Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se...
by andrewlgood on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @08:14PM
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? Are you suggesting the USPS is simply a job works program?
Re:The Billionaire Behind Efforts to Kill the U.S. Postal Se...
by justin66 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @08:29PM
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No, but the person I was responding to might have been implying that.
I think it's a "stable" job, although the retirement benefits and so on that a USPS letter carrier gets, for example, are not what they once were, and the post office also relies more on "non-career employees" than they used to.
Hundreds of millions of people use first class mail to pay their bills, rent, etc. and for all sorts of other things where those other delivery services would be needlessly expensive. The "basic problem" is that the post office is not permitted to set prices for first class mail or vary them where they lose money with every delivery, and yet they're expected by some to be run profitably "like a business."
> The USPS has to be reformed and it needs a new purpose in life, other then stable government job for people.
Because what the country really needs right now is a greater number of unstable jobs.