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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
I love how the USPS is under pressure to raise revenues and yet isn't allowed to raise rates or close underperforming post offices or anything without Congressional approval. They have all the pressure of private industry without any of the options.
Honestly, just bail them out. It's worth the tax money to me for us to continue to have the best postal system in the world (we do), and for there to be an employer that actively seeks to employ veterans- it's the largest civilian employer of them- almost 25 percent of the ranks are veterans.
If we can spend so much on gadgets for Defense, we can spend 50 billion to keep the mail going and veterans employed.
Or let the USPS raise rates to where they should be and close the rural post offices that don't pay their own way. And then listen to the screaming from the same right-wingers who complain about the USPS when they have to pay market rates for mail and when UPS and FedEx say, "Sorry; can't deliver to you; it's not profitable for us" (fun fact, UPS and FedEx both use USPS for the last leg of many deliveries because it's not worth it to them to deliver packages to rural areas. The USPS, of course, is required by law to deliver to everyone).
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i tire of bailing out dinosaurs. it's a good delivery system, but it's hemorraging badly. mail has changed, they have to change too. they're like detroit, population steadily dropping while the budget remains too high, and doesn't change with circumstances.