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Re: Trump orders Postal Service review after blasting Amazon deal

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This is the kind of authoritarian bullshit that putin does to keep the oligarchs in line. You can be sure that if trump remains in office, he’ll keep going after wealthy people that criticize him using any lever he can reach in the federal government, and there are a lot of levers. And he’ll use different levers to reward people that fall in line.

It’s bullying, mob-boss tactics.

Re: Trump orders Postal Service review after blasting Amazon deal

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In the last week I've received packages shipped via DHL and via Fedex that used SmartPost, where the USPS actually delivers the package. I don't remember ever having a UPS-to-SmartPost shipment. If the USPS is cheaper than these global shippers for the last-mile deliver, it might be a sign that they're not charging enough. At least in my town, they also don't seem to be very efficient - two Saturdays ago I was working in the yard and the post office went by four times during a six hour period. I can understand that the package delivery might be a different than their normal service route but shouldn't the three package deliveries have been one vehicle on our street one time? UPS is a master of route efficiency.

Re: Trump orders Postal Service review after blasting Amazon deal

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The package delivery business side of the USPS is a profitable venture. The USPS is in the state it is in not because of Amazon or last mile delivery that is doing for other businesses. The core problem is Congress and the requirement they put is the USPS that they prefund 75 years of pensions. A requirement placed on no other institutions in the US.

Re: Trump orders Postal Service review after blasting Amazon deal

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The whole "USPS is a in a fiscal hole" thing is part of the privatization playbook. It is in a hole, but it's a deliberately created hole:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/the-right-wings-assa...

Note who owns the newspaper cheerleading for privatization:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/09/2...

I wonder if they have any ideas about potential buyers?

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