Truth-Out: What We Lose With a Privatized Postal Service

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/29463-what-we-lose-with-a-privatized-postal-service#

Thursday, 05 March 2015 10:24
By Katherine McFate, OtherWords | Op-Ed

The founders of the United States recognized that commerce requires a common infrastructure.

Did you know that when you ship a package through Federal Express, the U.S. Postal Service often carries it the last mile?

Last year, the Postal Service delivered 1.4 billion packages for FedEx and UPS. In fact, it delivers the last mile for almost a third of FedEx packages. The 618,000 Postal Service workers also delivered nearly 66 billion pieces of first-class mail — that’s more than 100,000 pieces per carrier.

The Postal Service can reach all 150 million American households because it’s a public system that we’ve been investing in for over 200 years. Our Constitution tasked the federal government with creating a national postal system and told the Postmaster General to report to the president.

FULL story at link.

[freshwest]

1. Mearby P.O. is hiring most of the time. Just referred someone looking for a job there today.

[Historic NY]

2. Gop'ers just love to manulipulate the US constitution...

Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post Roads".

[ND-Dem]

3. which is why they're sucking $$ out of the PO for UPS and FeEx

[Enthusiast]

4. K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!

[Scuba]

5. Kick. Time for the USPS to add banking and ISP offerings.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. I did know this...

although UPS does deliver all the way in my neighborhood, I never use them (and my sister works for them). USPS consistently gets the package their a day quicker and a little cheaper.

[Doctor_J]

7. I can't even believe it's being discussed

Actually I can. I'm glad I'll be dead before the corporations take over completely