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Re:US Postal Service to purchase 66,000 electric delivery ve... by exabrial on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:35PM (#34070169)
FFS, or you know we could stop delivering billions of tons of spam? There is zero reason the Post Office needs this. The environment impact of the mail is immense...

The impact of cutting down trees using diesel, processing the paper using fresh water, hauling the paper using diesel, printing, hauling the end product using diesel, throwing it away, then hauling the trash the landfill using diesel...

Re:US Postal Service to purchase 66,000 electric delivery ve... by tryptophan on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @02:21PM (#34070999)
Fun fact USPS has a mail category specifically for sending spam to people, and it is sold at prices far below cost of delivery.

Yay for government run businesses.

Re:US Postal Service to purchase 66,000 electric delivery ve... by skinnymuch on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:25PM (#34074352)
If USPS was a private company it would stop delivering where UPS and FedEx don’t deliver too. All three would obviously raise prices too. Yay for private capitalist businesses.
Re:US Postal Service to purchase 66,000 electric delivery ve... by autoexec on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:02PM (#34074766)
You aren't wrong, but the solution should be to just cover the expenses of the USPS upfront with tax money instead of allowing them to take in funding by contributing to the destruction of our planet and stuffing all our mailboxes with literal trash.

The USPS is an amazing service that absolutely deserves to be funded, but as long as we're paying for it, let's choose a method that would mean finally putting an end to all the crap in our mailboxes and eliminating all the waste in energy and resources spent carrying it all from the post office to the mailbox to the landfill.

Re:US Postal Service to purchase 66,000 electric delivery ve... by skinnymuch on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @11:32PM (#34169578)
Oh for sure. This is America though. Economically it's as right wing as things get.