” Privatize the Post Office”
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Dump ‘Em !!!!!
Orzag was a key Obama adviser.
The unions are already peeved at Barry for not getting them Card Check.
The unions and Orzag are in direct opposition on this.
Barry is counting on union support to drag him over the finish line.
Pass the popcorn, THIS one is gonna get GOOD!
Would that not violate the Postal Clause of the Constitution?
I remember in my basic business class that government bureaucracy could do everything but was the least efficient method. The United States Postal Service, run by cOngress. made some decisions that adversely affected the Post office that they put UPS and FEDX into business. If the fools in congress had not manipulated they system Fedex and UPS profits would still be in the USPS system.
The unions misrepresent USPS’ money problem as Congress created, and therefore Congress can fix with a stroke of a magic wand. Such a simple thing. Close our eyes and imagine $6 billion fixed.
Privatize the schools first!
This is one thing that the federal Government should do. Primarily, IMHO, as an example of how government should not be allowed to do something that private companies can do.
Actually, we *can’t* as a nation privatize the Post Office. But this does not mean that we cannot substantially change its purpose.
In a unique period in history, the US bent over backwards to create one of the oldest treaties that still exist, involving almost every nation in the world. Today it would be impossible to recreate such a treaty.
“Prior to the establishment of the Universal Postal Union, each country had to prepare a separate postal treaty with other nations it wished to carry international mail to or from. To simplify the complexity of this system, the United States called for an International Postal Congress in 1863.”
But the end result is that all international first class mail that flows into and out of the US must be through the Post Office.
Yet this is just a small part of what the Post Office does, and much of the rest is up for grabs, as it were.
One suggestion is to incrementally change the PO, so that it becomes a true “secure mail”. By this I mean they would discontinue carrying all but first class, registered, certified, and to-and-from government mail. Including most packages.
The financial hit of doing this could be made up for to some extent by making the PO a “bonded courier” for shipping valuable items, like cash, gold, silver, gemstones, artworks, etc., in a high security manner.
Such items would have to be assessed before shipment, and be put in sealed containers with 100% insurance. It would move by armored cars and other secure shipping.
Likewise, the PO could be used as process servers, and any number of other high value services.