Looks like Trump and the Republicans will finally succeed with what trump started eight years ago with letting DeJoy fuck the postal service.
Good luck old people in getting your medications by mail, assholes.
It’s been going on far longer than trump. And they may not be there yet. They’ve been pulling procedural fuckery for the last 30 years minimum. But the post office itself is constitutionally mandated. It would require an amendment to the constitution. Not impossible. But also not an executive order.
Have you checked with the Supreme Court about what they think the founders intended?
It’s actually relatively safe. Most of the time they f*** things up by purposefully misinterpreting vaguely worded things. It’s pretty explicit. They would have to outdo themselves to abolish it outright.
The Constitution just says you need a postal service, it doesn’t say it needs to be government run. They can easily make an argument like that. The postmaster general would just be handing out contracts instead of running it.
I don’t see this Supreme Court pushing back too hard on any interruption similar to this.
Really? They completely fabricated history for Bruen. That’s not just misinterpreting vague wording. And then they stopped a very clearly worded EPA statute because the current Congress didn’t consent to the regulation. (A requirement never seen before or since)
Would need support for more states than they’d be able to muster up, especially the more rural states which will definitely not support this.
Here’s a bag of money Mr. Senator.
It’s been going on far longer than trump. And they may not be there yet. They’ve been pulling procedural fuckery for the last 30 years minimum.
FedEx has been fighting this battle for decades
And it didn’t seem that Biden minded anything that Dejoy was doing. It’s been a number of years where there were sufficient number on the board of Governors to get rid of Dejoy and they did nothing.
And say goodbye to mail-in ballots 🙃
Rural folks wouldn’t know what fucking hit 'em. Imagine a sliding-scale USPS delivery and fee schedule, amped up by private enterprise.
“Fuck you mean it costs $10 to send a letter from Bumfuck?!”
“Fuck you mean I gotta wait a month longer than city folk!?”
Y’all, delivery’s bad enough in the sticks without this crap. And another reason not to fuck with the USPS, those guys are the one government agency everyone deals with personally and loves. Who doesn’t know their carrier?
Ask the Brits how they like their privatized royal mail these days.
Shipping would get soooo expensive. I ship all over the US and the pricing from UPS and FedEx stays competitive with USPS, and often USPS will do the last mile delivery in more rural zones. If you remove the limiting price point that the USPS provides to the market, these private shippers will raise prices so high, so fast, it’ll make your head spin.
The margins these companies are willing to charge an individual is actually obscene. I ship pallets every so often, so I have a FedEx freight shipping contract. It discounts my freight costs ~90%. For anyone without a business and no contract they’re happy to charge you 10x more they need to. They profit off the price they charge me, they rake you over the coals because they can. If they have more opportunities to do that, they will.
“The U.S. Postal Service, which has lost more than $100 billion since 2007,”
How much did the military “lose” during the same period? It “lost” $842 billion last year and it’s proposed next year “loss” is $849.8 billion.
It’s not a fucking business with a profit motive, that’s the dumbest way to conceptualize a government.
Edit: 2007-2022 was $11,293.64B, 2023-2024 was $1,624B. The US military budget for the same period USPS cost $100B was $12,917.64 billion dollars.
Edit edit: counted 2022 twice
They can’t even pick a lane. Congress critters “You should act like a business” USPS “We want to get into banking to increase revenue” Congress critters “No.”
We are just beginning to enter the nightmare Twilight Zone of FAFO.
This seems unambiguously up to Congress since a “post office and postal roads” are specifically mentioned as part of Article I of the constitution but who the fuck knows in the Calvinball judicial era?
Just to be clear, it says, “may” setup a post office not “shall” and some FedEx executive with a briefcase full of cash could probably convince at least 4 SCOTUS judges to vote for something. But Jeff Bezos and whoever owns the greeting card industry — Hallmark, I guess — might have larger briefcases of cash so we’ll see who wins. (Not us. We’re losing either way. But Amazon vs. FedEx and every company that has to mail records by law — health insurance and banks probably being the big ones — means nothing is guaranteed and it’ll take decades of court cases to sort out.)
The qons are getting revved up for the looting and the pillaging.
Remember to keep that Samuel L. Jackson clip ready when the dumbasses start complaining about what they FUCKING VOTED FOR.
I’ll be forced to vote in person if that happens (If voting even matters at that point). Fuckity fuck.
Would be a shame if a strike happened and people had to rely on expensive private shipping companies.
