I explicitly told you what I meant, so I'm not sure why you are surprised.
Your explicit retort was stupid, I'll provide statistical information this time.
Yep, that's what I said. What part of that do you take issue with?
The fact that you like cheap mail but forget at what cost is disturbing.
It is a disgusting to point a gun at someone and force them to do what you want. Populism is an uneducated economic philosophy, and this is what you support.
Sorry, but 'you made a stupid post' isn't an argument. It's just a stupid post. See, I can do that too.
You support a bankrupt institution, I support the world champs of their field. Yeah your position looks pretty stupid.
It's not a business. Do you not understand the difference between government and business?
The USPS makes it illegal to compete against it, thereby killing real BUSINESSES that could do much better. Local private wagon riders used to haul mail to remote areas. Bruh.
Ok, you assert postal employees are overpaid. What's your evidence?
barfo
http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/07/postal-service-stuck-in-the-middle
"Largely as a response to the exorbitant cost of postage in the early 1800s, Congress standardized stamp prices in 1845 at 5 cents for a local letter and 10 cents for one addressed more than 300 miles away.
If we had allowed prices to increase with inflation, it would cost $1.19 to send a first-class letter; $2.38 if it were traveling more than 300 miles. Instead, it costs 46 cents flat.
Congress also mandates that the USPS service all areas of the country once per day—even the rural counties that are a perennially money-losing proposition.
The federal government faces a choice: relinquish control of the USPS and allow it to function as other, less dysfunctional companies do, or just admit that this is a money-losing pet project and start shoveling taxpayer cash directly into the Post Office's coffers."
'"Costs, losses, and debts rose as the volume of mail continued a decline that began in the middle of the last decade. Now the USPS is warning that without help from Congress, it will run out of money by the end of October.
In reason’s May 1991 issue, Carolyn Lochhead explored the postal service’s rising prices, its spiraling labor costs, and delivery trends that were threatening the system’s monopoly. In “The Superior Mail,” Lochhead wrote, “Labor costs at the Postal Service have spun out of control. Postal employees, with salaries averaging $42,000 a year with benefits, are among the world’s best-paid semiskilled workers.…By some estimates, labor represents an astonishing 87 percent of Postal Service costs.”
Twenty years later, postal employees make an average of $83,000 in salary and benefits. They still rank among the highest-paid government employees. But the volume of first-class mail delivered by the USPS has dropped 30 percent since its peak in 2001. The volume of all mail handled has dropped 22 percent since 2006.'
Open up and swallow it whole. I love the way you do me.
