbeat for privatizing this crucial service never seems to slacken, even though privatization, which would inevitably mean crummy service and immense price increases, would be the surest route to turning public admiration for the USPS into public scorn.
The latest allusion to the privatization campaign came just after Christmas from Fortune, which predicted that privatization could happen as early as this year.
That’s almost certainly an overestimate, since fully privatizing the Postal Service might face constitutional issues and would certainly require action from Congress. Lawmakers tend to talk loudly about doing something about the Postal Service, but invariably quail even at incremental measures such as ending Saturday delivery or closing local post offices.
If there’s a government service that should absolutely not be “run like a business,” it’s delivering the mail. Treating universal mail service as something that must compete profitably with commercial carriers or die is a dumb and antidemocratic idea, and conservatives should just drop it.
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Trump hates blacks
Dude, put down the crack pipe…. Trump has done more for African Americans than the last President did.
Barry Obammy just gave away food stamps… Trump is creating jobs…. just ask your boy Kayne West.
Trump wants to sell off the package business and not allow collective bargaining for employee wages….he can accomplish this by executive order… once the package business is sold off, the postal service will be a shell of its former self…. that’s when the
second round of plant closings will commence…. buyouts will ensue so job cuts can be accomplished through attrition… it’s going to be tough going in the year of the rat!!!
Join the unemployment line, I was reduced and I don’t feel remorse for any other USPS employee. I was told 5 years ago this would happen in 2020 regardless of who was the sitting president. Buckle up and let it happen!!
If they recommend privatizing the p.o. just let the usps set it’s own rates and compete with private companies,stop the politics and stop letting private companies and big mailers dictate and restrict the p.o from completing and becoming profitable
No chance it’s sold off this year or the near future with a Democrat controlled House and many Republicans against it.It hasn’t been discussed in either chamber and even Trump’s partisan task force recommended against it. The writer doesn’t understand that the president does not appoint the PMG,the BOG does. Also,if it happened,how will the retirement for several hundred thousand be funded? It will fall on the federal government.
Read all the negative google reviews of the post office at 1828 East Park Row in Arlington TX 76010 and you will know why people HATE the USPS so much. Thus is the same at 95% of post offices. Lazy rude employees like the mailman that was just caught kicking the customers package across the street on Youtube. I hope you go out of business. You don’t deserve the high pay, 10 paid holidays, 13 paid sick leave days and 5 weeks vacation per year.
you know nothing