• takeda@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    Don’t know any nation that does, but also US already has FedEx, UPS, DHL and others. They could deliver letters if they wanted, but they don’t think that’s profitable.

    The privatization looks like it’s essentially stealing all assets USPS has.

    BTW there are protests about it https://nalc.org/march23 I recommend to attend them.

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      5 days ago

      So there is a little bit of nuance. They could deliver letters, but they wouldn’t have legal access to mailboxes… Which is a pretty big hinderance.

      Not saying I disagree, just that it’s one edge USPS has verse their massive mandate.

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        5 days ago

        Congress could easily pass a law giving them access instead privatizing.

        Actually it looks like the private delivery companies is they could they would prefer USPS do the last mile delivery and in fact they do that for the cheaper offerings.

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          4 days ago

          Congress has a hard time passing legislation. Doing so would effectively kill USPS anyway. There is no way they could compete with their mandates.

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            4 days ago

            No they don’t, they passed several they just chose not to interfere with whatever trump is doing.