# Let's make up our mind about the  USPS

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-our-mind-about-the-usps/739592>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 6, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-our-mind-about-the-usps/739592 "2015-12-06T03:17:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-our-mind-about-the-usps/739592/61 "2016-01-07T04:56:12Z")

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> [@Typo\_Negative](#):
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> Make it totally tax payer funded. I will pay extra to get hem to STOP DELIVERING TRASH TO MY MAILBOX.
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> I love the USPS. For 50 cents they will take a letter from house to anywhere in the golldanged country! I just hate the bulk mail. Hate it, hate it HATE IT!

I propose a bidding war between the bulk mailers and the bulk mail recipients.

Let’s say you pay five bucks a month to not get any unsolicited second class mail. The bulk mailers can send their crap to everyone who doesn’t pay the five bucks a month. For, say, an extra penny per mailpiece, they get to bypass your 2C block (that’s an extra penny for EVERY mailpiece, not just the ones who paid for the block).

We could tier this pricing system with maybe three tiers of 2C blocking, topping out at ten bucks per month to get a status of inviolability, no matter how much the bulk mailers pay.

I bet in three years the USPS would be buying FedEx. For cash, upfront. 😃

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-make-up-our-mind-about-the-usps/739592/62 "2016-01-07T19:08:51Z")

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> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#):
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> There is, and it’s called ‘business’. My company receives A LOT of mail - somewhere in the neighborhood of 50-60 million pieces per year. That mail has to be processed opened, scanned and set on through the process the same day it is received. Stopping Saturday delivery would mean we would have to process 17% more mail every other day of the week. Only it really doesn’t work that way, we would really get 40% more mail on Mondays, 20% more on Tue, 5% more on Wed and the current normal amount on Thur & Fri.
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> We’ve gone through the planning to try and figure out how we would handle it should we lose the ability to smooth the volume over 6 days, but it ain’t pretty.  
> True, but I wanted it to go across town…

This is quite plagiarizable, for my purposes. Thanks!

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