RE: U.S. Postal Service Planning Major Cuts
December 5, 2011 at 8:41 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2011 at 8:47 pm by reverendjeremiah.)
(December 5, 2011 at 5:41 pm)Chuck Wrote:(December 5, 2011 at 5:18 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: Yeah..we should get rid of the postal service and replace it with a private organization that will eventually create a monopoly and charge us outrageous prices to move postage..because if it isnt run by a private company, then it isnt run right. Period.
Haven't tried email?
If there are multiple competing private parcel delivery services, why would the private postage delivery service be a monopoly?
I think written letters and other informational postage is already largely superceded by e-mail and on-line services, and will eventually be 99% superceded by those. There would simply not be the volume of traffic available to support any postage service at present rate and service level. Eventually, what is left of the postal service will literally just be an insured parcel service. Only those things which absolutely requires the delivery of a physical article will need to be sent by non-electronic means, and then what is left of the postal service had better offer something more competitive than Fedex or UPS if it were to have any traffic at all.
I can have my new microphone sets emailed?
Who said there would be multiple companies competing? Is that somehow mandatory?
Care to give me a guarentee on your life that it would be multiple competing companies, instead of 2 companies who dont really compete against each other, but both raise their prices pretty much equally? Make me a guarentee that several companies will be competing and the benefits be passed down to my family.
Quite frankly I have NEVER believed nor fallen for that "competing companies are good for consumers" bullshit line. There are so many things wrong in that line of thinking....sure...fast food chains compete. Do gas stations compete? Nope. A hand full of pennies difference isnt shit to me. Do convenience stores compete? Nope, their prices are the same as the others. How about grocery stores, do they compete? Nope, all of their prices are pretty much the same as the others.
Care to explain?
