If .02 doesn’t do it, then .05 or so.
They are allotting those pensions due to mandates from congress.
We should ensure that everyone has broadband access, but that doesn’t solve all the problems.
You do know that UPS and Fedex turn packages over to USPS for the last mile in many situations. Are you saying that we should get rid of the USPS, and have Fedex and UPS take over those routes that they currently won’t do because they cannot make a profit off them?
In addition to what k9bfriender wrote, e-mail is not secure, and if I got an e-mail purporting to be from the IRS about, say, an audit, I would delete it. Same for any sort of court order, jury duty summons, etc. And, of course, e-mailed ballots would be disastrous.
In addition to what k9bfriender said:
You’d also be cutting all of the Old Order population out of the system entirely.
And I’m not at all sure that effective internet connections to every location in the country, plus supplying devices for all those who don’t have them and replacements whenever they break down/become too obsolete to function, wouldn’t cost a whole lot more than keeping the post office going.
And snail mail is more secure than email, by the very nature of the creature. Somebody has to physically get their hands on each and every piece of physical mail if they want to find out what it says. There is no way to make anything in an internet-connected computer as secure.
Yes, they are allotting them due to congress but I thought it was because they were NOT a government entity and they needed to be self sustaining. If they do go back to being under the government umbrella, what would Congress say about it then, they would then be funding pensions like everyone else, and possibly the onerous 5 billion a year for the ten year period also goes away.
Currently, with the Covid crisis, the USPS is running a surplus of 13 billion. What IS profitable for them that they are able to run a surplus at all? Or is it just pennies that add up to dollars?
Do you mean to tell me that emails that come from the government couldn’t be done securely? I don’t buy it.
No other entity, not private or public, is required to fund 75 years of benefits. They are not supported by congressional spending, but they are affected by congressional decisions.
UPS and Fedex have the option of choosing where to serve. They only do the places that they think will make them a profit. USPS has to serve everyone, which means that the profitable parts of their service subsidize the less profitable, or even the ones that they do for a loss.
No private company is going to have regular routes to rural areas. You will have to pay an exorbitant premium to get anything delivered to rural and out of the way areas.
You don’t think that the govt ever gets hacked? That your email doesn’t get hacked? I get letters from ODJFS and Worker’s Comp and the IRS and other govt entities all the time, which I have to respond to be mail, that would be somewhat problematic to send through email, even if that were more convenient for all involved.
Hell, my landlord is a bit old school, and I have to write him out a check every month and mail it. the .55 for a stamp, or even .60 .75 or so, even a dollar, if that’s what needs be, is far better than paying the $10 or so that FedEx would want for it.
Not to mention the whole reason that this is in the public eye, if not also the reason for the actions of the govt, of mail in voting. I would not trust that to the internet, and I would not trust it to a private company. Would you? How much do you think that it would cost?
It’s not unusual to see stories like this one , where one family will have to pay $32K to get cable service. And why didn’t the cable company already provide service - because apparently it’s not worth it to them to spend 32K to run cables that will connect with six houses at most.
But how many places are there like that and how much will it cost to connect them all ? What about people who don’t want or can’t afford internet access? Are we going to pay for that, since we eliminated snail mail? Are we going to mandate UPS and Fed Ex to deliver to every address, or will they be able to refuse deliveries to places that are too out of the way? It will be a long time before we get rid of snail mail completely - but assuming that UPS and FedEx are willing to deliver to my doctor’s office ( which doesn’t have an online payment option for bills), they will probably charge me ten bucks or so rather than 55 cents.
Of course they can’t; for the same reason we’ll never get rid of antibiotic resistance. Hacking is a continual ongoing race between the hackers and the security people; anything one side can figure out, the other can too.
If you’ve really got to keep it private: don’t put it in a computer.
Sort of a side track… I don’t get mail service. Nor does anyone in the county I work for. Well, there are some gang boxes. Everyone has a USPS box. I also have a UPS box as I don’t ask for UPS/FedX to come to my house. And I have NO desire for the Post Office to try to deliver to me. It would be a giant cluster fuck in the winter.
I pick up mail a few times a month in town. It’s no big deal. That’s the way it’s been since I moved here in 1992. 
Though I totally understand that we can’t get rid of the USPO. I still mail stuff once in a while.
Wasn’t there something about Hillary Clinton and email that answers this question? The Republicans can’t have this both ways.
As it is now, I don’t trust emails farther than they can be thrown.
I mean, I called this a month ago. It was obviously the plan.