@@andrewbennu "magically only the repulican votes survived the fire... oh well! We can't possibly inform all these people and let them resend their votes, that's too expensive. Maybe next time!"
Louis DeJoy is a trump loyalist! He tried his best in 2020 to screw up the post office. He had million dollar sorting machines dismantled, had bags of mail just sitting around with ballots in them. He's got huge conflicts of interest too. Just Google the guy.. He's a real piece of shit!
For anyone who thinks it wasn't a mistake just needs to have a look at what's happening up here in Canada now for proof they're wrong. Canada Post is broke and the workers are striking and there's no end to it in sight. It's a corporation that's about to collapse.
@@Myriadys They're a food corp so it makes sense they would attempt to do this. They are also lobbying for Trump's cabinet appointments to make sure this happens.
Post office in my town is never open. Go there to deliver packages and 90 percent off the time theres a sign that says "closed due to staff shortages" at 11 am. Real well run business. Needs to be privatized.
@@Mike-qz4by You have a misconception. Staff shortages are a direct result of privatization. When everything is profit-motivated, you have a responsibility to cut costs as much as you think you can get away with. This leads to understaffing and reducing staff pay and benefits (which causes fewer people to want to work there). Privatization is the problem, not the solution. You want your post office open when it should be? The mandate that it needs to be self-funding needs to be rolled back.
@@Mike-qz4by It's employees are being purposefully run into the ground so they are leaving the job, the post master general's plan was always to hamstring the post office and give parts of it to his own private business XPO.
@@bluegreenglue6565 Royal Mail is owned by a publicly traded holding company called International Distribution Services plc. IDS is being sold to to Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský through his EP Group for £3.6bn, although there are some strings attached. The UK government has signed-off on the deal, as have the Communication Workers Union and the Unite union.
@@bluegreenglue6565 Royal Mail is owned by a publicly traded holding company called International Distribution Services plc. IDS is being sold to to Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský for £3.6bn, although there are some strings attached. Both the UK government and the Communication Workers and Unite unions have agreed to the deal.
I agree. In spite of the extent to which DeJoy has tried to destroy the USPS, it remains reliable, albeit slower. Personally, I'd be ok with paying a little more in taxes to have the federal government fully fund it.
I say get rid of the USPS. Bring back the USPOD. Overturn the Postal Reorganization Act and make it a cabinet position again. Like it was for nearly 200 years.@@Sarahizahhsum
They have long wanted to privatize the USPS, along with that closing remote post offices as "unprofitable". That would abandon rural and outlying communities. Certified mail is a fundamental requirement for many kinds of legal notifications. ("Registered mail" is a different thing, but most folks refer to "registered mail" when they mean "certified mail".) Dropping such a service would have an enormous impact on thousands of jurisdictions that legally rely on the US Postal Service for delivering bills, notifications, and legal notices (by certified mail). The financial "instability" of the USPS is an artificial creation of a Congress that wants to run the USPS into the ground so they can then point at it as an example of how "government can't help but mess it up" so they could get an amendment to remove the mandate. It has been working in the defunding of the public school system, so folks feel like they MUST turn to private (for profit) or chartered schools with public money. The USPS used to offer small-scale banking services, which included depository accounts. These were amazingly useful for the otherwise unbanked. Guess who paid (lobbied) to get that dropped...and why.
"...closing remote post offices as "unprofitable". That would abandon rural and outlying communities. " That would basically force the people living there to move to the cities. Because how else would they get their notices on stuff like bills or legal matters? Not everything comes through email. It seems like it does, but not everything does.
BUT... someone could make more money. Now really, what's more important? (I swear to Athena, if I you had to read this to realize that's SARCASM, that's pretty sad.)
@@TheDanielCityHeroes Closing the local offices doesn't stop you from getting mail. It makes it slower and less convenient to send and receive it as someone from a town big enough to have a post office to come deliver the mail then collect the out going mail and take it back to the post office to be processed. Now if it was fully privatized your small town out in the middle of nowhere wouldn't be worth going to as there is no profit in sending 1 or 2 rural carriers out there to deliver.
This is a good example of how Republican rhetoric - perhaps disingenuously - doesn't match its policies. Republicans say they want to uphold the Constitution as it was originally written, but their priorities change when they have to try to find a loophole around it. They say they are in favor of "traditional values," but now they want to seriously overhaul one of our country's oldest traditions. They claim they want to protect Christianity, and yet they promote the worst excesses of capitalism so that literally everything becomes a zero-sum game, practically rewriting Jesus' Sermon on the Mount so that he now says, "Blessed are the NOT meek, for the laws of economics will always crown them the winners." And, as you mentioned, even though Republicans profess to be the champions of rural people, their schemes to decentralize government harm those people at least as much as they help them. I'm reminded of a similar situation more than a decade ago, when Tea Party Republicans were claiming that the Public Broadcasting System was overfunded. Critics pointed out that PBS was already a decentralized system, meaning that cutting funding for its programs would be discriminatory against its smaller outlets. This means that children in New York City, Los Angeles, and similar places would get to watch "Sesame Street," but kids in places like Kansas or Nebraska would not be so lucky. My theory is that the majority of lower-middle-income voters chose Trump-Vance over Harris-Walz for no other reason because the Democratic party is hardly any better, and at least the Republicans have no shame about hitting the money shot with their "patriot porn./"
@@TheDanielCityHeroes And guess what happens to people when they move to the cities? That's right. Urban areas are ideologically vampiric, and immigrants to those places tend to get "vampirized" within a generation or two. That's how American Jews went from being socially conservative Russian farmers to "woke" agitators marching through New York's streets - and almost overnight, too.
Yes please. I'm very tired of ISPs deciding to throttle my internet speed because I'm streaming or whatever and charging me arbitrary fees just because they can. Nationalized internet should be a requirement to be considered a developed nation in the 21st century.
The United States Postal Service, even in its present state, is a phenomenal service. In addition to last-mile service, which makes rural life so much easier, having mobile people in your neighborhood provides a community service. I know of two specific instances of people who had fallen or suffered a seizure in their home and were helped because the mail carrier noticed a break in their routines. They were used to seeing these people out and about. Public services provide connection that businesses simply cannot.
@@ileneragland369 No they privatised the mail service, The Royal Mail, in 2013. Royal Mail and The Post Office were once part of the same government entity.
@itsrickyschannel. Royal mail to us would be like overnight! LOL if Trump mess3s with our mail it will be to suppress votes! I actually feel that might what happened this time. I hate that guy with an unholy passion. I don't think the anti-christ could be as bad!
@@destronger5313 literally so absurd! It is incredible they actually function as well as they do despite how much Congress has tried and tried to ruin it so that they can privatize it
Have a plan that will be terrible for their voters, convince their idiot voters to love the terrible plan, enact plan, blame Democrats for the inevitable disaster.
My friend ,hasn't it ever crossed your mind that he doesn't care if he's allowed to or not? That is what makes them dictators. Not too many people seem to be willing to stand up to him and there are a lot of people getting in line for him. Just the fact that he's not sitting in a cell right now tells you that. I am more worried right now than I've ever been in my life about the future of America
The people that need to hear you and the others with the truth will never hear you. They don't watch you channels. They don't want to think for themselves, too much effort. They love playing victim. They just digest and believe their orange god. Need to find another way to reach their brains.
Wake up tootsie. He's been in office before and he NEVER tried to control us like the current individuals. Stop following what the media told you to think and think for yourself.
My great uncle Ron... A wounded veteran on the VA, then after a failed business as a TV sales and repair store owner, became a 40 year postal postal worker collecting government pension... Ron votes republican every time. The R party is trying to destroy the benefits that brought him a comfortable retirement despite his entrepreneurial best efforts. He is very a low informed Reagonite and stubborn... and I pity him and the rest of his fellow Iowans that will be hit hardest by repub policy.
the Republican party is absolutely the party of "fuck you, got mine" nowadays, and this is a pretty clear (albeit anecdotal and individual) example of that.
Canada's postal service is currently on strike and needs our support. Many postal workers were laid off, increasing the workload of the remaining workers without an increase in pay and their pensions are being threatened. Many people are ignoring the need to support them because their services are needed but that doesn't nullify the need to treat the workers as people. Class solidarity, it's important.
That's one of our problems in America. Ppl don't get "strength in numbers." Having a workforce where unions are common, teaches ppl that we must stay together and fight. Raygun in the 80s, created the myth that still exists in CONservative brains: "rugged individualism," of never trusting your own govt, of the 17th century fairytale of "picking yourself up by your own bootstraps." We are a nation basically now of "every man/woman for themself." Poisonous myths that only disintegrate society.
@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305baby we gotta worry about the massive stinky pile of dog shite that is coming to strip us of our hard earned rights, Canada can handle their own I hope
I agree. When did we in America stop our solidarity with our fellow workers? I'm old enough to remember what solidarity looked like. It seems to me that Poland had an entire political movement around solidarity. Does anyone else remember Lech Walęsa?
Trump immediately harming those Republicans who live in the middle of nowhere and voted for him- and they don't even understand it ALSO- using the term "efficient" is extremely contradictory. I would assume based on volume that the USPS is already by far the MOST efficient mail carrier
Before DeJoy starting "cutting costs" before the 2020 election you could reliably ship live animals through the USPS when no other service will. The USPS was able to pull that off for decades.
They are very very efficient. Never lost one package. UPS has yet to deliver my packages to my current address. They lost every one of them. 10 total. Talk about inefficient, the private sector always wins the inefficiency award. As for UPS, they win the Least Likely to Graduate High School award. Dumb arses.
@@giladpellaeon1691 Hell the postal service used to deliver children. No I an not talking about a woman going into labor. People used to send their kids to visit relative by packing a lunch, pinning postage to them, and handing the kids over to the mail carriers.
@@andreah6379 Re: shoddy UPS service - in the past year, UPS has failed to deliver packages directly to me... in a major city, while I was at home (so no realistic excuse for the failure). Instead they dropped it off at a local business being used as a UPS Access Point and just stuck a note on my door.
There was an episode of American Dad where Steve entered a model rocket contest. He tried to ask Stan for help and Stand then asked him If that model rocket made him any money. When Steve said no Stan just said" Then it has no value. That was supposed to be a parody of Republicans, reality is so much worse.
I don't know where I got the idea, but I always thought the government exists in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, whatever it costs in terms of money, status, or lives.
Steve, you hit the proverbial nail on the head! That is the existential difference between Democrats and Republicans. Not only are they motivated to make as much money as they possibly can, but also to do it at any cost, including, taking it from the less fortunate.
It's weird how so many Americans can support the idea of getting rid of tens of thousands of good paying American jobs with actual benefits, and in exchange get more Amazon-type jobs, higher costs, and then send all of the "savings" from doing so into the pockets of the same few rich people who have most of the money already.
And that’s why they are famously anti-military, anti-roads, anti-free-parking, anti-suburbs, and pro-property-taxes. Oh, wait, their ideological consistency doesn’t extend to government services they like or to privatization that might cost them directly.
Worse - they want a situation where the government hands them lots of money to generate profits. Example -Chicago sold off parking meter rights to a corporation (one time lump sum that hand over the rights for 75 years, I think?)... and now the city contractually owes money to that business whenever there is a road closure that prevents parking on a street (e.g., closing for road or utility work, or blocking off for a festival)
I don't think people realize how much more expensive UPS would be, if they could get away with charging whatever rather than giving shippers the option to pass it onto the post office for delivery, if you get a UPS parcel from your postman, its because the people who shipped it went for a discounted rate, and I doubt they are passing that savings to you. As more and more people are finding out (because a good chunk of this country seems to have been asleep at the wheel), companies are more than happy to pass extra cost caused by stupid politicians on to us
The terrible ideas that rank above it includes such things as: Private healthcare For profit prisons Killing everyone so one guy can be richer (in too many ways) & So much more!
The US Postal Service is, after Congress, literally the oldest extant organ of the US government, and for good reason, since the founders knew how critical it was for the effective functioning of society, and until recently its efficiency and dependability has stood as a testement to the effectiveness of having a necessary public good guaranteed by and for society as a whole, to the effect that it has served as a model for postal services around the world, and this has always been a glaring threat to the profit driven sectors of our economy.
I say get rid of the USPS. Bring back the USPOD. Overturn the Postal Reorganization Act and make it a cabinet position again. Like it was for nearly 200 years.
We privatized our healthcare and the general satisfaction with that is famously high right now, lets do the same with our postal service! I'm sure my mail won't be delayed, denied, or deposed. /s
@@brynpookc1127i cant imagine the person who can be on a politics channel and not recognize "delayed, denied, or deposed" which is the obvious sarcasm marker, sorry.
@@BeefyBacardi oh i think i was sounding like i was against it. im just being dumb and in an argumentative mood over something i dont really care about either way. my bad.
You've highlighted it so well, these rights were always taken for granted, are things that Trump and his follows do not understand or think about, but will be sorely missed.
Up until 2006 the USPS was the only government agency that generated revenue. That was until the Republican house mandated the Postal Service to prefund retiree benefits decades in advance. That’s exactly why it’s the fkn mess it is today.
I remember years ago, while working in a public school, administrators came along that spoke of treating schools like a business! Poor little children and parents.
These people look a business able to sustain itself, and think "you should charge more. I'd like to pay more money for the same quality of service, so that your boss's boss can enjoy a big fat paycheck"
This is fundamentally the real difference: not small government vs. big government but government to protect the societal well-being vs. government to protect the social order.
The guy just elected into office doesn't really concern himself too much what the Constitution says about anything. If the Constitution still had any meaning in this country, he wouldn't even have been permitted to run for the office.
OK. Then my local govt needs to refund me back my property taxes I've been paying all these years. No. We all need to fight privatizing everything in this country. Greedy RW billionaire, Charles Koch, has had a wet dream of US privatizing all govt--handing everything off to greedy CEOs. If you aren't getting what you need like your Soc Sec, then he says go beg in church or on the streets. These RW billionaires are all sociopaths.
@@Fenriswaffle I can't say for sure, but I'd bet that the unmarked black shirts who terrorized and abducted citizens during the 2020 police brutality demonstrations were a for-profit outfit hired by Trump's administration.
They used to have private fire and police departments . They were a protection racket, run by "Insurance Companies". My neighbor acquired some antique house badges from one of the companies and has them attached to his 130 year old house.
Great timing. I have a friend who has worked as a mail carrier for years, and I have a vague idea about his job. I’m writing tribute for the USPS for Christmas Day, after having thanked my friend like he was a veteran this morning.
There are people in this country who rely on the USPS for communication. They do not have computers or smart phones. The USPS is vital to their existence, not everyone is a part of the wired in generation!
It always amuses me when people say business is more efficient than government. It can be true, especially if the governments is run poorly, but a lot of big business is run poorly too and the company I work for has probably wasted more money in my specific location than I'll have made in my entire life combined.
Australia semi-privatised (made self-funding, incentivising price increase and service decrease) and we instantly got a doubling of the time it took to receive mail. Right around the same time, the CEO was handing out $20k watches as ‘rewards’ for other executives negotiating postal deals with some of the biggest banks. In fairness to the CEO, this wasn’t unusual conduct for CEOs whose business runs on the profit motive. But as a ‘public service’ mid-pandemic that had just increased prices and decreased service, it was repulsive.
The one time I had a problem getting a package a friend sent me was with Fedex. I have NEVER had an issue with the USPS. Whoever was delivering my package from Fedex kept leaving before anyone could get to the door. I've heard the knock and by the time I got to the door they were gone. Eventually they left a final ticket and I had to get a lift from my brother to get out to a Fedex facility to get it.
And UPS use to be reliable, but always more expensive. Now it's both expensive AND unreliable. Last time I monitored delivery by UPS and they couldn't even confirm the package was ever delivered. What am I paying through the nose for with UPS, anyway??
@@andreah6379 Oh I've heard stories. Namely when this collection for the Fallout games came out. It was Fallout 1 to New Vegas that came win a container shaped like a mini nuke from the latter two games, even has a button that makes it make noise. Anyway, was looking up people's experiences and one person said theirs came from UPS and looked like it was dropped in a lake. Luckily they were able to fix the electronic parts. This made me a bit paranoid especially when I saw mine was coming via UPS. Luckily I got it without incident, though I am a bit concerned now since another pretty important collectible is coming to me via Fedex.
I'm shocked you even had someone knock on your door. I've had FedEX just claim that the address is wrong on the package so they don't even have to stop at my house. I call and confirm the address is correct, they can't attempt redelivery but I can come pick it up. So I drive almost an hour away to pick it up and they tell me nobody held the package despite the conclusion of the phone call being that I was coming to get it so hold it. Thankfully it was still there but the whole ordeal was just a series of incomptenent and/or lazy people. I hate FedEX and do not want USPS to become another FedEX.
The USPS is the only part of the federal government that is required to be self-funding and provide for their employees' benefits and pensions. All done so when there are funding problems, greedy Republicans would have an excuse to call for privatization.
🖖🏽 A terrible idea! They actually need to bring back post office BANKING (which got shut down bc lobbyists for the big banks GOT it shut down bc they couldn't compete with how GOOD postal banking was!) Reagan's zombie lie that government can never be as efficient or as good as for-profit organizations lives on! 🖖🏽
E specially when the choice becomes between government services or no service, and for a lot of people there will just be no service if all mail services are privatized.
I say get rid of the USPS. Bring back the USPOD. Overturn the Postal Reorganization Act and make it a cabinet position again. Like it was for nearly 200 years.
Here in Canada there are those advocating privatization of our postal system as well, particularly after a month-long lockout of postal workers by management. Scary.
I know a Trumpist who goes on about privatizing education. I asked him what would happen if you lived in an area with ONE high school. If you privatize that school, and the company running it decides that it's unprofitable and shutter its doors, what happens to the kids in that area? Do they just not get an education. His response? That would never happen.
My local post office held a package that had an address mistake. Drove in, showed Photo ID to confirm address, and poof, had it. A corporation drone could easily say sorry, too late. A mandated service that runs correctly always provides better service.
The point of a business is to give you as little as possible while receiving from you as much as possible in order to maximize profits. This idea makes us customers. Can’t wait to be a customer of the fire department waiting for my credit card payment to clear before they extinguish my house fire.
A line I have heard a few time from urbanist communities when talking about public transit seems appropriate here; Public services don't exist to make money, they exist to serve the public.
I work in a small town as the only postman, 6 days a week, and I can't tell you how many people appreciate and even need the postal office. I work with people all the time, every day and honestly I sometimes feel like I'm helping the community with what I do, it feels good to do this job, to me.
How do some of the same people who insist that the constitution is 'sacred', at least when it comes to the 2nd amendment, casually dismiss the constitutional basis for the Postal Service?
There have been seven postage hikes since DeJoy took office in Jun 2020 and the way he's got the mail being routed and sorted makes NO SENSE. It's actually causing delays.
I just looked it up. In the US, stamps are 73c delivery 1-5 days (well it's a biiiiig country) In the UK, a first class stamp guaranteeing next day delivery (tiny country compared to the US) is £1.65! Second class (guaranteeing delivery in 2 days) is 65p and that's what almost everyone gets where it is not urgent. Plus our stamps (UK) have bar codes and nowadays, when the price goes up, you get a certain amount of time to use them and then they are no good. US stamps and UK 2nd class stamps seem reasonable to me.
What a day for you to post this! Here in the UK the government has just approved the sale of the Royal Mail to a foreign (Czech) billionaire. I’ve often said against the privatisation of the RM which happened nearly 12 years ago now “even the USA has a publicly owned postal service”. Usually we follow you into the neoliberal abyss.
This argument is wasted starting with the middle class. They do not want public housing in their neighbourhood. "I pay higher taxes and therefore my local school should be better funded"... My sister said that. She is absolutely against public housing in her district because poor people would benefit from her taxes, middle class. She does not want poor people to gain the benefit of equally distributed taxation. WTF do you think that plays out like in the head of a billionaire? I am not even American. People are self serving arseholes.
As a rich ***, Trump would never be negatively effected by privatizing the post office. So it’s no wonder that he would think doing something like this might be a good idea. The thing that baffles me is that many of his supporters are people that would be negatively effected by this kind of thing and yet they somehow always give him a pass.
Ex-Royal Mail worker.I hope your union are stronger than our CWU!Sold workers down the river and just been sold to a Czech Billionaire.Predict price hikes for an inferior service.✌️
I believe postal service needs to be maintained within the constitution. I also believe that the post office should have it's budget dramatically increased and that it's use up to a certain weight should be 100% free within the U.S.A. (Including non-contiguous states and territories).
What UPS, Amazon, FedEx, DHL, and others do is the manage the first and last miles, relying on the USPS to handle all the middle miles. If USPS were a private service, that $10 2 day delivery you pay UPS and others would shoot up to at least $30 if those same companies had to handle all of it by themselves.
The post office should be treated as a public utility. Which is exactly what it is. It's an essential service.
That's just it, they hate public utilities / services.
It's supposed to be a public utility. It's so vital to the country that it's written into the Constitution itself
Actually required by the Constitution.
DO NOT TAKE MY USPS FROM ME
Republicans just want to control it, and kill voting by mail...SIMPLE AS THAT. They want to control social media, and control US ALL
Imagine if a Trump loyalist was given the responsibility to deliver mail in voting ballets from a Democratic district?
Oops he slipped and his ballots fell in a fire pit
"Ooops - my self-driving Tesla ran off the road and caught fire! Fortunately I got out a block away to kick homeless people that I don't think exist."
@@andrewbennu "magically only the repulican votes survived the fire... oh well! We can't possibly inform all these people and let them resend their votes, that's too expensive. Maybe next time!"
Louis DeJoy is a trump loyalist! He tried his best in 2020 to screw up the post office. He had million dollar sorting machines dismantled, had bags of mail just sitting around with ballots in them. He's got huge conflicts of interest too. Just Google the guy.. He's a real piece of shit!
In texass they do.
Not to mention PBS. I get so angry when they talk about not funding PBS.
Fred Rogers saved it once. I wish he were still here.
We need Fred Rogers now, more than ever.
I say that we don't necessarily need Mr. Rogers back, we need to remember the lessons he taught us.
@@kurisu7885 Me too, 💙!
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They'll privatize it and then give it massive government subsides so that an already obscenely rich person can become even richer.
Probably Elon.
@michaelnaukam7692 how is it wrong? Giving tons of money to rich people while screwing everyone else is the entire conservative platform.
Louis DeJoy is going to become even more filthy rich.
The appointment of dejoy in an effort to make it fail (ACA, same idea) instead of making a service to be proud of.
That's the whole idea behind privatizing Social Security - make the obscenely wealthy even richer.
It was a mistake when it was made semi-private corporation in '71.
For anyone who thinks it wasn't a mistake just needs to have a look at what's happening up here in Canada now for proof they're wrong. Canada Post is broke and the workers are striking and there's no end to it in sight. It's a corporation that's about to collapse.
Ugh. Wait until they try to privatize water.
@Here4TheHeckOfIt we about to get a “dr breen’s private reserve” equivalent
@Here4TheHeckOfIt nestle beat you to it
@@Myriadys They're a food corp so it makes sense they would attempt to do this. They are also lobbying for Trump's cabinet appointments to make sure this happens.
First they came for the postal workers, i didn't speak up, as I wasn't a postal worker....
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Post office in my town is never open. Go there to deliver packages and 90 percent off the time theres a sign that says "closed due to staff shortages" at 11 am. Real well run business. Needs to be privatized.
@@Mike-qz4bywrong.
@@Mike-qz4by You have a misconception. Staff shortages are a direct result of privatization. When everything is profit-motivated, you have a responsibility to cut costs as much as you think you can get away with. This leads to understaffing and reducing staff pay and benefits (which causes fewer people to want to work there).
Privatization is the problem, not the solution. You want your post office open when it should be? The mandate that it needs to be self-funding needs to be rolled back.
@@Mike-qz4by It's employees are being purposefully run into the ground so they are leaving the job, the post master general's plan was always to hamstring the post office and give parts of it to his own private business XPO.
We privatised the Royal Mail and it didn't do us any harm!. Oh wait...
Even worse, Royal Mail is going to be owned by a foreign billionaire!
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@@OptimusWombat What? [got to look into that...]
@@bluegreenglue6565 Royal Mail is owned by a publicly traded holding company called International Distribution Services plc. IDS is being sold to to Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský through his EP Group for £3.6bn, although there are some strings attached. The UK government has signed-off on the deal, as have the Communication Workers Union and the Unite union.
@@bluegreenglue6565 Royal Mail is owned by a publicly traded holding company called International Distribution Services plc. IDS is being sold to to Czech billionaire Daniel Křetínský for £3.6bn, although there are some strings attached. Both the UK government and the Communication Workers and Unite unions have agreed to the deal.
USPS is my main hot button - no other service serves virtually every person in the US - thanks for posting Steve
Love usps, let's work to improve it and make it better for everyone involved instead of go after it. Usps is very reliable.
I agree. In spite of the extent to which DeJoy has tried to destroy the USPS, it remains reliable, albeit slower. Personally, I'd be ok with paying a little more in taxes to have the federal government fully fund it.
I say get rid of the USPS. Bring back the USPOD. Overturn the Postal Reorganization Act and make it a cabinet position again. Like it was for nearly 200 years.@@Sarahizahhsum
They have long wanted to privatize the USPS, along with that closing remote post offices as "unprofitable". That would abandon rural and outlying communities.
Certified mail is a fundamental requirement for many kinds of legal notifications. ("Registered mail" is a different thing, but most folks refer to "registered mail" when they mean "certified mail".) Dropping such a service would have an enormous impact on thousands of jurisdictions that legally rely on the US Postal Service for delivering bills, notifications, and legal notices (by certified mail).
The financial "instability" of the USPS is an artificial creation of a Congress that wants to run the USPS into the ground so they can then point at it as an example of how "government can't help but mess it up" so they could get an amendment to remove the mandate. It has been working in the defunding of the public school system, so folks feel like they MUST turn to private (for profit) or chartered schools with public money.
The USPS used to offer small-scale banking services, which included depository accounts. These were amazingly useful for the otherwise unbanked. Guess who paid (lobbied) to get that dropped...and why.
"...closing remote post offices as "unprofitable". That would abandon rural and outlying communities. "
That would basically force the people living there to move to the cities. Because how else would they get their notices on stuff like bills or legal matters? Not everything comes through email. It seems like it does, but not everything does.
BUT... someone could make more money.
Now really, what's more important?
(I swear to Athena, if I you had to read this to realize that's SARCASM, that's pretty sad.)
@@TheDanielCityHeroes Closing the local offices doesn't stop you from getting mail. It makes it slower and less convenient to send and receive it as someone from a town big enough to have a post office to come deliver the mail then collect the out going mail and take it back to the post office to be processed.
Now if it was fully privatized your small town out in the middle of nowhere wouldn't be worth going to as there is no profit in sending 1 or 2 rural carriers out there to deliver.
This is a good example of how Republican rhetoric - perhaps disingenuously - doesn't match its policies. Republicans say they want to uphold the Constitution as it was originally written, but their priorities change when they have to try to find a loophole around it. They say they are in favor of "traditional values," but now they want to seriously overhaul one of our country's oldest traditions. They claim they want to protect Christianity, and yet they promote the worst excesses of capitalism so that literally everything becomes a zero-sum game, practically rewriting Jesus' Sermon on the Mount so that he now says, "Blessed are the NOT meek, for the laws of economics will always crown them the winners."
And, as you mentioned, even though Republicans profess to be the champions of rural people, their schemes to decentralize government harm those people at least as much as they help them. I'm reminded of a similar situation more than a decade ago, when Tea Party Republicans were claiming that the Public Broadcasting System was overfunded. Critics pointed out that PBS was already a decentralized system, meaning that cutting funding for its programs would be discriminatory against its smaller outlets. This means that children in New York City, Los Angeles, and similar places would get to watch "Sesame Street," but kids in places like Kansas or Nebraska would not be so lucky.
My theory is that the majority of lower-middle-income voters chose Trump-Vance over Harris-Walz for no other reason because the Democratic party is hardly any better, and at least the Republicans have no shame about hitting the money shot with their "patriot porn./"
@@TheDanielCityHeroes And guess what happens to people when they move to the cities? That's right. Urban areas are ideologically vampiric, and immigrants to those places tend to get "vampirized" within a generation or two. That's how American Jews went from being socially conservative Russian farmers to "woke" agitators marching through New York's streets - and almost overnight, too.
I want to expand the postal services to include banking and becoming a public internet provider.
A fantastic idea. I’d happily put my taxes towards that.
Bernie suggested this. Of course, no leading Dems ever pressed for this.
Yes please. I'm very tired of ISPs deciding to throttle my internet speed because I'm streaming or whatever and charging me arbitrary fees just because they can. Nationalized internet should be a requirement to be considered a developed nation in the 21st century.
Add a cell phone service and I'm with you. Okay, I'm with you anyway, but still.
If we were collectively smarter as a nation, we would have both of those. Too bad those ideas are too good to exist.
The United States Postal Service, even in its present state, is a phenomenal service. In addition to last-mile service, which makes rural life so much easier, having mobile people in your neighborhood provides a community service. I know of two specific instances of people who had fallen or suffered a seizure in their home and were helped because the mail carrier noticed a break in their routines. They were used to seeing these people out and about.
Public services provide connection that businesses simply cannot.
@@guillermoperezsantosmaga troll.
That happened here in the uk, it wasn't and still isn't good
They actually privatized your mail service?!?
I didn’t know that. Surprising.
@@ileneragland369 No they privatised the mail service, The Royal Mail, in 2013. Royal Mail and The Post Office were once part of the same government entity.
@itsrickyschannel. Royal mail to us would be like overnight! LOL if Trump mess3s with our mail it will be to suppress votes! I actually feel that might what happened this time. I hate that guy with an unholy passion. I don't think the anti-christ could be as bad!
US American have no idea how good we have it here postal service wise. 😢
I tell my local postal workers thank you and they're doing a great job!
Generally speaking, Americans just don't have an idea.
Iirc it’s self sufficient and doesn’t use extra taxes to run. Why would anyone get rid of something like that!
@@destronger5313 literally so absurd! It is incredible they actually function as well as they do despite how much Congress has tried and tried to ruin it so that they can privatize it
I love my mailman he is so friendly. Glad he is protected by the constitution, as well as all of our beloved USPS.
As a postal worker, there's a lot that I could say, but I don't want to write a novel.
So thank you, and Happy Holidays.
DeJoy is sabotaging ya'll? His new plan for sorting and routing mail is causing delays on purpose?
The GOP’s modus operandi has always been;
Why do something for people when you could do it for profit
To them, If you are too poor to afford something, you don’t deserve it.
This
Have a plan that will be terrible for their voters, convince their idiot voters to love the terrible plan, enact plan, blame Democrats for the inevitable disaster.
Which is why meritocracy is a myth.
I mean...the Secret Service doesn't make a profit. It was not specified in the founding documents...therefore.....
Do you mean that?
@@jimwing.2178 I mean...the Air Force doesn't make a profit. It was not specified in the founding documents...therefore....
@@KevinFeeley_KHF But do you mean...it...therefore...?
@@KevinFeeley_KHF But, do you mean...it...therefore...?
@@jimwing.2178 I mean...the National Highway System doesn't make a profit. It was not specified in the founding documents...therefore....
My friend ,hasn't it ever crossed your mind that he doesn't care if he's allowed to or not? That is what makes them dictators.
Not too many people seem to be willing to stand up to him and there are a lot of people getting in line for him.
Just the fact that he's not sitting in a cell right now tells you that.
I am more worried right now than I've ever been in my life about the future of America
Same here
The people that need to hear you and the others with the truth will never hear you. They don't watch you channels. They don't want to think for themselves, too much effort. They love playing victim. They just digest and believe their orange god. Need to find another way to reach their brains.
@@positivevibetec TRUE
@roxanaheath8098 right bec the demons in office are doing such an AMAZING job
Wake up tootsie. He's been in office before and he NEVER tried to control us like the current individuals. Stop following what the media told you to think and think for yourself.
My great uncle Ron... A wounded veteran on the VA, then after a failed business as a TV sales and repair store owner, became a 40 year postal postal worker collecting government pension... Ron votes republican every time. The R party is trying to destroy the benefits that brought him a comfortable retirement despite his entrepreneurial best efforts. He is very a low informed Reagonite and stubborn... and I pity him and the rest of his fellow Iowans that will be hit hardest by repub policy.
the Republican party is absolutely the party of "fuck you, got mine" nowadays, and this is a pretty clear (albeit anecdotal and individual) example of that.
Canada's postal service is currently on strike and needs our support. Many postal workers were laid off, increasing the workload of the remaining workers without an increase in pay and their pensions are being threatened. Many people are ignoring the need to support them because their services are needed but that doesn't nullify the need to treat the workers as people. Class solidarity, it's important.
That's one of our problems in America. Ppl don't get "strength in numbers." Having a workforce where unions are common, teaches ppl that we must stay together and fight.
Raygun in the 80s, created the myth that still exists in CONservative brains: "rugged individualism," of never trusting your own govt, of the 17th century fairytale of "picking yourself up by your own bootstraps."
We are a nation basically now of "every man/woman for themself."
Poisonous myths that only disintegrate society.
anything an american can do?
@@wesleywyndam-pryce5305baby we gotta worry about the massive stinky pile of dog shite that is coming to strip us of our hard earned rights, Canada can handle their own
I hope
I agree. When did we in America stop our solidarity with our fellow workers? I'm old enough to remember what solidarity looked like. It seems to me that Poland had an entire political movement around solidarity. Does anyone else remember Lech Walęsa?
What's the issue? Privatizing always improves things! Like Healthcare, Prisons, and doing your taxes. Don't look deeper into those, just trust me.
Got enough lemons at your sarcasm-party? Quite a puckered appearance.
Hmmmmm
Can you imagine making the Post Office work like an Amazon warehouse?
That’s a horror movie’s setup right there.
Trump immediately harming those Republicans who live in the middle of nowhere and voted for him- and they don't even understand it
ALSO- using the term "efficient" is extremely contradictory. I would assume based on volume that the USPS is already by far the MOST efficient mail carrier
When they say "efficient" they're thinking "profitable."
Before DeJoy starting "cutting costs" before the 2020 election you could reliably ship live animals through the USPS when no other service will. The USPS was able to pull that off for decades.
They are very very efficient. Never lost one package. UPS has yet to deliver my packages to my current address. They lost every one of them. 10 total. Talk about inefficient, the private sector always wins the inefficiency award.
As for UPS, they win the Least Likely to Graduate High School award. Dumb arses.
@@giladpellaeon1691 Hell the postal service used to deliver children. No I an not talking about a woman going into labor. People used to send their kids to visit relative by packing a lunch, pinning postage to them, and handing the kids over to the mail carriers.
What does 'efficient' mean in this context?
It's definitely the worst idea I've ever heard in relation to the postal service.
Just thinking of how shoddy, unpredictable UPS and FedEx have become in their services, the privatization can't be done with OUR USPS.
@@andreah6379 Re: shoddy UPS service - in the past year, UPS has failed to deliver packages directly to me... in a major city, while I was at home (so no realistic excuse for the failure). Instead they dropped it off at a local business being used as a UPS Access Point and just stuck a note on my door.
There was an episode of American Dad where Steve entered a model rocket contest. He tried to ask Stan for help and Stand then asked him If that model rocket made him any money. When Steve said no Stan just said" Then it has no value.
That was supposed to be a parody of Republicans, reality is so much worse.
I don't know where I got the idea, but I always thought the government exists in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, whatever it costs in terms of money, status, or lives.
No, that's Marxism. Your government is supposed to enrich the most valuable members of society
Kleptocracy.
De Joy
For the profit, off the people, for the Republicans
Steve, you hit the proverbial nail on the head! That is the existential difference between Democrats and Republicans. Not only are they motivated to make as much money as they possibly can, but also to do it at any cost, including, taking it from the less fortunate.
I'd argue *especially* taking it from the less fortunate. They're absolutely the party of "Fuck you, got mine" now.
It's weird how so many Americans can support the idea of getting rid of tens of thousands of good paying American jobs with actual benefits, and in exchange get more Amazon-type jobs, higher costs, and then send all of the "savings" from doing so into the pockets of the same few rich people who have most of the money already.
American stupidity is a chronic illness.
Americans are just weird
Please no! I can't even think about the destruction of the post office!
THIS ⏫
No doubt they believe that if you can't make a profit from it, it shouldn't exist.
And that’s why they are famously anti-military, anti-roads, anti-free-parking, anti-suburbs, and pro-property-taxes. Oh, wait, their ideological consistency doesn’t extend to government services they like or to privatization that might cost them directly.
Worse - they want a situation where the government hands them lots of money to generate profits. Example -Chicago sold off parking meter rights to a corporation (one time lump sum that hand over the rights for 75 years, I think?)... and now the city contractually owes money to that business whenever there is a road closure that prevents parking on a street (e.g., closing for road or utility work, or blocking off for a festival)
Fed-ex can't figure out where my front door is. I'm not sending anything through them.
Hell, you're lucky to even get them to commit to a date of delivery!
They keep delivering my Dad's stuff to his barn instead of the front door of the house.
Not only should the Post Office not be privatized, they should add basic banking and check cashing services to them
Who are they and them?
@@jimwing.2178 the US government and the Postal Service. Pretty clear from the context.
*Restore basic banking services. The Post Office had a banking service for half of the 20th century.
I don't think people realize how much more expensive UPS would be, if they could get away with charging whatever rather than giving shippers the option to pass it onto the post office for delivery, if you get a UPS parcel from your postman, its because the people who shipped it went for a discounted rate, and I doubt they are passing that savings to you.
As more and more people are finding out (because a good chunk of this country seems to have been asleep at the wheel), companies are more than happy to pass extra cost caused by stupid politicians on to us
It’s not the worst idea I’ve ever heard… But it is up there among the worst!
No. It is the worst. Everything Dump says is wrong, stupid, thoughtless. He doesn't use USPS. Greedy rich don't give a crap. They don't use USPS.
The terrible ideas that rank above it includes such things as:
Private healthcare
For profit prisons
Killing everyone so one guy can be richer (in too many ways)
& So much more!
The US Postal Service is, after Congress, literally the oldest extant organ of the US government, and for good reason, since the founders knew how critical it was for the effective functioning of society, and until recently its efficiency and dependability has stood as a testement to the effectiveness of having a necessary public good guaranteed by and for society as a whole, to the effect that it has served as a model for postal services around the world, and this has always been a glaring threat to the profit driven sectors of our economy.
I say get rid of the USPS. Bring back the USPOD. Overturn the Postal Reorganization Act and make it a cabinet position again. Like it was for nearly 200 years.
@alenahubbard1391 i concur, with full federal funding and lower shipping rates, and make the billionaires and their corporations pay for it
We privatized our healthcare and the general satisfaction with that is famously high right now, lets do the same with our postal service! I'm sure my mail won't be delayed, denied, or deposed.
/s
Great snark!
You forgot the “/s”. Lots of people don’t get it.
@@brynpookc1127i cant imagine the person who can be on a politics channel and not recognize "delayed, denied, or deposed" which is the obvious sarcasm marker, sorry.
@@erierierierierie nah, they got a point. Due diligence and whatnot…
@@BeefyBacardi oh i think i was sounding like i was against it. im just being dumb and in an argumentative mood over something i dont really care about either way. my bad.
You've highlighted it so well, these rights were always taken for granted, are things that Trump and his follows do not understand or think about, but will be sorely missed.
Up until 2006 the USPS was the only government agency that generated revenue. That was until the Republican house mandated the Postal Service to prefund retiree benefits decades in advance. That’s exactly why it’s the fkn mess it is today.
70-some BILLION in that fund. That requirement cause a financial crisis for USPS.
I always keep a slush of a couple of books if stamps on hand, hopefully making a small personal loan to them.
We are in a town of 1800 people in NE Oregon. Amazon sends most of its packages through the USPS and they show up in our mailbox.
I remember years ago, while working in a public school, administrators came along that spoke of treating schools like a business! Poor little children and parents.
These people look a business able to sustain itself, and think "you should charge more. I'd like to pay more money for the same quality of service, so that your boss's boss can enjoy a big fat paycheck"
This is fundamentally the real difference: not small government vs. big government but government to protect the societal well-being vs. government to protect the social order.
Absolute mendacity and part of the Constitution. Article I, Section 8, Clause 7, aka the “Postal Clause”.
The guy just elected into office doesn't really concern himself too much what the Constitution says about anything.
If the Constitution still had any meaning in this country, he wouldn't even have been permitted to run for the office.
Privatizing fire departments and police come next.
OK. Then my local govt needs to refund me back my property taxes I've been paying all these years.
No. We all need to fight privatizing everything in this country.
Greedy RW billionaire, Charles Koch, has had a wet dream of US privatizing all govt--handing everything off to greedy CEOs.
If you aren't getting what you need like your Soc Sec, then he says go beg in church or on the streets.
These RW billionaires are all sociopaths.
I don't think they would privatize the police. If anything they'll combine them with the military depending on how things go in the next few decades.
@@Fenriswaffle I can't say for sure, but I'd bet that the unmarked black shirts who terrorized and abducted citizens during the 2020 police brutality demonstrations were a for-profit outfit hired by Trump's administration.
They used to have private fire and police departments . They were a protection racket, run by "Insurance Companies". My neighbor acquired some antique house badges from one of the companies and has them attached to his 130 year old house.
@ Yup! Well said.
Great timing. I have a friend who has worked as a mail carrier for years, and I have a vague idea about his job. I’m writing tribute for the USPS for Christmas Day, after having thanked my friend like he was a veteran this morning.
There are people in this country who rely on the USPS for communication. They do not have computers or smart phones. The USPS is vital to their existence, not everyone is a part of the wired in generation!
It always amuses me when people say business is more efficient than government. It can be true, especially if the governments is run poorly, but a lot of big business is run poorly too and the company I work for has probably wasted more money in my specific location than I'll have made in my entire life combined.
And then you have republicans who get into office to make government run poorly ON PURPOSE.
Australia semi-privatised (made self-funding, incentivising price increase and service decrease) and we instantly got a doubling of the time it took to receive mail.
Right around the same time, the CEO was handing out $20k watches as ‘rewards’ for other executives negotiating postal deals with some of the biggest banks. In fairness to the CEO, this wasn’t unusual conduct for CEOs whose business runs on the profit motive. But as a ‘public service’ mid-pandemic that had just increased prices and decreased service, it was repulsive.
What would they plan to do with the US Postal Inspection Service?
It’s the oldest police agency in the US, literally founded by Benjamin Franklin.
Expand its remit to cover private carriers, probably, but also require it only to investigate opponents of the GOP
The one time I had a problem getting a package a friend sent me was with Fedex. I have NEVER had an issue with the USPS.
Whoever was delivering my package from Fedex kept leaving before anyone could get to the door. I've heard the knock and by the time I got to the door they were gone. Eventually they left a final ticket and I had to get a lift from my brother to get out to a Fedex facility to get it.
And UPS use to be reliable, but always more expensive. Now it's both expensive AND unreliable.
Last time I monitored delivery by UPS and they couldn't even confirm the package was ever delivered. What am I paying through the nose for with UPS, anyway??
@@andreah6379
Oh I've heard stories. Namely when this collection for the Fallout games came out. It was Fallout 1 to New Vegas that came win a container shaped like a mini nuke from the latter two games, even has a button that makes it make noise.
Anyway, was looking up people's experiences and one person said theirs came from UPS and looked like it was dropped in a lake. Luckily they were able to fix the electronic parts. This made me a bit paranoid especially when I saw mine was coming via UPS. Luckily I got it without incident, though I am a bit concerned now since another pretty important collectible is coming to me via Fedex.
I'm shocked you even had someone knock on your door. I've had FedEX just claim that the address is wrong on the package so they don't even have to stop at my house. I call and confirm the address is correct, they can't attempt redelivery but I can come pick it up. So I drive almost an hour away to pick it up and they tell me nobody held the package despite the conclusion of the phone call being that I was coming to get it so hold it. Thankfully it was still there but the whole ordeal was just a series of incomptenent and/or lazy people. I hate FedEX and do not want USPS to become another FedEX.
Speaking truth to power.
More extraction of wealth from poor workers.....
Not just workers. Regular & poor people have benefitted. God forbid .
Ugh. Privatized government institutions makes them beholden to the capitalists, even more than it already is.
Sociopaths are all about control...while they pick our pockets clean.
Nobody else delivers mail. They have neither the capacity nor the interest
But, there's millions of pockets to be picked, don't you know?!
Nor the legal permission.
The USPS is the only part of the federal government that is required to be self-funding and provide for their employees' benefits and pensions. All done so when there are funding problems, greedy Republicans would have an excuse to call for privatization.
The head of the post office LITERALLY COVERED HIS EARS like a toddler at a hearing discussing the issue
🖖🏽 A terrible idea! They actually need to bring back post office BANKING (which got shut down bc lobbyists for the big banks GOT it shut down bc they couldn't compete with how GOOD postal banking was!) Reagan's zombie lie that government can never be as efficient or as good as for-profit organizations lives on! 🖖🏽
Seconded!
E specially when the choice becomes between government services or no service, and for a lot of people there will just be no service if all mail services are privatized.
I say get rid of the USPS. Bring back the USPOD. Overturn the Postal Reorganization Act and make it a cabinet position again. Like it was for nearly 200 years.
Here in Canada there are those advocating privatization of our postal system as well, particularly after a month-long lockout of postal workers by management. Scary.
I couldn’t of said it better Steve! Agree agree agree!!
The grade school privatization is gonna be real bad and it is so sad and wrong
We're all so completely and utterly fucked.
I know a Trumpist who goes on about privatizing education. I asked him what would happen if you lived in an area with ONE high school. If you privatize that school, and the company running it decides that it's unprofitable and shutter its doors, what happens to the kids in that area? Do they just not get an education.
His response? That would never happen.
ask him what he thinks happened to rural hospitals
Living in a country where the postal service was privatised years ago, allow me to tell you that it does not work out well. For anyone. At all.
We did this here in the Netherlands. It is one big disaster. And we are a small country.
privatising the mail service is a small step to controlling absentee voting
My local post office held a package that had an address mistake. Drove in, showed Photo ID to confirm address, and poof, had it.
A corporation drone could easily say sorry, too late. A mandated service that runs correctly always provides better service.
Don’t you know, Steve? For-profit colleges, privatized health care, and private prisons have only made things *better* for everyone! .
🤮😡. I can't laugh.
Reminds me of one of my favorite movies, Robocop, where a big corporation bought the city police department.
And didn't that work out just fine
At least in Robocop the cops finally did the right thing
Yeah, OCP. Omni Consumer Products..
@@eldridgedavis *Oppressive Capitalist Pigs
@@stargatecommand714 Well, it is fiction.
The point of a business is to give you as little as possible while receiving from you as much as possible in order to maximize profits. This idea makes us customers. Can’t wait to be a customer of the fire department waiting for my credit card payment to clear before they extinguish my house fire.
You don't have to wait. An American town charges a yearly fee. When a resident didn't pay they let his house burn down.
A line I have heard a few time from urbanist communities when talking about public transit seems appropriate here; Public services don't exist to make money, they exist to serve the public.
I work in a small town as the only postman, 6 days a week, and I can't tell you how many people appreciate and even need the postal office. I work with people all the time, every day and honestly I sometimes feel like I'm helping the community with what I do, it feels good to do this job, to me.
How do some of the same people who insist that the constitution is 'sacred', at least when it comes to the 2nd amendment, casually dismiss the constitutional basis for the Postal Service?
I wish the word “PROFITIZE” would replace “Privatize”. It would really say it all.
Interesting that he never says who he’s hearing anything from…
The voices in his head
@@remrad4315 also, I think he is just spouting things regardless of whether he can or cannot actually do it. He’s used to things just “happening”.
@@3182john I think he's just trying to get people talking.
I am a postal worker in a very rural area. I have done it for nearly a decade. We must not allow them to privatize the USPS
Imagine a time when the GOP says that the police and the military need to be run like a business and self-funding.
Then we'll know we're all fucked.
I won’t put it past them. They like for profit healthcare and prisons. Pinkerton and Blackwater come to mind too.
they'll never say that about the military and the police. they're bootlickers to law enforcement and the military industrial complex
@@jpt7342huge. Massive waste of our money. Made up conflicts and engagements to fund the likes of Halliburton. Always something going on.
They already tried that, in a limited fashion, in Iraq. Using merc's like Blackwater.
Steve you are a remarkable youngman, I wish there were a lot more like you .❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'm sure privatizing the USPS would work just as good as the health insurance.
just like Fire Departments and Police are public services.
Unlike the police, the postal service is not a gang
@@MrZauberelefantand they are much more efficient
@@eldridgedavisactually, the USPS does have to help you with your mail
Bravo Steve! 👏👏👏
Can't wait for Walmart and Amazon to be dictating how quickly packages can get delivered from its competitors and small business.
Profit? So how much is Louis DeJoy being paid?
I could NEVER figure out why people will complain about the price of a postage stamp.
There have been seven postage hikes since DeJoy took office in Jun 2020 and the way he's got the mail being routed and sorted makes NO SENSE. It's actually causing delays.
@phiksit That is the point. Destroy a public service and manufacture consent to have it privatized
I just looked it up. In the US, stamps are 73c delivery 1-5 days (well it's a biiiiig country) In the UK, a first class stamp guaranteeing next day delivery (tiny country compared to the US) is £1.65! Second class (guaranteeing delivery in 2 days) is 65p and that's what almost everyone gets where it is not urgent. Plus our stamps (UK) have bar codes and nowadays, when the price goes up, you get a certain amount of time to use them and then they are no good. US stamps and UK 2nd class stamps seem reasonable to me.
Government IS NOT A BUSINESS! I don't know why that's so hard for people to understand.
It is NOW.
When he kept calling the united states a 3rd world country, I guess he was talking about the future
The other important thing here is last mile delivery as you note. This ironically would raise prices for rural residents the most.
Imagine that mail is constitutionally required … Trump is lacking understanding of our Constitution…
What a day for you to post this! Here in the UK the government has just approved the sale of the Royal Mail to a foreign (Czech) billionaire. I’ve often said against the privatisation of the RM which happened nearly 12 years ago now “even the USA has a publicly owned postal service”. Usually we follow you into the neoliberal abyss.
Oligarchs never miss an opportunity to steal or grift, enjoy the rising prices.
Privatize the postal service? Hell no!!! Americans need it for everyday use. Leave it alone @ Trumpig!!!
Privatize it: make it work even less efficiently and cost even more. That's what they value
Ah that's cool, I hated getting my mail delivered anyways.
Don't worry though, this WILL make the eggs cheaper guys.
This argument is wasted starting with the middle class. They do not want public housing in their neighbourhood. "I pay higher taxes and therefore my local school should be better funded"... My sister said that. She is absolutely against public housing in her district because poor people would benefit from her taxes, middle class. She does not want poor people to gain the benefit of equally distributed taxation. WTF do you think that plays out like in the head of a billionaire? I am not even American. People are self serving arseholes.
As a rich ***, Trump would never be negatively effected by privatizing the post office. So it’s no wonder that he would think doing something like this might be a good idea. The thing that baffles me is that many of his supporters are people that would be negatively effected by this kind of thing and yet they somehow always give him a pass.
Ex-Royal Mail worker.I hope your union are stronger than our CWU!Sold workers down the river and just been sold to a Czech Billionaire.Predict price hikes for an inferior service.✌️
I believe postal service needs to be maintained within the constitution. I also believe that the post office should have it's budget dramatically increased and that it's use up to a certain weight should be 100% free within the U.S.A. (Including non-contiguous states and territories).
What's next? WHAT WONDERFUL BRIGHT IDEAS. UP YOURS TRUMP!!!! He's wanted to do this forever. Can't do: WE THE PEOPLE! What an ass again.
What UPS, Amazon, FedEx, DHL, and others do is the manage the first and last miles, relying on the USPS to handle all the middle miles. If USPS were a private service, that $10 2 day delivery you pay UPS and others would shoot up to at least $30 if those same companies had to handle all of it by themselves.
I don't think anyone realizes how bad it's going to get yet. How many tens of millions of people are going to die.
Well technically everyone alive now will at some point not be. Now is the time to be rational and coalesce to speak your mind.
Whenever Trump does a speech he just holds himself and looks around like a child?
It's all about concentration of wealth at the expense of the worker!