> POINT / COUNTERPOINT: Is It Time To Dissolve The USPS? There Are No Less Than Four Major Package Delivery Services In The U.S. Other Than USPS.

Get rid of it.  People who live in rural areas or small towns that are not cost effective should just get used to not having delivery service.

No, but I'm glad they've stepped back from the nonsensical position of giving bulk discounts to pollution generating junk mailers.

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Not at all.  This is all it says:

"To establish Post Offices and post Roads"

Clearly Congress may do so.  At their discretion.  Just like roadways.  It's not hardly mandated.  Neither is raising an Army and Navy, taxing, etc., though they have the power to do that also.

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-cons … /full-text

Sure they could outsource the whole thing but they never will. You know why? USPS is the biggest affirmative action program in the federal government to prop up negro  employment. They reduced hiring standards and the civil service exam to achieve that.

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Time to raise standards back up, and repatriate the negroes to somewhere they belong.

Africa won't even have them back.

There are large parts of the country where those four companies don't and won't deliver.

SamplesBoi wrote:

Where?  Be specific.  All four.  Also, read the OP.  I acknowledge that is probably 80% of Alaska.  Which is inhabited by 100,000 people or less.  Fuq.  Them.

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You could just google.  This is what it would tell you.

Major shipping carriers and e-commerce giants, including Amazon, UPS, FedEx, and DHL eCommerce, use the USPS for last-mile delivery to residential addresses. These companies, often called "consolidators," leverage the postal service's universal network to reduce costs, particularly for lightweight packages and in less dense areas, via services like Parcel Select.

Key Companies and Partners Using USPS for Last Mile
Amazon: Continues to use USPS for a significant portion of its deliveries despite having its own logistics network.
UPS: Uses USPS for its "Ground Saver" service to handle final residential delivery.
FedEx: Utilizes USPS for "SmartPost" (now FedEx Ground Economy) to deliver packages to final destinations.
DHL eCommerce: Relies heavily on the USPS for last-mile delivery of international and domestic e-commerce shipments.

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You could just google.  This is what it would tell you.

Major shipping carriers and e-commerce giants, including Amazon, UPS, FedEx, and DHL eCommerce, use the USPS for last-mile delivery to residential addresses. These companies, often called "consolidators," leverage the postal service's universal network to reduce costs, particularly for lightweight packages and in less dense areas, via services like Parcel Select.

Key Companies and Partners Using USPS for Last Mile
Amazon: Continues to use USPS for a significant portion of its deliveries despite having its own logistics network.
UPS: Uses USPS for its "Ground Saver" service to handle final residential delivery.
FedEx: Utilizes USPS for "SmartPost" (now FedEx Ground Economy) to deliver packages to final destinations.
DHL eCommerce: Relies heavily on the USPS for last-mile delivery of international and domestic e-commerce shipments.

Already knew that.  I estimate it down to 100,000 people they can't or won't service.  Obviously international is totally irrelevant, so thanks a bunch for including that.  I stand by my numbers and I see you don't have any numbers.  Thank you for playing.

Do that and the GOP will arrange it so you are paying their donors $200 a month to receive mail and $5 per first class stamp.  That's what it is always about.  1. Removing it from a taxpayer cost so the billionaires save money.  then 2. finding a way to make it so billionaires profit more from it on the backs of normal working class people.  This is the pattern, over and over again.

Also it is a nation, not a business.  There's a huge difference.

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Another ill informbed opinion from AU. Surprise, surprise. The USPS is supposed to operate at cost with no carry from taxes. But they fuqed thembselves like all liberal governments by offering ridiculous unfunded pensions.

They’ re not allowed to close tiny money-losing post offices in low population areas that could just as well be served by drop boxes and convenience store or gas stationk that could provide space for a scale / stamp dispenser machine.