I wish we could just phase out the USPS altogether and make better use of email. Get the big providers on board with some sort of signed delivery and receipt confirmation system, with an optional tie in login.gov identity verification for official matters.
The only mail I've gotten in the last 20 years is spam and receipts from old school companies they refuse to go paperless (usually some form of insurance).
It's such an antiquated, annoying system, and I wish it didn't exist so that agencies and businesses would be forced to use a more modern alternative.
As someone who deals in both the administration of email servers and lives in a country where the postal service was privatized and later shuttered, I can't imagine a more hellish suggestion than this.
The amount of privilege it takes to describe the USPS as an "antiquated annoyance" is incomprehensible. USPS is a literal gift from the gods as far as I'm concerned.
How about make it a publicly traded corporation, like the soviets did during privatization. but require it to stay public, until some other corporation is doing a better job and gets declared the usps, and then make that one stay public…
Unrelated to this, I remember in 2020 there was a lot of controversy about Postmaster General DeJoy being a Trump appointee and how he was going to slow down mail in ballots, etc.
But since DeJoy has stayed as Postmaster General throughout the Biden Administration, does this mean he wasn’t a Trump crony after all, like we were led to believe? Would appreciate if someone has info on this.
Murica!: Where public-private "partnerships", for-profit health insurance, for-profit prisons, and the "invisible hand" of greed are considered beneficial.
What's next? A reversion to for-profit fire rescue services where the firefighter extorts protection money to not light your house on fire?
For profit public company seems more accountable and efficient than a private non profit or a government monopoly.
If a faang got caught building a fire fighting business by doing arson, the stock would take a hit for sure not to mention all the shareholder lawsuits and securities fraud allegations on top of the arson criminal charges…
The problem with private prisons is probably that they are private and not publicly traded corporations.
Insurance works fine as publicly traded corporations.
Insurance doesn’t really make that decision. Doctors do. it they decide to not pay after the procedure, the doctor / hospital can fight it out with the insurer.
In practice government monopolies ration care much more.
This is exactly what I'm asking about. Was that actually true? Where was the proof? I remember reading that he was some evil guy, but clearly he's still there and nobody seemed to care once Biden got into office. So was the fear mostly politically motivated and not actually objectively true?
If he's still doing those things, wouldn't the media care to report about it since we're in another election with the same candidate who everyone was claiming that DeJoy would help out. (this is a genuine question, I don't have an opinion on this)
Others have said that the PMG is not appointed by the President, but the board of governors (who picks the PMG) is appointed by the president. So there is some indirect control.
