3d ago

Is this the end of USPS?

www.motherjones.com Is this the end for the Post Office?

Trump's next target is the US Postal Service—which Americans actually like.

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Told my republican dad that Trump is gonna cut the USPS. He was basically like "no way jose, there's no way he will do that"
- It feels like the only silver lining to all of this bullshit is the amount of I Told You So's that are piling up on the table.

Fire all the Trump supporters first. There are a lot of them.
- Yeah… their team won. The idea that Trump voters will be ousted first is more fantastical than an actual day dream.

No. It’s in our Constitution. It can’t be whisked away unless it is approved through Congress.
- You have more confidence than I in the Constitution at this point.
  
  Who said I had confidence?
- You're right about it not going anywhere, but its because Amazon uses USPS as a subcontractor to deliver packages that they can't deliver reliably. Not because any of the current administration give a shit about the Constitution or what it has to say about the USPS.
- It can be systematically deconstructed and defunded until it no longer works and is non-functional and frustrating to use and then that used as an excuse to eliminate it.
  
  It can't be defunded as it's not funded in the first place.
- I think the states would have to agree to it first, wouldn’t they? Congress can’t unilaterally modify the Constitution (thank Christ).
  
  I think there needs to be a senate & congress vote AND a majority of states need to ratify the amendment after which the Supreme court does a review.
  Elon Musk and Donald Trump are so out of touch with the basic American citizen today that I’m sure they think the Postal Service is the organization that puts up road signs and highway barriers or something
- yeah, but convicted felons can't run for president, yet here we are.
  
  Yes they can. There's no law saying that. Nobody ever thought it would need to become a law.
  
  Where in our law does it say they can’t? I don’t like our situation and that it is possible.
- Don't challenge him, he will EO it and nobody will challenge it so it will become real.

Needs to be a FAFO for UPS/Fedex. How do we rebuild the postal system? 👻nationalize 👻
- That's like rebuilding a forest with a match.
  You
  set it alight
  watch it burn. Mourn the loss of an evolved ecosystem.
  recognize a dead zone
  dodge mudslides as things depending on solid ground also fail (ohai america)
  wait a generation (1-3 year for forests)
  see what grows -- note in the changing climate, it's not gonna be like before
  I don't recommend it if things have to live there during the process.

- IT'S BAD IN MY TOWN, SO THAT MEANS IT'S BAD IN ALL THE 33,904 LOCATIONS NATIONWIDE! HRUHRRURHRHRRURHRURURHRURHR
  People like you never cease to amaze me with the sheer volume of exudate that comes out of your mouths.
- I'm sorry friend. I urge you to continue to support the USPS and not give the capitalists your money.
  I'm in the opposite situation, FedEx is fucking inept here.
- Damn. UPS doesn't even bother getting the package to the right street for me.
  
  Thank DeJoy. Slowing down and degrading service was by design.

No it'll be the re-privatization of mail.
- Do you think that's a good thing?
  
  I feel like plebs who like the idea of privatizing the USPS (for the sake of “saving money” and therefore not having to pay for a service they “don’t need”) are the same folk who by definition of supporting the orange turd also like the idea of raising taxes for themselves and the majority of the US population to then give to the rich (but of course if they’re in the tax bracket where they make so much to get the tax break then fuck them).
  It’s fine if they want to flaunt their brand of crazy but at least make it make sense.

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