One of USPS's biggest problems is their requirement to prefund their retirement liabilities instead of a pay as you go scheme like almost every other organization on the planet. This prevented them from reinvesting profits into the business for 11+ years (2006-2017)
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I am actually curious and not being a smart ass, what "serious detrimental costs to American society" do you speak of? |
We may have been spared this whole Armstrong saga if the USPS wasn't looking out for itself by marketing its name in Europe. I assume that was the serious detrimental costs to society he was talking about.
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For real though, junk mail strikes me as the kind of weird social cost that the USPS ignited. Virtually no one wanted unsolicited mail, yet the postal service gave these mailers steep discounts on rates, and expanded their physical and human infrastructure to cope with the increased volume of junk mail. Much like the debate about parcels from China, had the USPS priced junk mail to reflect a natural market rate, it would have kept volumes lower. |
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Another example, I bought some KMC quicklinks from this Amazon seller rated 4.3 out of 5 https://www.amazon.com/KMC-Missing-1...r&pageNumber=2 I had several of them break and, if you read some of the reviews, there is some evidence that they are knockoffs from China. It's debatable as to whether they are counterfeit or not, but I'm just saying that a good seller rating does not necessarily mean that a product they are selling is authentic. |
I don't know much about the junk mail. I don't think anybody forced the post office to do it so I would imagine they made money off of the whole thing. I hate junk mail.
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Have you ever worked for the Post Office? Btw the junk mail helps the post office, it's what we used to do on Saturdays. |
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2. I have not worked for the post office. 3. I would assume junk mail would have been a net gain for the post office, or else they wouldn't have done it. I love the post office and I want it to stick around. To do so I think they need the ability to adjust their prices to reflect their operating costs. |
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I gotta say, though, I'm bored with this topic and I'm gonna sit the rest out. |
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Do you post stuff straight from a text book? Almost peed in my pants. |
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May I ask what is so humorous? |
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