Another karmic unintended consequence that comes from voting for Trump...

[Baitball Blogger]

So they say he plans to hand the postal service to private companies? What happens when you do that and they apply stacked rates based on geographical addresses? Who gets hit the hardest?

Answer: Rural areas. Rural areas benefit the most from our present postal service because the rates are fixed, regardless of geography. But they will have to pay more to send letters and parcels if the postal system gets privatized. That's because customers are spread out and the cost to send drivers out will cost more.

[Bettie]

1. A lot of places will probably

have to pay for a post office box and go into the nearest large city in order to receive mail.

[DeepWinter]

2. I don't know

I live in very rural flyover country. My UPS, FedEx prices are very reasonable. I have a USPS post box in town but rarely use or check it. No need for snail mail anymore, mostly junk mail and advertising spam. For me the USPS has gone the way of the Telegraph.

[sop]

3. Unintended Consequences will be a common theme over the next few years.

[LaMouffette]

4. On the "Rick Smith Show" on Free Speech TV yesterday, Rick pointed out that privatizing the USPS is a massive land grab.

All of the US Postal Service properties will need to be sold to private companies (unless they are simply shut down), and I can just imagine the sweet bargain prices that Rump's buddies will pay for the properties. And what will be done with the money generated from the sale of the properties? Most likely, the money will go into funding Rump's billionaire tax cuts (along with money plundering through cuts to social security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA).