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You are making points that seem relevant but aren’t. We don’t want a market normalized mail shipping price, we want a reasonable enough price that allows every
by tehwebguy 6y ago
You are making points that seem relevant but aren’t. We don’t want a market normalized mail shipping price, we want a reasonable enough price that allows every single resident to send and receive mail.
It’s far more important that the lowest income residents can send and receive mail.
Also, the same people who want to privatize USPS are the ones who don’t want subsidies or payments to the poor at all. Killing this would be done in exchange for nothing, not as part of a reform bill that targets help toward those that need it.
- eru 6y agoJust give the lowest income residents some money. They can use that to purchase mail delivery services on the market. (Or purchase other things they might like better.)
- tehwebguy 6y agoHow would it help to throw away the benefit of the scale of USPS while driving FedEx & UPS prices through the roof? Would this come with a mandate for the duopoly to service every household in the US? The retail rate for sending a letter via FedEx & UPS is currently over 30 times the retail rate for USPS ($0.55 vs > $20)
- missedthecue 6y agoPoor comparison. FedEx and UPS cannot ship first class mail. It is literally against the law. The USPS has a monopoly on first class mail, no one else can do it, so you cannot compare costs.
- eru 6y agoYes. FedEx is only legally allowed to ship 'extremely urgent mail'. Not regular 'first class mail'. So their costs are going to be higher.
- missedthecue 6y agoSay the stamp costs double and it now costs a dollar to mail an envelope instead of 50 cents. No one is priced out of mailing a letter, and we are in a better position s the net benefit is better off (total cost is lower than the previous total cost)