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The Postal Service is a service.
Just because it's a service doesn't make the comment you are replying to any less correct. Cancelling inbound chinese shipments is negatively affecting quality of service, NOT revenue
Just because it's a service doesn't mean it has to operate at a loss. Water is a service too, but you can't bankrupt the water company by using 300x as much water.
Here’s a crazy take, maybe water shouldn’t be privately owned.
Whether it's public or private has no real bearing on my point though. Water consumption is priced to cover the cost of delivering the water. That isn't the case in international shipping, the more packages from China for the USPS, the more money they lose.
Since the Postal Reorganization Act came into effect in 1971, the USPS has been mandated to be self-financing and rely solely on revenue from stamps and package deliveries to support itself. In 1982, postal stamps were changed to be categorized as products rather than a form of taxation, and since then, the Postal Service has no longer received taxpayer funding.
Indeed. The biggest con of the cons was getting everyone talking about government as if it should model itself after business (with the implicit, built-in assumption that business is an unqualified good, no less, so it's two-fer).
Business are run as private tyrannies. Government should definitely not be operated like a business.
Services can still cost money. Utilities, such as water, cost money but if the government is running them they do not need to produce profit.
Republicans framing the postal service as a failed business venture is purposeful.
We should not be allowing cheap crap that serves no purpose to be a drain on tax dollars lmfao