US Postal Service will be broke by Oct

[Throckmorton]

You assume that they would lose money. If a non-competitive government agency can almost break even on it, then competitive private companies could probably make it work. They might have to do something drastic like not pick up/deliver to every rural location every day, but I'm not really worried about that. The USPS won't pick up letters from my mailbox in a densely-populated area with 2.5 million people, so why should the guy living in the middle of a corn field expect better treatment? Making unreasonable demands on a service and expecting reasonable pricing is inherently contradictory.

The USPS delivers to every address. UPS and FedEx don't.

 

[CycloWizard]

The USPS delivers to every address. UPS and FedEx don't.

So?

 

[MooseNSquirrel]

That won't help because they will go broke too. Essentially everything in our economy is now driven by a massive PUBLIC deficit. The last time we did this was in WW2....but that deficit was driven by loans from PRIVATE individuals in the form of war bonds. This time Americans can't afford war bonds so the gov't prints or borrows money, both which will destroy us.

I disagree a bit with that. Its not that Americans can't pay, its that those who have seen the biggest financial gains over the last 30 years are being asked to pay less and less to help run the country, and obviously have a vested interest in seeing large deficits fund their low taxes.

 

[piasabird]

Just close the post office. Most of what the post office handles is advertising. Let the advertisers support the post office and do away with 2nd and 3rd class mail and bulk mail rates. Make all the advertisers pay first class. Why should they get a better rate than everyone elese?