Ominous Noise From The Postmaster General

It needs to end. The service is horrendous while they hemorrhage billions of dollars.

Yes, first get ride of all useless mail such a vote by mail, bills and package delivery. If you cannot find what you want locally at a store, you don't need it. If you can't receive your bills or pay your bills on line then you are too poor to live or too stupid to move to an area with internet.

There is no longer a need for mail order. We have many others who can move packages and charge whatever cost they wish. If you cannot afford the cost, then you do not need the item. Likewise if your so stupid to find yourself in a location to which they do not deliver you don't need it or just move.

Those near 700,000 USPS folks can go get real jobs.

Edit:

It was a simple statement. They need to increase borrowing to maintain cash flow since it is restricted by Congress who also raises their own debt limit.

The USPS is a failed enterprise. A formerly great institution driven into the ground by bad decisions and a mission that did not foresee electronic communications.

The National Debt today is just a smidge short of 39 trillion dollars with a current Federal budget deficit of 1.7 trillion dollars.

Borrowing more money isn't going to fix it nor is the Country in a place to keep spending like submariners on port call.

PS: The Debt Clock should be in the corner of every Americans tv, phone and computer screen with no way to disappear it because people are oblivious to the reality of the situation.

The whole system was, and still is, set up around first class mail. Nobody sends letters anymore, which is why the Danish system shut down this year, and it won't be the last. Blaming the USPS because they didn't foresee email is like blaming the buggy companies for not 'foreseeing' the car. Not all will make the transition; such is creative destruction. To reorient the entire network around package delivery would be prohibitively expensive, and this makes even less sense given the private sector options available.

They have an amazing footprint and are a lifeline for rural communities. We just need to collectively decide how much we value that. Serving a lot of those places is (and has always been) a money-losing proposition.

Lots could, in theory, be done with existing resources (maybe time to bring back the US Postal Savings System that the USPOD used to operate?), but the Postal Act of 2006 that Bush signed into law prohibits this and other revenue-raising activities. Very few of those stipulations were rolled back in 2022 as part of the Postal Service Reform Act.

Perhaps Congress should reconsider its purposeful handicapping of the USPS? Would be a great place to start...

Apparently explaining how to help solve the problem is not allowed.

No, outright hate is not allowed. We're done here.