Privatize the post office

[yoyo]

To compare this to health care, the post office is a little like medicare, they serve everybody, including the people private companies will not.  Fed Ex will not deliver a letter to the sticks of Alaska, or at least not for 44 cents, and private insurance companies would never be able to insure the elderly with preexisting conditions at an affordable rate.

Both will have people fighting for their existence, even when they do not make financial sense.

[PSUROCKS]

To compare this to health care, the post office is a little like medicare, they serve everybody, including the people private companies will not.  Fed Ex will not deliver a letter to the sticks of Alaska, or at least not for 44 cents, and private insurance companies would never be able to insure the elderly with preexisting conditions at an affordable rate.

Both will have people fighting for their existence, even when they do not make financial sense.

Well, if that's the case, they have to raise their letter rates.  I have long thought it was crazy to charge the same to send a letter a mile down the road as it was to say, Alaska.  Maybe they need geographic rates or something like that. 

[Cobnobuler]

....Ever notice how slow those PO employees at the downtown office move..? Yeah, they need a raise. They dont care how many people are lined up, they got one speed no matter what. Slow.
This government elephant has no answer to the far more efficient medium of instant E-mail and online payments. End Saturday delivery?  Heck they could end Saturday and Thursday too and nobody would notice or care. I can get my JC Penny circular any old time.

[PSUROCKS]

....Ever notice how slow those PO employees at the downtown office move..? Yeah, they need a raise. They dont care how many people are lined up, they got one speed no matter what. Slow.
This government elephant has no answer to the far more efficient medium of instant E-mail and online payments. End Saturday delivery?  Heck they could end Saturday and Thursday too and nobody would notice or care. I can get my JC Penny circular any old time.

Yeah, that's why I have to laugh when people say a private company couldn't do it.  They invented the internet...........I can send an e-mail most anywhere in the world in a couple of seconds.  I'm sure someone can figure out a more economical way to deliver a letter to Alaska.

[yoyo]

Yeah, that's why I have to laugh when people say a private company couldn't do it.  They invented the internet...........I can send an e-mail most anywhere in the world in a couple of seconds.  I'm sure someone can figure out a more economical way to deliver a letter to Alaska.

Really? Then why hasn't somebody done it?  Who is stopping somebody from stepping up and making a fortune at it? FedEx, UPS, DHL etc line up to deliver packages, and compete directly with the USPS.  If there was money in delivering letters and junkmail to every address in the country then why hasn't somebody doing.  It has got to be easy right, their only competition is an inefficient government agency.

Also try getting boradband internet so you can send out your quick emails in those really out of the way places that also make it difficult to deliver mail.

[dogman]

Yeah, that's why I have to laugh when people say a private company couldn't do it.  They invented the internet...........I can send an e-mail most anywhere in the world in a couple of seconds.  I'm sure someone can figure out a more economical way to deliver a letter to Alaska.

HEY, wait a minute!  I thought Al Gore invented the internet.  Damn, now I need to find a new hero.

[Wiener]

Really? Then why hasn't somebody done it?  Who is stopping somebody from stepping up and making a fortune at it? FedEx, UPS, DHL etc line up to deliver packages, and compete directly with the USPS.  If there was money in delivering letters and junkmail to every address in the country then why hasn't somebody doing.  It has got to be easy right, their only competition is an inefficient government agency.

Also try getting boradband internet so you can send out your quick emails in those really out of the way places that also make it difficult to deliver mail.

The Constitution Article 1 section 7 #7 To establish Post Offices and post Roads.

Now you see this is one area of a very few that the Federal Government is given total control.  Look how bad they screwed it up, they were so busy sticking their noses into places it didn't belong that they could not even manage to run one of the very few programs they were set up to run. 

What you should ask yourself is how does the military run so well and everything else they touch goes to the crapper in high speed?

[beefman]

Yeah, and almost all of them had crazy powerful unions..........see GM. 

The last time i checked the chevy dealer down the street still had cars for sale. Now lets talk about some of the  banks and wall street investment firms that failed without the help of the "evil" unions. Greed will get you every time union or not.