The Post Office...

[Finshaggy]

So if you haven't heard the USPS is running out of money.
If nothing is done they will go broke, and have to shut down. This could be within five years.
This would mean no more postcards, thank you letters, or anything like that. It would cost $10 flat to FedEx it...And jail will have to start letting people call whoever they want, instead of having a calling list of like 3 people that you have to choose. It would just be cruel and unusual punishment, to not let you write family.


I've got an idea though.
Public Transportation should be going out of business too, because to many people use cars. But they have people paying them for ADVERTISING.
Public buses, or light rails have ads inside, outside, and at the stations.

The post office needs to "Sell Out".
Companies need to start paying to have their logos on stamps, or envelopes. On postal cars, public mailboxes, and the post office itself.

If they advertise for people, they can survive. And companies can advertise like that, instead of sending you so much shitty mail everyday.
Unless congress bails them out...That's another option...

 

[jesus of Cannabis]

they are already broke and out of money. Without the government they would be finished. Much like the car industry in Detroit and the airlines that got bailed out so will the USPS. Let them all go out of business, who sends letters anyways? I get nothing but crap in the mail everyday, fuck em. Car industry as well, fuck em, make something people want and stop with the unions. But thats me, a business person that can smell a bad business model a mile away.

 

[Finshaggy]

It can't just be left to die though.

When I go to jail, I want to be able to send letters for less than $10 a piece.

And there is no other way to get something across the country for the cost of a couple stamps.

 

[jesus of Cannabis]

dont go to jail (duh) lol

or get bubba to let you use his cell phone in his ass or offer to carry it for him if you can use it every month or so

 

[Ringsixty]

Post office needs to be restructure...a.s.a.p

 

[Finshaggy]

dont go to jail (duh) lol

or get bubba to let you use his cell phone in his ass or offer to carry it for him if you can use it every month or so

Not just jail though.
Research chemicals can be sent across the country for the cost of a few dimes right now, and tons of other things that aren't even drug related.
That would all be done without the post office.
You NEVER put ANYTHING in your mailbox...? EVER?

I'm 19 and I mail things...

 

[Fight411]

Thats not a bad idea. It seems almost unamerican that the post office is going down but they're an old business in a new world. I mean shit blockbuster got taken out by a redbox.

 

[alphawolf.hack]

who am i gonna get my seeds from? jk the us postal service is a vital system necessary to the modern world fedex and ups are stealing consumers but oferring lower prices and ect when they should not be allowed to compete with the postal system, they should offer thier services as a contractor for usps and there only be one postal company considering it is a public service. now private couriers and large shipments are the business fedex and ups should be in.

 

[alphawolf.hack]

Thats not a bad idea. It seems almost unamerican that the post office is going down but they're an old business in a new world. I mean shit blockbuster got taken out by a redbox.

blockbuster got killed by netflix and gamefly about 2 years b4 redbox

 

[canndo]

Having a Postal service is mandated by the Constitution. Nothing in the Constitution says it has to turn a profit or even break even.

 

[Finshaggy]

Having a Postal service is mandated by the Constitution. Nothing in the Constitution says it has to turn a profit or even break even.

If it can't be afforded it will go away though.

 

[Parker]

Having a Postal service is mandated by the Constitution. Nothing in the Constitution says it has to turn a profit or even break even.

way to go, someone knows one of the roles of the Federal government. Now only if congress knew.

 

[Canna Sylvan]

The post office needs to die. See, apparently since dogs are not in the oath, postal workers use that excuse all the time. I was at the post office one time. The man in front of me wasn't getting his mail. The postman clerk at the desk told him his dog was seen wandering loose while he wasn't there. The man told clerk he had no dog. The clerk told the man the dog was seen leaving on his driveway, so it was his dog who was loose. The man was so angry he said, your mailman was seen leaving my driveway too, so he must live at my place. The clerk won by saying, "prove it's not your dog."

Fuck the post office. They can throw away the constitution if it means letting the post office go up in flames.

Like finshaggy said, letters need to be sent for less than $10. If there's a need, someone will provide. That's the great thing about capitalism over socialism/fascism/communism, if one service is not done properly and no one likes how it's served, but people want the service, another will provide.

It will be cheaper too. Lysander Spooner proved it already. Plus dogs won't be an excuse. Neither Fedex nor UPS complain about something so bullshit as a tea cup.

 

[squarepush3r]

Post offiec offers a great service, I ship on ebay and use their flat rate envelopes and boxes all the time. However, personal mail is basically all spam mail that my carrier delivers to my house everyday. They should raise prices and get rid of spam mail, and cut their bloated administration. From what I have heard, there is something like 1 managers for every 3 employees or something stupid like that.

 

[NLXSK1]

Well, since the whole government is broke why dont we just sell everything?

The White house could be the "Goldman Sachs" house for a couple million eh?

 

[dtp5150]

yes it is totally bloated with lazy mean people!

so, we need to make junk mail unconstitutional, and therefore SPECIFICALLY define junk mail. Then we might have a chance. I'm pretty sure every citizen in the country hates junk mail.

Or are there really just like massive armys of coupon clipping housewives who will vote to keep junk mail? We would have to educate them that they can opt-in for promotional lists...maybe a one time sort of list.

those flat rate usps boxes are great, even having doubled in price in the last couple years.

 

[Rob Roy]

It can't just be left to die though.

When I go to jail, I want to be able to send letters for less than $10 a piece.

And there is no other way to get something across the country for the cost of a couple stamps.

That cost is merely shifted to other areas and onto other people. The real cost of a letter isn't just the cost of the stamp...think about the retirement of all those government workers...who and how is that subsidized might be the real question.

 

[canndo]

If it can't be afforded it will go away though.

By that notion, if the judiciary becomes "too expensive" it will go away as well? Not likely.

 

[Finshaggy]

By that notion, if the judiciary becomes "too expensive" it will go away as well? Not likely.

Ok,
Well the head of the post office has come out, and said "Without a bailout, we shut down within five years."

He had his people work with Colbert to make some new funny ads, probably actually aimed at the internet.
Maybe it can't happen on paper.

But it's happening in REAL LIFE

 

[Finshaggy]

And the Judicial is one of the three branches of government.


That's different than the post office.

They would have to take out the president, the supreme court, house, and senate all at once.
It's all supposed to be one thing.