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Miss Gayle

The goal in privatizing the USPS is to make sending regular mail unaffordable to the point most communication occurs online, not in real life.

While the public recognizes mail is a service to the public that is not supposed to be for profiteering, the cheeto admin doesn't care that the costs of online services to the poor & elderly are far in excess of sending & receiving mail.

They just want to skim off as much as they can from people.

Link: sherwood.news/business/parcels

Parcels make up over 40% of USPS revenues, but account for just 6% of what the agency actually sends The Postmaster General is stepping away as the (mostly) mail service tries to work out where it stands in 2025. Millie Giles, 3/26/25 As mail’s fallen out of favor — the volume of mail handled by the service has almost halved since 2008 — USPS has become more dependent on its lucrative package business. Indeed, packages accounted for over 40% of its revenue last year, despite making up only 6% of total volumes. Trying to gain ground in the package space by competing with big names like UPSUPS $111.45 (-0.01%), FedExFDX $243.92 (0.11%), and AmazonAMZN $201.31 (0.11%), the latter of which delivered over 9 billion parcels the same or next day alone last year, was always going to be tricky for USPS to deliver. Now, though, it’ll be someone else’s problem.
#USPS#Mail#Economy
Mar 27, 2025, 08:24 PM·Public
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Moss Wizard

@MissGayle Not just to push online, but to force the market to make private company shippers “competitive”, so they can profiteer together.

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S0yMilk Luvly
it's broken .. decoy de joy is out.. so called wh runs it direct. there won't be votes in mail watch.. or they'll bounce to sender like they did BUT same addy UPS got it right* crazy.. usb port things I ordered..
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