Postal service delays plan to end Saturday mail delivery

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[TNF]

Thank god.

[Indy Texas]

I truly pity the CEO of USPS. People in Congress constantly berate you for having a company that loses money, and then when you try to run your company profitably, Congress doesn't let you.

[TNF]

I truly pity the CEO of USPS. People in Congress constantly berate you for having a company that loses money, and then when you try to run your company profitably, Congress doesn't let you.

Except the USPS isn't a company, it's a constitutionally specified public service.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I truly pity the CEO of USPS. People in Congress constantly berate you for having a company that loses money, and then when you try to run your company profitably, Congress doesn't let you.

Except the USPS isn't a company, it's a constitutionally specified public service.

No, the USPS is the government-owned company that since 1971 has provided the specified post offices.  It would be quite possible for the government to choose any number of ways of providing postal service, and a large majority of them would be better than the current system.

[DC Al Fine]

I truly pity the CEO of USPS. People in Congress constantly berate you for having a company that loses money, and then when you try to run your company profitably, Congress doesn't let you.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

From what I understand, the public largely supports ending Saturday mail delivery. What gives?

[7,052,770]

Instead of cutting out Saturdays ... RAISE PRICES.

Jesus, only 47 cents to mail a piece of paper anywhere in the country?  That's farcically low...

Raise it to a couple dollars and add Sunday delivery.

[TNF]

Instead of cutting out Saturdays ... RAISE PRICES.

Jesus, only 47 cents to mail a piece of paper anywhere in the country?  That's farcically low...

Raise it to a couple dollars and add Sunday delivery.

Bringing back the postal banking system would be a good idea, too.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Bringing back the postal banking system would be a good idea, too.

Not really.  It was already dying from lack of use when they killed it.

[Beet]

Along with the 3/5ths clause, the USPS is another example that just because something's in the Constitution, it doesn't make it a good idea. The government has no business being in this outdated industry.

[dead0man]

Especially if the system is so stupid that it charges the same rate to send a letter from Key West to Nome as it does to send a letter across town.

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I truly pity the CEO of USPS. People in Congress constantly berate you for having a company that loses money, and then when you try to run your company profitably, Congress doesn't let you.

Republicans want the Post Office to fail and then claim that only the free market works.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Along with the 3/5ths clause, the USPS is another example that just because something's in the Constitution, it doesn't make it a good idea. The government has no business being in this outdated industry.

Actually it's a case of a constitutional provision being viewed in a strict constructionist form rather than its actual intent.  It would be as if the provisions allowing for an army and an navy were viewed to preclude having an air force.

There is no reason why those provisions could not have been used to provide for greater government involvement in telecommunications as was the case in a number of other countries.  The purpose of the clause was to ensure that communication could be reliably be made between any two people in the US, no matter where they may be.

While snail mail has declined in importance, the availability of a universal carrier of the same, available to all, has not.