Give The Republicans What They Want: Privatize The Post Office
What do the republicans want? They want to destabilize and destroy the one thing that helps small businesses and the American people the most. They want to destroy the Postal Service…an incredible world renowned postal service the likes of which has never existed before. It was actually started in 1775 and has existed and grown to be the largest and most efficient postal system in the world.
The US postal service handles 40% of the world’s cards and letters. It has 574,000 workers, has 215,625 vehicles which I believe is the largest non military fleet in the world, has 31,871 retail locations, had $67 Billion in income in 2010 and uses zero dollars of tax payers’ money.
Many in the US do not know that the republicans put a really large weight around the neck of the Postal Service and is trying to drown it by requiring them to prefund their retirement and pension benefits for the next 75 years…and do so in a 10 year period. A phenomenal and impossible feat that means that the Postal Service will have to find 5 1/2 Billion dollars each year to fund this.
Instead of helping to create jobs this could cause at least 120,000 jobs to be lost.
So, what can we expect if the Postal Service is privatized? Well one example is this, people who have had their garbage collection privatized, has seen their collection fees doubled. Everyone who uses the postal service will see their fees rise. Right now medications are mailed, the majority of all correspondence…business and otherwise are mailed, bills and checks are mailed, even grandma’s cookies are mailed.
Obviously there will be much business in the large cities for Fed ex and UPS to do, but the urban areas will prove to be unprofitable for these delivery companies, which will result in two possible scenarios.
First, the urban post offices will have to be run by the Government using tax payers’ dollars, or secondly the delivery companies will operate central offices in urban areas where patrons will be required to travel many miles to these offices to collect their mail, this could be as many as or more than 50 miles…did I mention the service or postal fees will be considerably more than 44 cents?
Oddly enough, the largest amount of inconvenience will be felt in known conservative areas where they will really feel the love from the caring Republican individuals they rushed to vote for. These are the same Republican officials who are trying to end collective bargaining, totally privatize their health care by repealing President Obama’s health care plan, Medicare and Medicaid… and of course privatize their Social Security.
I wonder if after they get a taste of the bad medicine they are voting for, they will come to their senses…unfortunately we cannot let these programs and services be privatized just for the confused and uninformed republican voters to learn their lesson and taste their bitter medicine…so, no…we cannot give them what they want!!
This article was written by the Author of the newly released book titled “Shock and Awe on America” which can be bought in print or for Kindle at Amazon.com
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10:08 am
I suppose this is the Republican version of a “jobs bill.” It’s also about voter suppression. Seniors and disabled people confined to their homes on election day, service men and women overseas, people living in rural America use absentee ballots. They CAN’T just run into town to the FedEX, UPS, DHL,or whatever and pay a ridiculous fee to ship their ballots.
1:53 pm
Must be unionized???? You know how Refukes and Tea-Fucs…hate them…. Terrible…. Would be more productive to develop more ideas to revue monies to sustain the post-office. It’s not hard, at all…if you care about saving jobs..which WE ALL know they do not. Being poor is what they like…
1:54 pm
Ignore typos..lol
1:16 pm
The post office is the only place that is a good means of tracking where offenders live. Secondly if we privatize the prisons we will have a lot more escapes of dangerous felons. Texas and Tennessee have the most escapes of violent offenders . No why they pay minimum wage and the employees supplement their income but selling and aiding the inmates. They don’t care if they loose the job, they can make as much at Mickey D’s. I love the argument that we have to pay CEO’s lots of money so they can run the company right. Event hough they bankrupted the nation and we the tax payers whom a lot of are government employees ,we actually pay our taxes. Yet you cannot pay the teachers,firefighters,military,prison employees etc a decent middle class wage. Something stinks and it isn’t in Denmark it is in the corprate board rooms of America..
10:04 am
yes, they are unionized. NALC is the union of national letter carriers. Their may be others. I’m
sure that’s why Bush passed the bill forcing the pre-funded pension funds. So he could destroy the union
and privatize the service. The repugs do want to privatize everything, as well as destroy the middle class.
WE are screwed if another repug is ever elected Pres.
8:50 am
I’m glad more and more people are writing about the GOP scam to destroy the USPS. it’s nothing but a damn fraud.
3:09 am
To the author:
Why are you saying “urban” when you really mean “rural”? I could have understood the slip should it have happened only once or twice, but you said it over and over. For those of us who understand the difference, it’s kind of distracting. LOL
I assume you’re making the argument that it would be exponentially more expensive for people in rural (“country”) areas to mail things were the post office privatized, whereas those in urban areas (“cities”) have more options like UPS or FedEx.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/urban
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rural
1:00 pm
I sincerely hope you have checked the prices of the other package companies. I use USPS specifically because it is a LOT cheaper. A package I sent to my friend in Houston that cost me $14.00 with them would have cost me in upwards of $40-$50 dollars for the exact same package. Do the math. Privatizing the Postal service can and would most likely lead to increased costs for other methods of communication. Very much what the RepubliNazies would LOVE to see. I can very much see the USPS getting more efficient and possibly closing some locations to consolidate that are no longer serving a broad base of people. But, it’s not broken. So don’t try to fix it.
12:08 pm
The postal service has cheaper rates, & we deliver a lot of items for FedEx & UPS….when they can’t, won’t, or simply find it more cost efficient to pay the postal service to deliver their items.
10:34 pm
Yes, there is business in urban areas for FedEx and UPS, but at considerable higher prices to the consumer. The lowest price UPS has to ship a letter between two addresses in the same zip codes is $22.89. Thanks, but if the Republicans won’t let the Post Office deliver it for 44 cents, I’ll just get in the car and take it over myself.
Now that I think about it, are Postal Service employees unionized? That might explain why the Republicans hate them so much.
10:28 am
Yes they are unionized and yes that is why the Republicans want them gone.
10:04 pm
Unions are crooked and are destroying the labor force!
The post office is losing money, moron! where do you get your statistics? Also it is a Federal Program, so how doe’s it not use taxpayer money?
12:06 pm
Um, the postal service uses no taxpayer money, and is only in the red due to the reasons stated in the article above. Otherwise it would be making a profit. I should know, I was a rural carrier. Also, the post office delivers a lot of the materials for UPS and FedEx. Moron.