Funny how til relatively recently the postal service was a model of solvancy and effeciancy, then MAGICALLY when lobbiests made demands for htier own service, the post office was told they had to fund pension for the next… sixty years or so in advance. To say nothing of service they were nolonger allowed to do, such as… get this. The post office could at one time do small denomination banking. Anything below five hundred bucks in the sixties. Which would translate into a few thousand dollars now. Used to be something they could do. Then they couldn’t.
Elon Musk suggests the U.S. should privatize the Postal Service and Amtrak
Submitted 22 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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singletona@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
As a Brit I can tell you this is a bad idea.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
what a loser, cant even go in-person to a tech hub, knowing that everyone would boo him there.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 21 hours ago
Isn’t the PO already privatized? I know it isn’t funded by taxes anymore.
pdxfed@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Same playbook UK just did, they are in the middle of trying to renationalizr rail because it’s such a cluster.
nectar45@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Another episode of: “is he being malicious or is he really stupid enough to think that would improve things?” Usually the answer is sadly both