SHitler wants to privatize USPS

[CousinIT]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/14/trump-usps-privatize-plan/

They intend to 'privatize' the entire fed gov't. That means destroying what's there, emptying the fed treasury into their pockets + the social security trust fund, too, so they can monetize everything to benefit themselves, leaving us with/ no functioning gov't and destitute. THAT'S THE PLAN. Count on it.

[Henry203]

1. Right in line with healthcare

Healthcare will get worse as profits will be its only goal.

[ForgedCrank]

4. I don't

think the service part of USPS could be made any worse than it already is. It is horrendous, and notoriously unreliable and slow.
However, privatizing the thing is a sure fire way to make the cost of the services skyrocket. And I'll all but guarantee that detaching it from government funding will not lower our personal taxes in return. The USPS is very bloated in current form, and there are a LOT of worthless employees dragging the system down. It most certainly needs an overhaul, but I won't claim to know all of the answers.

[Henry203]

9. Most people on ebay

Use USPS and it very reliable and just as fast as fedex and UPS. It is also less expensive.

[ForgedCrank]

11. I purchase

tons of stuff online, and this is not my experience at all. USPS is slower than two old people screwing. Every single time that I buy something and get a USPS tracking number, I cringe because I know it'll take forever to get here, and that is almost always the case, exceptions are rare.
Ebay sellers use it because it's cheaper, nothing more.

[peggysue2]

14. I've been reading criticisms of USPS for years.

Yet my experience with the postal service has always been good. It may be worse in rural districts; I've never lived in the boondocks.

My complaints usually involve FedEX and UPS. Not only are they ridiculously expensive but they consistently screw-up package deliveries, and then offer lame excuses. My favorite was the delivery guy being afraid to come into my neighborhood, that I couldn't expect the driver to risk his life.

Really? That would certainly surprise my neighbors sitting in their comfortable, well-tended homes.

The dried food and supply packages I've sent my son on his through-hikes are normally sent through USPS. We've only lost one in approximately 200 mailings. And they've always been on time.

So, the idea of privatizing the world does not give me warm, fuzzy feelings.

[Henry203]

17. I agree with you

The USPS is very good.

[PortTack]

43. Same...I love the USPS

For those that are complaining…ask yourself, you ready to pay $5 to mail a letter vs 50 cents?

I can only imagine what package shipping will go to. It will kill a lot of small businesses.

[Sequoia]

55. Media mail, basically $5 to ship books from west coast to the east.

[Wuddles440]

52. I too love the USPS!!!

As in previous posts, any delivery problems my wife and I have encountered have almost anyways been with FedEx or UPS.

[TBF]

15. That's because they put a republican in charge of it to destroy it for this very purpose -

what did people think would happen?

So it will be privatized and the options will be private - usps, ups, fed ex, dhl and whatever -- and they will all be more expensive & they will all suck.

[Dan]

41. THINK ABOUT IT...

They want the pension fund of the USPS….

[JMCKUSICK]

42. And Social Security

[Irish_Dem]

2. Trump sees the US as a carcass to be divided up and sold to his billionaire pals.

[Captain Zero]

30. Explains his love for HANNIBAL LECTOR

He wants to consume the country.

[Irish_Dem]

34. Yes it is a good metaphor for Trump.

And also shows his sadism and cruelty.
Consuming the flesh of innocent victims.

[Turbineguy]

3. It's what these idiots voted for.

[TheBlackAdder]

48. Their plan: PREFUND their pensions at $5B per year over 15 years and then RAID IT.

The USPS was pretty much breaking even each and every year until they were forced to come up with $5 Billion of pension pre-funding. Then, lo and behold, the USPS is running at a loss of $5 Billion a year and then claim it's losing money.

It's all a scheme to not only seize real-estate and property assets, but also their pension funds.

Whatever company gets it will borrow against that money and then go bankrupt, thereby sticking taxpayers with replenishing the pension system.

[sakabatou]

5. Repukes have been wanting to do that for decades

[Yavin4]

6. Hey rural voters, say goodbye to your mail service or be prepared to pay a steep price for it.

Privatization means making a profit on heretofore public services. And the only way to make a profit is to deny service or charge a price that not only includes service delivery but a profit as well.

So, if you live in a hard to reach area of the country, mail delivery service to your home is incredibly expensive but the cost is spread out because it's a public service. Privatization means that individual consumers bear the entire cost of the service as well as a profit.

[allegorical oracle]

10. The mail is already a hybrid -- a once-public service that now is required to make a profit that

pays for its employees' retirement and that requires billions of dollars set aside for the future. Public services shouldn't expect to make a profit. They could cease with the USPS TV commercials. Those cost plenty and who isn't aware that you can mail stuff at the post office?

Hated that Biden's Chairperson of the Post Office's Board of Directors never chucked Louis DeJoy.

[jeffreyi]

16. Saw a clip DeJoy at congressional hearing the other day...

He was on the receiving end of an a$$ chewing. He was in what amounts to a shouting match with the committee member, and then finally covered his ears! The guy is very wierd.

[allegorical oracle]

20. He's ordered a ton of new equipment and demanded workers to stop using the old

mail-sorting machinery before the new ones arrived. Mail stacked up in some offices for six weeks because DeJoy also ordered workers not to hand sort mail. It costs a fortune to send packages, now, and one 1st Class Parcel took 18 days to go 70 miles from my post office. Could've delivered it myself in an hour.

[Autumn]

7. He can sell it to president Eloony at a bargain price and model it after Amazon.

[Lovie777]

8. Well the biggest union will die..

Mail in ballots will be in trouble and thrown in the trash, and SS and other checks will get lost, plus the fear is that we might pay a fee just to receive mail and services.

[CousinIT]

21. That union is what they want to destroy. And mail-in ballot delivery.

They also want to destroy teacher's unions.

[Initech]

12. He destroys everything he touches.

[Mike 03]

13. Some really intelligent replies on this thread

Kicking

I live in a semi-rural community with many older folks, quite a few with health issues, very red, suffered a disproportionately high number of COVID cases because of refusal to mask up or get vaccinated, and unwilling to raise their taxes by one cent to help the schools and teachers out. They will complain like hell if anything happens to the USPS up here--and we have extremely good mail service here.

[jeffreyi]

18. I also live in rural magastan.

Closing the post office will be very unpopular, but things sure looks headed that way. The post office jobs are good jobs in these parts. Won't be long before our national forests and other public lands are on the chopping block and being gobbled up. Everybody knows about national parks, they are popular and probably safe for now; less glamorous but much vaster public lands not so much. Hurts my heart.

[woodsprite]

19. I thought that was why he picked DeJoy. nt

[Skittles]

46. CORRECT

he's just the start, kind of like how Medicare "Advantage" is the prelude to complete privatization of Medicare

[orangecrush]

22. Just like Russia.

And they will formally outlaw democracy, as they oligarchs outlawed communism in Russia to make sure you never get it back.

[Bumbles]

23. We've had mostly good experiences with our post office and mail carriers.

Anytime I've filed a complaint, usually in person in our small local post office, I've gotten a satisfactory response. Our mail carriers have become friends. I look forward to talking with them whenever possible. Making and personalizing connections is so important, especially in this difficult time.

The Freepost, Maine, post office has a tradition started by a customer years ago in which customers bring in goodies to share with the community. It was lovely to walk into the outer office recently to see the varied array of Christmas cookies. Cooperative and nurturing small town America can still be found. I'm thankful I live in the blue part of Maine where it's much easier to co-exist.

[JHB]

24. It's not just Trump. This has been a Conservative/Libertarian wet dream for decades

It's why they supported him. He's their big chance to grab all the marbles.

[drmeow]

25. Republicans

have wanted to privatize USPS for decades. Every stupid law passed about the USPS has been with the goal of claiming it is a problem and needs to be privatized.

They despise the USPS for two primary reasons: 1) It is the single most democratic institute in the country. No matter who you are, where you live, what color your skin, what religion you belong to, etc, you can mail a letter for the same price as everyone else and (it used to be - now rural locations not so much) every single person got their mail delivered to their door the same as everyone else. 2) Post office jobs are among the civil servant jobs that reliably elevated people doing that sort of labor into the middle class.

The British aristocracy had franking privileges (which Congress has) which allowed them to send mail for free. I'm sure the Musks of this world also want that.

They also want to revenue of the post office to line their pockets.

There are no depths to the hatred I have for the billionaire class!

[CrispyQ]

26. Isn't USPS the one with the fully funded retirement plan?

Why yes. Yes it is. According to google AI overview:

The U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) retirement programs, including the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS), the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), and the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund (PSRHBF), had an estimated value of $298 billion at the end of fiscal year 2022. However, the USPS's retirement costs are significant, totaling $10 billion in 2023 alone.

[Captain Zero]

32. They want to filch the retirement funds.

Plain and simple.

[AllaN01Bear]

27. started w ronald raygun and ,, wants to complete it.

so if he strips the gvt, he aint got no job??

[Quanto Magnus]

28. Well he's had his guy DeJoy

wrecking it for the last 8 years....

objective achieved

[aggiesal]

29. I believe the USPS is in the Constitution ...

Not that Pendejo45's Oath to the Constitution means anything.

[Captain Zero]

31. Wouldn't the Constitution have to be changed?

The Post Office was mandated as a government service by the founding fathers, and it's in the constitution.

[TNNurse]

35. My exact point.

Guess they are planning to ignore any part of the Constitution they don't like.

[magicarpet]

54. Hell,... the Christo-Fascists ignore the parts of the buy-bull they dislike,...

..... why shouldn't the Fascist capitalists do the same with the US Constitution ?

[OMGWTF]

33. Oligarchs and Rethuglicans want us poor, sick, stupid, and dead if you are considered a parasite.

At the end of the day, this rabid greed is nothing more than a dick-measuring contest to see who can be the world's first trillionaire.

[AverageOldGuy]

36. The Post Office is established by the Constitution

Abolishing the PO will require a constitutional amendment -- OR -- simply have Congress not appropriate any money for the USPS.

See how easy dictators take over? Especially when over half the electorate is comprised of dumbass muthahfukahs.

Am I bitter? Damn right.

[Mountainguy]

37. USPS isnt going anywhere

[Kingofalldems]

38. Also high percentage of minority employees.

51.5% minorities along with 46% women employed there.

And Trump hates minorities, especially black people.

[valleyrogue]

39. They are full of shit. Not going to happen.

USPS is quasi-private anyway and has been since Nixon.

[spike jones]

40. The republicans plan to sell all public lands, national forest and BLM. That has been in their platform for years.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-party-platform-public-lands_n_6690023fe4b0fb744167465b?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

[bif]

44. Our USPS service is horrendous.

It used to take me over a week to get a paycheck that went a total of three blocks! I now just walk over to the office and pick it up. The newspaper I work for sends out free copies to the entire city a couple times a year. Our block never gets them. It's a total mystery what happens to the papers.

[Noel Kums]

49. Ours is great, but it always has been.

I think we're just fortunate to have a great local office with a lot of old-timers who are lifers and enjoy what they do.

[Ruby the Liberal]

45. Good thing DeJoy is still there.

[4th gen blue]

47. I hate that USPS has gotten so bad

That people have given up on it.

[Mossfern]

50. But wait!

There's a drone!

BTW, I have had only good experiences with the USPS.

[Oneear]

51. Just take a Google Search of stamps.com

You will see discounted stamp prices. How is that? Louis DeJoy. I would love to be the fly on the wall and explain this to the Board of Governors, Congress, and USPS.

[Jilly_in_VA]

53. He can't do that

or at least he'll have a hella hard time, because that's one department enshrined in the Constitution. But he can fuck it up, and he's already done that with his buddy DeJoyless, who we can't seem to get rid of.