US Post Office is prototypical for a future bankrupt America

is the Post office pointing to a future bankrupt America

  • yes

    Votes: 20 64.5%

  • No

    Votes: 4 12.9%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 7 22.6%
  • Total voters
    31
So it's a borrow, like how the banks borrowed from the govt via TARP.

After restucturing and probably passing new laws to avoid making unprofitable deliveries everyday, they'll be back in the black and the degenerates can complain about that.

Why do I say degenerate?

These credit card companies are evil.

Actuarial science is probably too difficult for some people to understand. So let's use the term evil. Maybe the cc companies are run by witches.

And the US WILL NOT devalue the dollar. What a bold faced lie. USD down like 13-15% this year?

Explain this one. It's wrong, but I get a laugh out of tea party logic.
 
Quote from Covertibility:

Facts and figures about your Postal Service


0 — tax dollars received for operating the Postal Service


It's been repeated a couple times on this site yet those with the walnut sized gland in their heads probably still can't factor in this reality.
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Their monopoly on first class mail is a subsidy which has real costs to consumers in the form of higher costs and poorer service. You can argue that maybe the monopoly is justified, but it's not accurate to say that a monopoly has no costs. Monopolies always come with a cost.
 
Quote from bigarrow:

zdreg what didn't you understand?
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"the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation"

there is an assumption that this is vital regardless of cost. I don't agree.
 
I knew what you meant, just messing around.
Really the only thing that matters is that the US Postal service operates without tax dollars.
Is there a law stopping a company from entering the daily pickup of mail? If not then pool your money and start your own company or invest with someone who will. Problem solved and the end of all this pointless griping.
 
USPS could chop every zipcode into three slices. One slice gets Mon & Thr mail delivery, one Tue & Fri, one Wed & Sat. Get rid of 2/3 of the mail carriers. Problem solved. Most mail is junk these days anyway.
 
Quote from bigarrow:

I knew what you meant, just messing around.
Really the only thing that matters is that the US Postal service operates without tax dollars.
Is there a law stopping a company from entering the daily pickup of mail? If not then pool your money and start your own company or invest with someone who will. Problem solved and the end of all this pointless griping.
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the USPO is a legal monopoly on non urgent 1st class mail.
http://www.directcreative.com/blog/is-the-government-monopoly-on-mail-a-good-thing

consider changing your handle to the more accurate small arrow.
 
Try to block all your junk mail! Call the Post Office. They will refer you to some third party service that will beg on your behalf to get your name off the mailing lists... The Unions fight but they give you an ineffective out, more junk mail means more jobs.. it also means that whole Canadian Forests are cut down every year and thrown away but the Union doesn't give a rat's ass about that...

As an aside, here is how to stop your junk mail: take all the items with prepaid return envelopes and cut them up, leave in the part with your name and address, put them in the envelopes randomly, send them back on the issuer's dime... your junk mail will be reduced by 95% overnight because the junk mailers don't want you messing with them like that... if you have a relative with dementia do that, they won't buy a hundred magazine subscriptions so they can win the big prize...
 
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