USPS being privatized?

[txentosupply]

And who didn't see this coming? Here's a link to a CNN story explaining what they are up to.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/usps-postal-service-agrees-work-with-doge/index.html

[roccotacodad54]

   Yes sometimes I get wound up thinking about alot of things I read or hear. If I stop and think about it, most of it doesn't affect my life in porportion to how it's presented to me by whatever media source.

           A grain of salt..........

[fbusoni]

@txentosupply 

There is nothing coming to see.  

Take a few hours to read the thicket of laws governing the operation of USPS.

USPS will never be privatized (at least not fully) because it fulfills a vital national security function and by law must be affordable and available to every American citizen.  "Privatization" by definition means a focus on  profits and shareholders and not customers -- which is antithetical to everything USPS represents.

Agreeing to "work with DOGE" does not translate into privatization.

Neither does USPS integration (in some manner) with the Department of Commerce. 

[fbusoni]

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@gurlcat wrote:

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@mommaknows wrote:

Definitely, but when you have no sway in the outcome it becomes an exercise in futility and a waste of time.

Clearly,  just my opinion.  🫣We all know what people say about  opinions 🙄 

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I do understand that.  My sort-of New Year Resolution was to stop following news for the very reason you cite, nothing I can do about bad things happening, and spending so much time just reading and watching it has only wasted countless thousands of hours I could have spent doing something else. 

That said, I have a real soft spot for the USPS.  It's not only a vital part of my survival but one of the very few things that makes gives me that warm and fuzzy American patriotism feeling.  It's like no other postal delivery in the world, and so many people don't even know that. 

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Agree with you about USPS -- it is regarded by a vast majority of Americans as a national treasure of sorts.    Certainly Congress regarded it so when the laws governing the operations of USPS were prepared.

I am all in favor of removing inefficiencies in any USG bureaucracy.  But suspect that it will be next to impossible to change those laws.  Which is a good thing.  

[agun2355]

It looks to me like USPS performance is deliberately being sabotaged by extreme under-staffing. Wait times at my local post office are routinely between 30 and 40 minutes. One person working the counter is now standard. The other day I went there and there was one person working the counter and two groups of people seeking passports ahead of me. I left and was lucky to find a smaller PO with no line. There also seems to be a sharp uptick in late and mis-shipped packages.

[m60driver]

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@oldwestgold wrote:

Fun fact - The USPS has been in the hole for decades. At least since 1979. Both parties own the problems. Nice try though.

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USPS may have been  a bit in the hole in 1979 but it was only after they forced USPS to prefund retirement accounts, unlike any other government agency, that caused a crisis.  Although yes, to a small extent both parties own the problem.  Either way, if they privatize USPS rural residents will suffer the most as daily delivery will no longer be "efficient".  By the way, I don't have a problem with USPS having a slight deficit subsidized by "we the people" if it helps those same rural residents.  We already subsidize rural roads and electric grids.

[m60driver]

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@selsa84 wrote:

At least CNN did cover the story about Trumps spiritual advisor being arrested for lewd acts with a child yesterday. Betcha Fox and Oan did run that. 

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I did have to Google that one and it was a former spiritual advisor, a pastor in Texas.  Why am I not in the least surprised?