Summary
Donald Trump is considering privatizing the US Postal Service due to its financial losses, a move that could disrupt shipping and push hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of government.
Citing the USPS’s financial losses, Trump argued the agency should not rely on government subsidies.
While his specific privatization plans remain unclear, Trump previously clashed with the USPS during his first term, attempting to shift control of key functions like labor relations and rate-setting to the Treasury Department.
This move could significantly alter the structure and operations of the USPS if implemented.
Does everything have to be a business to this guy? Some things are government services bcz they need to be done, and private businesses wouldn’t make money off it. Not everything needs to be an attempt at making money off people.
Fuck the fascists. We fought the British over less tyrannical shit than what Trump is promising.
The beatings will continue until a revolution begins
Just like the first time
There’s a HUGE real estate incentive here. Yeah the service can make tons of money for whatever company comes in but the real estate imo is the big one.
IF THEY PRIVATIZE THE FUCKING MAIL I AM GOING TO SCREAM. Is nothing sacred?
Wow, so wild that the agency you crippled with a nonsensical pension funding requirement is no longer running as efficiently as you demand! what a huge surprise, no one could have seen this coming!
Super cool that the Democrats didn’t reverse that insane requirement btw.
Super cool that the Democrats didn’t reverse that insane requirement btw.
The Democrats did reverse that insane requirement. In 2022.
The democratic party is a limp dick.
Yes, but to be fair to them they did actually manage to reverse that particular nonsensical requirement.
My country did that long ago. Works worse every year… sometimes I have to wait for my Mail for a week. Used to be 24h.
Quid pro Bezos
the conservative push to destroy this incredibly successful organization continues. its already been punished more than any other entity by requiring things no other business anywhere is required to.
starve the beast. theyve forced it to make financial considerations that now put it in pretend financial trouble so they can point at it as a failure.
if the USPS was allowed to run as any other business today it would be far more successful on paper than it already is, but conservatives just cant live with that.
We’re watching in real time what we’ve criticized other generations for letting things happen. Wars, electric transportation, malls for developers, Citizen United, etc., etc.,
Good thing the Democratic administration replaced DeJoy and passed some protections while they were in charge… oh. wait
yep, the guy who demanded the dismantlement of all the new high speed sorting machines. proof biden is just a big ol conservative
Can’t replace him until a board of people fire him…and they didn’t.
There were empty seats on the board that would have tipped the balance, sitting vacant for the entirety of Biden’s term.
Not to excuse Biden, because he has fucked up on multiple fronts, but aren’t those appointments dependent on Senate confirmations and thus sitting mostly empty under Obama, which let the Cheeto Bandito take over in the first place? And IDK if the Senate would have confirmed any Biden nominees. Wouldn’t have hurt to try though.
Biden appointed, and the Senate confirmed, enough postal board members to get rid of DeJoy if Biden wanted.
But DeJoy is still there, and it’s 1000% because Biden did not want to get rid of him.
Success is measured in how many billionaires it makes. I don’t see the USPS making any billionaires. /s
it shouldn’t have to be ‘profitable’ in the first place.
It was never intended to be. That’s why it has the word “service” right there in its name.
The USPS spent $89.5 billion in operations this year, which means that even if they didn’t collect a single dime from anybody they could serve everyone in the country with every package and letter that they already did in the entirety of 2024 for about 4.475% of the Defense Department’s expenditures in that same time frame – which are just under two trillion dollars.
The Defense Department as a whole Hoovers up about 24% the Federal budget.
Therefore the fact that the conservatives have successfully bamboozled everyone into believing that the USPS should be run as a “business” in the first place is incredible. Would you support about 0.1 percent of your Federal taxes spent on granting you free Postal Service access forever? I probably would.
Wait, is it possible to run national defense as a business that’s for profit? I mean if we all have to live in a capitalist shit hole anyways why not go for broke?
yep. no one ever complains about the profitability of our ‘defense’ system which seems to do more selling than defending.
United Tesla Shipping…UTS
United Tesla Institute… UTI
Shipping Tesla Institution…STI
So many possibilities!
Call me dumb… but what does UTS actually stand for?
Google says University of Technology Sydney.
Adding “medical” to the Google search returns… University of Technology Sydney, and a health consultant in Australia.So… I’m going to go with University of Technology Sydney.
While Google results have tanked the past few years, I can’t find a combination of keywords that even suggests some sort of sexual/urinary (“naughty bits”) infection.DuckDuckGo returns Ultimate Tennis Showdown.
Adding “medical” suggests to add “syndrome” and got me to “Ulnar Tunnel Syndrome” (“ulnar neuropathy at the wrist where it passes through the ulnar tunnel”)… So, too much masturbation? I’m struggling to make it naughtyYeah… I looked it up on Wikipedia and got similar results, plus a river… IDK what they were trying to go for.
Its just like the UPS but with a T. They could also have the all new USTS!.. The United States Tesla Shipping!
Nah, Elon’s all about dat X. He’ll just call them all X.
We need another mangione to put him out of our misery
I’m not an accelerationist, but what’s left to do now except bathe in the worm glow of our country burning down?
There is no arguing that America doesn’t deserve all the bad things, and maybe a good old fashioned conflagration would straighten the survivors out for a generation or two.
Because a lot of mostly innocent people get hurt the most when it all collapses around us, and most likely you’ll also be hit by the effects of the collapse. It’s why it’s so important we work to fix the broken things and change what is wrong, and to be there for other people when things do break down rather than just wipe our hands and let the whole thing fall uncontrolled and unprepared.
I’m not an accelerationist, but what’s left to do now except bathe in the worm glow of our country burning down?
Well it’s certainly not enough to just luxuriate in the chaos. Every time Trump makes things worse it’s our job to point it out and explain why he’s doing it. People won’t radicalize on their own! They’ll just blame immigrants and woke and DEI etc etc.
Do you hear yourself? You want revolution through explaining?
Trump supporters are not confused progressives. Trump is what America wants, He’s what America is. He’s what America deserves. Trump is more American than bullets and ground beef. He hasn’t overthrown the founders, he’s fulfilled their vision. We’re not going to change that by scolding people on the internet.
I understand, I used to think just like you. I used to be a patriot. I’ve voted for every Democrat presidential nominee from Gore to Harris. But these days I’m writing to the State to take my name off those goddam rolls. I suppose you’ll take a dim view of that, but no bullshit about civic duty, democracy, or engagement could ever compare to the tangible material benefit of avoiding jury duty.
I don’t wanna save America anymore. In fact I think her decline is funny and I’m tired of pretending it’s not.
Who gives a shit about Trump supporters? The vast majority didn’t vote for Trump if you count non-voters.
Also don’t dare call me a patriot. Death to America!
No arguments that the internet is a worthless place to educate people, though. This is just for fun.
Yeah! Fuck all the people who will be hurt and killed throughout. That’s funny!
Given the country’s current mood, is it really wise for the oligarchs to threaten the livelihoods of the very group that gave us the expression going postal?
Every thing the gop has done to the usps had hurt it more… but everytime I hear “it doesn’t make money” well it did before the absolutely idiotic idea to make sure pensions were super funded forward. Ontop of that. Why the fuck does a government organization need to make money? I hate this whole “run a country like a business” bullshit so much. Money makes everything worse.
The GOP exists to oppose anything that serves the common good. They exist to transfer public wealth to private interests. That is their entire mandate
USPS doesn’t lose a dime. It’s a service. It costs money to run.
You know, like a government office does.
Same for public transit.
A bit of compensation isn’t a crazy idea, but it doesn’t have to break even with the money it does bring in. It’s not like we have a ton of toll roads either, it’s not an issue to spend billions on another lane or two.
Yeah, good luck with that.
Sincerely,
The UK, where we already had that stupid fucking idea.
It isn’t a business, it is a service, it costs money that our taxes pay, so we don’t have to pay shitty private companies. (And it still makes money) “Let’s make the Mail just like ISPs” is a stupid take.
… it costs money that our taxes pay …
Nope. USPS is entirely internally funded. No tax money goes to it at all.
We should be making ISPs more like the mail.
