# Cutting postal service by a day or two: So what? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [January 29, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-postal-service-by-a-day-or-two-so-what/483504 "2009-01-29T04:17:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 77
**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-postal-service-by-a-day-or-two-so-what/483504/77 "2009-01-31T22:32:19Z")
> [@BrightNShiny](#): > > No, it seems you can’t even look up a few posts to read the thread. It is customary and polite to quote the post you are responding to rather than make people read the whole thread and guess. But hey, I guess manners are not your forte. > [@BrightNShiny](#): > > Here’s Rand Rover proposing eliminating the postal service in post #41: > > > [@](#): > > > > Originally Posted by Rand Rover > > I wish they’d cut service to zero days a week. It’s ridiculous that the government loses money every year doing something that should so obviously be done by the private sector. The premise is faulty. The government loses no money as the USPS is self-financing. I do not know how that affects **Rand Rover** ’s position but you can see why it is necesary to know what you are responding to. It seems to me more defending privatization than disappearance, but, never mind. > [@BrightNShiny](#): > > Here’s Musicat advocating full privitization in post #48: > > > [@](#): > > > > So is food, but I don’t rely on the government to supply it. Look at Russia, where they did.There’s nothing about a private company that requires the pricing scheme you propose nor an increase in overall cost to the customer. The whole point of privatization is to reduce costs, not increse them. Again, privatization is not elimination. If you quote the post we know what you are responding to and we have the necessary context. > [@BrightNShiny](#): > > And here you are in post #52: > > Now, I realize this statement is not serious (although given the nuttiness of you’re posts directed at me, I’m not sure). But why would you put a statement like this in a thread in which “no one is considering eliminating the USPS”? Who is this statement directed to then? Why is it ok for you to discuss eliminating the postal service, but it’s not okay for anyone else to? There aren’t even enough :rolleyes: to discuss how silly your posts are. No, as very clearly stated in the OP, > [@](#): > > the United States Postal Service is talking about cutting mail deliveries by one day a week due to plunging demand. At the present time there is no talk and no chance of it disappearing. You need not worry. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cutting-postal-service-by-a-day-or-two-so-what/483504)._