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this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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The post office is not supposed to be a business
Stop treating it like a business
It’s a government provided service (gasp, a social service!) so citizens can communicate.
No wonder they want to take it away from us.
The USPS needs to take a long, hard look at their Money Order, and pivot toward basic consumer banking. They were the first widespread service for money transfers. They need to return to that core competency. They should issue checking accounts and bank cards (rivaling Visa and Mastercard) for anyone who wants one. They should provide fee-free basic consumer banking services to the general public.
At this time, their operational model is "advertising platform" that happens to occasionally provide delivery services. Their reason for continued existence is bulk mailing. They aren't a government service. They are a de facto business. They fund themselves, and they produce a revenue stream for their sole shareholder, the US Government. If they were actually a government service, they would be publicly funded, and junk mail would be broadly prohibited.
The USPS is currently a garbage delivery service. Neither snow, nor rain, nor uBlock Origin stays these ad peddlers from littering "Or Current Resident" with their stamped trash. They should shift their focus to parcel delivery, and consumer banking.
I’d argue that is what it became, not what it started as or should be.
The whole 'run government like a business' idea usually entails running it into the ground. It's just a more diplomatic way to express wanting to remove social services from people.
It's the same with public transit. Some people think the government shouldn't invest in it because it won't be profitable, but... it's not supposed to be. It's a public service, just like libraries, firefighters, parks, public schools, road maintenance, etc. That's literally what taxes are supposed to be for.
It's crazy. I mean even if you are against taxes and everything it is a shared pool of resources. What are we supposed to with it if not pay for these things? Pay for the salaries of politicians that do not utilise these resources?
All the time you hear from these people what the government should not be spending tax payer money on but you rarely hear anything about what the money should be spent on.
You must not be listening cuz plenty of people talk about spending it on bombing more foreign children for the good of the military industrial complex.
It's because public transport isn't always profitable that it needs subsidy, because the indirect effects of a mobile population are extremely beneficial.
Public transport should not be profitable. It should be public . Paying for a public service with money from taxes is not subsidy, it's a provided public service.
My dad (a conservative) works in usps and thinks that there's no way they'll go after them.
He gets fed up saying how DMV workers are so slow and disrespectful and them glazes up his work in the usps saying that their agency is the one that gets overworked the most.
There's a potential future where we could get rid of the DMV. Like we could simply require insurance through AAA or whatever. If you can't get insured by any branch, then you shouldn't drive.
Cops should have to get malpractice insurance too. Insurance is a good solution to a lot of stuff.
AAA is a nonprofit, if they privatize the DMV it'll damn well be a corporation with a CEO that can make kickbacks to all the right people and keep the poors below him at bay.
You might wanna tell him they're on elons hit list (iirc)