What If Jeff Bezos Tries to Acquire the Struggling U.S. Postal Service?

Re:What If Jeff Bezos Tries to Acquire the Struggling U.S. P... by Meandering on Monday April 13, 2020 @12:17PM (#22857124)

I am normally for privatization. There are so many ways USPS could bolster their infrastructure to grow. Reduce the bureaucracy and improve efficiency.

Being said. USPS offers a secure and power agnostic means of communication. I don't trust large corporations to respect privacy or provide the caliber of federal security USPS offers it's clientele.

Although, when legislation becomes a component of business operations... failure becomes imminent.

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Re:What If Jeff Bezos Tries to Acquire the Struggling U.S. P... by t0mas88 on Monday April 13, 2020 @12:37PM (#22857335)

In my part of Europe the postal service was privatized a long time ago. It works fine, the guarantees on service and rights to privacy etc were put into law and apply to other shipping/postal companies as well. It's a net win for consumers because rates dropped, "order before 16:00 for next day delivery" has become 23:59 and the privacy guarantees now apply also to FedEx/UPS/DHL/other carriers.

The group that has all the downsides of this are the postal workers. What used to be a government job with almost no way to get fired and amazing benefits is now a commercial job with higher performance requirements and less benefits.

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Re:What If Jeff Bezos Tries to Acquire the Struggling U.S. P... by surfpel on Monday April 13, 2020 @02:02PM (#22858227)

Is this a highly industrialized, population dense part of Europe? The United States is huge and for the most part has low population density making anything related to movement inherently difficult and expensive.

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Re:What If Jeff Bezos Tries to Acquire the Struggling U.S. P... by t0mas88 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @10:26AM (#22878062)

Indeed quite densely populated, but I don't think it matters much for the privatization concept? UPS / DHL / FedEx still also cover all of the US, just at a higher price per parcel than over here?

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