Posted on 08/03/2013 2:18:28 PM PDT by Libloather
Edited on 08/03/2013 2:31:03 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
If the Post Office is allowed to ship alcohol, then most of the anti-brewing and anti-distilling laws need to be repealed as well.
Right now, there are some sweet column stills for sale that can produce very high quality product, as well as herbal extracts, which have all kinds of uses, including flavoring alcohol, beverages, and medicinal use. They can also be used to create fuel alcohol.
In 300 years they’ll be out of the red! /sarc.
They have to scan it first and send to the NDA or whomever it is that now stores all our information, then they will fold, spindle and mutilate it.
The government wants to know everything you say, write, buy, sell or do. So they have your phones, emails, internet tracking, credit and debit card usage, pictures of correspondence you send and receive, your car’s black box to tell where you’ve been and when and how you drove, smart meters to watch what you turn off and on in your home-a/c up, lights off, you must be going to bed-, and now what you are getting from private shippers. Have I left anything out?
The Postal Service doesn't get a penny of tax money. Why stop it from increasing revenue?
The USPS may not get a LOT of money from the taxpayer, but it DOES get some, and it DOES have powers that other businesses don't have:
All of which are typical functions and powers of a private business. However, unlike other private businesses, the Postal Service is exempt from paying federal taxes. USPS can borrow money at discounted rates, and can condemn and acquire private property under governmental rights of eminent domain.
The USPS does get some taxpayer support. Around $96 million is budgeted annually by Congress for the "Postal Service Fund." These funds are used to compensate USPS for postage-free mailing for all legally blind persons and for mail-in election ballots sent from US citizens living overseas. A portion of the funds also pays USPS for providing address information to state and local child support enforcement agencies.
Under federal law, only the Postal Service can handle or charge postage for handling letters. Despite this virtual monopoly worth some $45 billion a year, the law merely requires the Postal Service to remain "revenue-neutral," neither making a profit or suffering a loss.
source: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/consumerawareness/a/uspsabout.htm
What if FEDEX or UPS didn't have to pay federal taxes? What if couriers and delivery companies could borrow money at discounted rates or just acquire property at their whim?
The fact is, there is not a single problem with the delivery of alcoholic beverages throughout this nation...there is NO crisis. There is plenty of competition in that regard without the need for an agency with SPECIAL powers like the Postal Service getting its fingers into the pie.
Heck, it cannot break even with the monopoly it CURRENTLY enjoys--why should we allow it to take business away from the private sector that is already suffering?
Lot of employees gonna be yelled at, but never fired, for drinking the mail.
I am sure there are thieves at Fedex and UPS. The difference is, if they get caught they get fired.
Well, I'm not going to die on this hill, but the $5 billion the USPS is required to pre-pay annually for future employee health-care costs [something which no other governmental agency and no private business is required to do] would instantly make it close breaking even.
In the private sector any defined benefit plan has to use a government mandated process of paying up all benefits annually.
Corporations just don’t use defined benefit anymore, because they figured out its a stupid idea.
Isn’t that what killed GM?
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