[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Why doesn't the USPS reinvent itself into a social media/email site like Facebook? Just let users pay an annual fee and they can get all their mail digitally scanned into a secure email inbox ending in @postoffice.com or something, and keep a social media profile for everything else. Have online bill-pay added as well.

For packages, existing post offices can be converted into package and registered mail centers.

Delivering physical mail is an anachronism.

[PROCON]

Why doesn't the USPS reinvent itself into a social media/email site like Facebook?

Wouldn't that disproportionately hurt the poor?

Typical Republican. </sarc>

[twister881]

Multiple, powerful unions and separate contracts that must be negotiated & administered. Management that can’t make a move without Congressional interference / approval — close unprofitable offices & other facilities, adjust delivery days & times, set rates, etc. Supposedly a semi-private enterprise, but with the jackboot of massive govt. on its neck.

[az_gila]

Why doesn't the USPS reinvent itself into a social media/email site like Facebook? Just let users pay an annual fee and they can get all their mail digitally scanned into a secure email inbox ending in @postoffice.com or something, and keep a social media profile for everything else. Have online bill-pay added as well.

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I think a version was proposed and killed by the PO -

http://www.insidesources.com/outbox-vs-usps-how-the-post-office-killed-digital-mail/

[visualops]

I don’t want anyone scanning my mail.
Many things still need to exist physically and be delivered physically.

[Conservative4Ever]

For those of us who still write old fashioned letters with (gasp) fountain pens on (cover the children’s eyes) fine writing paper, I say let the anachronism continue. Somethings a good thing like letter writing continues because it is a good thing. It has its place. One person...one fountain pen at a time.