i don’t totally see a downside of it not existing
They have tried so very hard to defund the constitutionally mandated USPS so many times that they’re forced to take on the extra revenue delivering advertisements.
putina is scum but this is the greatest intelligence coup in world history (so far)
Of course it's not just Trump but all of the enablers and supporters who have themselves given up on our society, and work overtime to pull comforting signals out of the noise of his incoherent ramblings and actions. The best I can tell, the main draw seems to be something like if our country is going into the dustbin of history, then they're at least going to choose who gets to push it in. (in line with more specific narratives that at least some supporters would own up to, like a religious fundamentalist desire for an apocalyptic holy war)
I don't think Biden really undid the America-last saboteurs that Grump installed in his first term, so they've had plenty of time to make themselves at home. The obvious play is to selectively hold back ballots based on the prognostications of the Party's surveillance databases (including voter roll data extorted from states). Presumably even if they're caught, they'll claim federal immunity from state laws about election tampering - the same as they've done in every other instance where they've blatantly attacked states.
So it probably makes sense to show up to the polls in person. If you're worried about possibly facing intimidation from ICE (SS) and the Poor Boys (SA), it makes sense to send in your ballot and then show up in person to the polls anyway to make sure they've got you down as already having voted.
As far as the USPS's problem itself, the obvious answer is to repeal the legislation intended to strangle it with debt, and simply fund it like any other public infrastructure. We don't see articles about highways needing to shutdown because they're unable to take on more debt. Rather we recognize their existence generates diffuse hard-to-account-for value and fund them with public money.
Trouble is that it takes approximately the same amount of labor for you to send me one letter as it does to send me ten. Mail volume being down 47% doesn't appreciably mean less work.
> ...that don't do the job right.
An understandable outcome when operations is forced to trim fat amid a declining customer base despite requiring approximately just as much work to be done. Meaning that fewer workers have to figure out how to do more, and cutting corners is how that gets done.
FedEx's tracking is completely and utterly broken. It's just wrong nearly 100% of the time. FedEx doesn't appear to damage packages much, but the tracking is basically an implementation of Zeno's paradox.
UPS tracking is better than FedEx, but it is very likely to damage your package. I got an Amazon package delivered by UPS today where they had damaged the box so bad it was being completely held up by tape that they had wrapped the box with.
FedEx and UPS are clear examples that the right-wing wanting to kill off USPS because it's "inefficient" is a lie. They want to kill it off because they want FedEx and UPS and other such corporations to make more money and become larger -opolies.
I’ve stopped using UPS except when I absolutely have to. I would say 10-20% of UPS packages have some delivery issue from damaged to lost.
USPS is sitting at 0 packages lost.
