Timothy Birdnow

The U.S. Postal Service appears to be on it's last legs.

This is so typically liberal; instead of improving service and getting rid of dead wood (which a LOT of the employees at the USPS represent) their answer is to raise prices. Yeah; that'll fix things!

I had to set a relative straight about this; she argued it was Trump's fault because DOGE cut their funding. I had to explain to her that the Post Office is actually a private company wholly owned by the U.S. government but with it's own funding mechanism (stamps) and that DOGE had nothing to do with any deficit. The USPS just spent too much money and failed to run efficiently and now wants taxpayers to bail them out.

But why? You can get the same services from Fedex for cheaper and get it more efficiently.

Postal workers are represented by the American Postal Worker's Union, and they have systematically looted the USPS funds for decades now, and protected incompetent or lazy workers. Now those chickens are coming home to roost.

Yes, daily mail has become digital and so fewer people are sending paper letters and bills and whatnot, but that should mean cheaper prices, not higher. If you want to increase business you cut prices, not raise them.

While it's a sad thing the post office is no longer needed. Perhaps it's time to let it die an unlamented death.

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